Dear Mr. Mills: The world JS Mill referred to was one in which authoritarian regimes were conventional. Early modern democracies sharply departed from...
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@xxxxx.xx...
Aug 11, 1999 9:36 pm
What has this to do with Allend?...
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Chuck Salvo
chucks@xxxx.xxxx
Aug 12, 1999 3:10 am
... Christianity ... in ... It may seem that way to you, but the philosopher is not obliged to believe the Christian revelation; if he would be interested in...
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Chuck Salvo
chucks@xxxx.xxxx
Aug 12, 1999 3:10 am
... unexpected. ... eclipse ... am ... time. ... the ... conservative ... I suppose one may hold the opinion that humans are normally so intelligent and...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Aug 12, 1999 5:24 am
In a message dated 8/11/99 4:32:42 PM, srheller@... writes: <<From: "Reid Heller" <srheller@...> Dear Mr. Mills: The world JS Mill referred to was one...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Aug 12, 1999 5:24 am
Claude Caspar wrote: "Let's get real. Allende was murdered by our CIA. Sure, they hired the usual suspects, but it is one of the great crimes of the century...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Aug 12, 1999 5:24 am
John Grant recently asked for the NSC files on Latin America, in response to a post from Kosta Simopoulos, which declared that these files on Bush's dealings...
2941
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Aug 12, 1999 5:24 am
In a message dated 8/10/99 9:40:35 PM, kosta.simopoulos@... writes: <<John Grant writes: " Happy that the commies lost in Latin America" Oh, was...
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@xxxxx.xx...
Aug 12, 1999 12:36 pm
This is really surprising. It is public record that our CIA toppled the elected government of Chile. Not in dispute....
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kosta.simopoulos@xxxx...
Aug 12, 1999 2:20 pm
Clifford Bates writes: " So, Mr. Simopoulos when does America become Imperial? And How? ... Well, I could mention the wars against the Mexicans and the Monroe...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@xxx.xxxx
Aug 12, 1999 2:40 pm
Since your responses are now more those of a psychic than a literary critic (makes me long for the good old days), I'll leave them just lie there. Let me just...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Aug 12, 1999 3:11 pm
... Laughter is the only part of man where pleasure and knowledge merge. The nihlist by definition finds no value or worth in anything, not even in knowledge...
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@xxxxx.xx...
Aug 12, 1999 3:29 pm
Gee, this is very amusing, as if the gladiators became mines- see the great Peter Berger's recent "Redeeming Laughter" chapter 2 for the classical response. I...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Aug 12, 1999 3:47 pm
... If they laugh, then they care. A nihilist is self-negating and cannot care for anything, least of all in his own laughter. Best regards, Kalev Pehme...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@xxx.xxxx
Aug 12, 1999 3:56 pm
Laughter needs caring? No more than does despairing need caring. Caring is a political-moral passion totally silenced by a nihilist intellect. Neither the...
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@xxxxx.xx...
Aug 12, 1999 3:58 pm
Kalev, What right do you have to equate caring & laughter?...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins@xxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 12, 1999 4:05 pm
Dear Kalev, ... Must the nihilist, then, be depressed? I thought that the nihilistic position was more a product of thought, a conclusion of thought, than an ...
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John Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
Aug 12, 1999 3:55 pm
Allende was plunging his country into economic chaos and civil war-there is no doubt about that. He was working with communists (particularly in the labor...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:04 pm
... It is not an issue of right. It is an issue of knowledge and plesaure. Best regards, Kalev Pehme...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Aug 12, 1999 3:58 pm
O.k.-could you produce any evidence about this? And as I said above, most of the world has forgotten about it-some judges in England and Spain...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Aug 12, 1999 3:58 pm
I'm sure it is. Best, John Grant...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:05 pm
... Nonsense. One cares for one's children, one's wife. What has this to do with the political moral? You are joking, of course. Best regards, Kalev Pehme...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:08 pm
There is no excuse for publicly murdering the elected president of a republic, sorry. You woudlnt obey orders like that would you Mr.Grant? regards, kosta...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:06 pm
Since some people will undoubtedly die every day in odd circumstances (there are 5 billion of us) you really can't go wrong in explaining deaths this way. But...
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:22 pm
Grant, this is the real world and you are an imbecile. We overthrew an elected democratic government. Now, your values are clear and explains your attachment...
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:25 pm
But dear wise sage, Kalev, why be so prescriptive? Some may laugh for no other reason than their name is Zarathustra....
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Michael Mills
mills@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:27 pm
... Mr. Wenger has exactly understood my point, and I am grateful. I did not even commit myself to agreeing with JS Mill [no relation so far as I am aware],...
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:31 pm
No, world has not forgot, only those whom history will bury....
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Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:35 pm
Allende's moving final speech, part of a radio address aired just before the presidential palace was attacked, expressed his ideals but underlined his failure:...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:40 pm
... Please note what I said, as it is a point Mr. Salvo, for example, grasped immediately. ... Best regards, Kalev Pehme...
