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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ahda who wrote (19043)	9/18/2003 4:44:55 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81205

Darleen > Their reach is vast and few question the plight of a people without a land. Yes that's the story --- "people without land for a land without people." Amazing how a simple lie is more acceptable to those who don't think than a complicated truth. To explain this I couldn't find a better quote than this one from Jim Puplava: pushhamburger.com >>>In today's pop culture, there is no right or wrong. There is no such thing as black or white. It has become a colorless world without shape or form, only shades of gray. Many of the things we read or hear aren’t what they seem to be, but are what people want them to be. This is the hour of the present where thinking is dominated by a particular moment in time. The way we think and the views we hold are shaped by images before us. It is an ephemeral world -- one in which whatever is in front of us is of immediate concern. Links between the past, present or future no longer exist. It is a culture that is dominated by hype and emotion and ruled by the crowd. It is devoid of any intellect and reason. In this new Pavlovian environment, we act on emotion, seldom on reason. We live in a world of make believe. In the past, the ability to reason, interpret, and analyze was a natural product of a liberal education. Study of the classics gave us a solid foundation of knowledge and the ability to think. Latin produced a greater understanding of the roots and meaning of our language. The Socratic method of teaching, by using questions and answers, led to greater knowledge and understanding. This classical world is no longer with us. Like its founder, Socrates, it has died, and with it, so has literacy. Socrates was tried for corrupting the minds of the Athenian youth by stimulating them to think. For this crime he was condemned to death. Today, political correctness has become judge and jury of our thoughts. It condemns free thought and along with it, deductive reasoning. It has become the modern version of the inquisition. Its consequence has been the death of literacy.<<< Anyway, the truth about the State of Israel is clearly that if it were not for the extraordinarily powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US Congress, the present debacle in the Mid-East would have been settled long ago.