The Logic Off Topic list

At 6:43 PM +0000 10/17/01, koolmusick@... wrote:
>Tiran wrote:
>>  > > Crash Course on the Arab Israeli Conflict.
>>  > > Here are some conveniently overlooked facts in the current
>Middle East
>>  > > HERE'S THE BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY....
>
>Dennis Gunn wrote:
>>  I would not call it a document exactly it looked to me like a guy
>>  summing up the history of a region as he understood it.
>>  Biased? Perhaps. But not abusive.
>
>Personally, I wasn't so sure about that.
>
>
>>  And he is telling a side that is getting
>>  represented much around here.
>
>That I agree with ... and so I was basically interested in what he had
>to say.
>(Also, I think you accidentally left a 'not' out there!!)

Yes indeedy it was *not* my intention that the word *not*  would 
*not* be included in that sentence because without it, it is *not* 
what I was intending to say.  I was meaning say that side of the 
argument is *not* getting represented much here.


>
>>  If you want to rebut it you aught to
>>  do some digging; and come up with something reasoned
>
>I had thought of discussing some of the points simply because I was
>interested.
>But personally, I did not see how one could conduct a reasoned debate
>when things like this were being said:
>
>
>>  > 6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy
>>  > Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
>???
>
>>  > 7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to
>>  > Jerusalem.
>???

In the context of a rational discussion this stuff is certainly 
totally irrelevant.  After all what rational person would believe the 
creator of a such a large piece of real estate as The Universe and 
holder of the original patents on Light and Cosmological Constants 
etc...  would actually give a shit about which rocky patch of dirt 
some brutal primate chooses to sit on while obsessing about dogma 
having little or nothing to do with said creator?

But on the other hand in the context of *this* conflict, in which 
nothing whatsoever is rational, that stuff does actually seem to 
matter.

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