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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (53327)	11/9/2006 7:13:49 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The most important element in poker is a rigorous and uncompromising HONESTY. Reality must not be evaded or rationalized. It is the same when dealing with scourges which threaten western civilization. They must not be trivialized or misstated. We had our own religious fanaticism centuries back, when the human body was considered irrelevant and therefore, for the sake of the eternal "soul", people gladly tortured "heretics", cut off their tongues, burned them alive, etc. People are so afraid to confront this issue that even the sight of 9/11 is rationalized away as irrelevant, overall. Some people just refuse to believe what is before their eyes. It is too horrific for them to contemplate...