Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 10:03:20 -0800 (PST)
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re: Smirking at Nihilism


I'll leave it to the list to decide who is posting the mountains of drivel here.

Paul S. Rhodes wrote:

>  My thanks to Yair Mahalalel for the support, although I must point out
>that I do not know that my faith is demonstrably false as Yair Mahalalel
>suggests.  In fact, I believe it to be true, although not demonstrably.
>  Mr. Callihan is wrong that I do not want a straight answer.  If such
>actions as the T4 Operation, the Endloesung, the Mei Lei (sp.?) massacre,
>the slaughter in Burundi and Rwanda, the Inquisition among countless others
>are not evil, then I want to know what they are.  Tell me, Mr. Callihan,
>was Crassus' slaughter of a thousand slaves on the Appian Way evil or an
>instance of Master Morality.
>  To call all this slaughter, all this suffering inflicted upon defenseless
>innocents for the sadistic pleasures of Masters a "Complementarfaerbe"
>(Nietzsche's foppish definition of "schlecht") simply is an irresponsible
>act of a superficial dandy.  One does not deal with problem of evil by
>denying it.  It is real, banal or no.  Circumspice.  One does not deal with
>it either by calling it a Complementary Color.  I don't think Kafka's
>sisters experienced Auschwitz as a Complementary Color.
>  Mr. Callihan, praytell, how can you categorically reject anything?  A
>categorical rejection is absolutist, don't you know, and your own
>philosophy (if one can call it that) bars you from any absolutist
>stance--absolutely, I might add.  (you cannot twist free of that
>performative contradiction, nya nya na nya nya).
>Paul S. Rhodes
>
>N.B.  That Mr. Callihan persists in addressing me by my first name does not
>mean  he is a friend or close associate of mine.
>
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>My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
>To children ardent for some desperate glory
>The old Lie:  Dulce et decorum est
>Pro patria mori.
>                              --Wilfred Owen
>
>Patriotism is the last refuge of a scroundel.
>                              --Samuel Johnson
>
>Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.
>                              --Al Franken
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