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Author Topic: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom  (Read 12491 times)

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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #240 on: January 09, 2011, 12:31:42 pm »

Hitler was insane. We get that. But he wasn't crazy enough to be fanatically brave as indicated by his suicide.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #241 on: January 09, 2011, 12:57:10 pm »

Fanatics don't have to manifest through bravery. Extreme need and abuse of power is just as clear of a sign, which Hitler definately had.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #242 on: January 09, 2011, 12:58:29 pm »

He was a fanatic but he wasn't fanatically brave.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #243 on: January 09, 2011, 01:07:39 pm »

Pretty much. What's your point?
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #244 on: January 09, 2011, 01:13:44 pm »

My point was that he wasn't insane enough to lose a concept of fight or flight. He killed himself so as not to suffer at the hands of most likely torturers.

He was insane but not insane enough to let himself be captured.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #245 on: January 09, 2011, 01:51:34 pm »

Josef Goebbels killed his children because he didn't want them to live in a world without nazism.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #246 on: January 09, 2011, 01:55:11 pm »

Josef Goebbels killed his children because he didn't want them to live in a world without nazism.

Goebels was possibly the most repulsive of all the nazis. Fucking scum.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #247 on: January 09, 2011, 02:05:38 pm »

I don't think it's reasonable to call any of the Nazis(excluding the diagnosed cases) insane. Their worldview and values might have been drastically different from yours, but they never acted irrationally or randomly.
If you want to emphasize your dislike for the ideology they followed, I'm sure there are other ways than attaching every negative adjective in the dictionary.
If nothing else, the insane people might get offended.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #248 on: January 09, 2011, 02:08:14 pm »

I don't think it's reasonable to call any of the Nazis(excluding the diagnosed cases) insane. Their worldview and values might have been drastically different from yours, but they never acted irrationally or randomly.
If you want to emphasize your dislike for the ideology they followed, I'm sure there are other ways than attaching every negative adjective in the dictionary.
If nothing else, the insane people might get offended.

I think they qualify for pretty much every negative adjective available, and then some.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #249 on: January 09, 2011, 02:32:30 pm »

Well, that's essentially as meaningful as saying that they were bad. You can't learn much from the history with this attitude.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #250 on: January 09, 2011, 02:35:21 pm »

The nazi were a pretty big movement, both in Europe and America.
Reducing them to comics book villain is stupid.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #251 on: January 09, 2011, 05:16:13 pm »

oh, I had been reading portions of this thread and a webcomic Ijust discovered when, suddenly, something Magical happened...

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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #252 on: January 15, 2011, 02:09:38 am »

Bleh, Scienctism.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #253 on: January 15, 2011, 12:46:10 pm »

Religion's public enemy number one: Science.
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Re: Religous Viewpoints and Freedom
« Reply #254 on: January 15, 2011, 03:19:12 pm »


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