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Can someone please repost this thread into the "Theories of History" forum? I really like that thread (it's one of my favorites), and I would like to contribute more to it.
Here's the link to the thread on the old forum
Thanks!
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Unfortunately since I don’t have the 4T forum database the only way I have to move old threads is to cut and paste the text, there’s nothing I can do that you can’t. If I have time I’ll do that, but I’m still working on getting this website up and getting the threads I want saved. John Xenakis has said that he will migrate threads to his message board if you ask him.
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I saw a request for "Obituaries". Those go back to Johnny Carson, who died in 2005. We have had everything from Margaret Thatcher to "Socks" (a pet of the Clinton family during its time in the White House). With me involved, not all of them are respectful (you probably saw the obituary that I had on the late and unlamented "Purple Witch" of the old East Germany, Margot Honecker). That said, I have put in people as famous as Ted Kennedy and Andy Griffith and someone as obscure as a near-neighbor of ours who may have been one of the last living people to remember Nicholas II, Tsar of all the Russias, as her ruler as a child. We have entertainers, sports stars, authors, musicians, politicians, entrepreneurs, academics, artists -- and out-and-out criminals.
Yes, Chemical Ali is significant, however disgusting were his genocidal crimes. Bad people make history, too.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
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(05-09-2016, 11:36 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I saw a request for "Obituaries". Those go back to Johnny Carson, who died in 2005. We have had everything from Margaret Thatcher to "Socks" (a pet of the Clinton family during its time in the White House). With me involved, not all of them are respectful (you probably saw the obituary that I had on the late and unlamented "Purple Witch" of the old East Germany, Margot Honecker). That said, I have put in people as famous as Ted Kennedy and Andy Griffith and someone as obscure as a near-neighbor of ours who may have been one of the last living people to remember Nicholas II, Tsar of all the Russias, as her ruler as a child. We have entertainers, sports stars, authors, musicians, politicians, entrepreneurs, academics, artists -- and out-and-out criminals.
Yes, Chemical Ali is significant, however disgusting were his genocidal crimes. Bad people make history, too.
Bad people make a lot of history and we should pay close attention to minimize repeat performances.
… whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Phil 4:8 (ESV)
