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737Yes. I was also thinking something like "The crux." There is a point ione_less-5/5/2003
736The Point of Despair? Deciding that there is no resolution, and that one can onlNeocon-5/1/2003
735Me too if you want to define it that way. I took pains to define it for you in aone_less-4/30/2003
734I have to wrap things up, so I will come back to this tomorrow. I will say that Neocon-4/30/2003
733<i>"So, finally, you have lost me......"</i> Well I hate one_less-4/30/2003
732This is the sort of thing that loses me: you assert that a first strike gets theNeocon-4/30/2003
731Yes, it almost always does. Exceptions would be like the Jerry Springer show. Onone_less-4/30/2003
730Tension does not necessarily tend towards a "breaking point", which suNeocon-4/30/2003
729The topic from the start was a question. At what point is unprovoked aggression one_less-4/30/2003
728Maybe you have lost me. I was not sure what you were getting at from the start.Neocon-4/30/2003
727Ughh ya lost me. We were talking about tension and its reference to breaking poione_less-4/30/2003
726That may sometimes be useful. But so might demonstrating that that there is 85% Neocon-4/30/2003
725If a topic is truly interesting, it need not be adversarial at all. Instead, theNeocon-4/30/2003
724<i>"not from extraneous antagonism......"</i> If you meanone_less-4/30/2003
723<i>"I mean that one need not be antagonistic in the search for truth,one_less-4/30/2003
722All I am saying is that the degree of tension should mainly arise from the conflNeocon-4/30/2003
721Jerry Springer is about the achieving the breaking point. Blowing things up, regone_less-4/30/2003
720I get something out of Dostoyevsky, not so much out of Jerry Springer. Yes, we hNeocon-4/30/2003
719<i>"It is not evident that exacerbating tension is useful, especiallyone_less-4/30/2003
718In many instances the only way to advance with a discussion is to examine the coNeocon-4/30/2003
717I am pushing to return the discussion in the direction of original thread designone_less-4/30/2003
716But if Iraq claimed that against Kuwait?? Who is the judge?The Philosopher-4/29/2003
715Here is the measure neo gave... <i>"and that efforts to ameliorate mone_less-4/29/2003
714I think the problem is that, for example, Iraq probably could have found some baThe Philosopher-4/29/2003
713<i>"One has to show that there has been exacerbation of the tension, one_less-4/29/2003
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