(April 1, 2016 at 11:17 am)Alex K Wrote: Millions were killed in a war that left the country devastated - that's quite the adverse effect. But even before that, they destroyed the scientific and cultural life - Germany was the capital of physics and mathematics well into the 20s and 30s, while Berlin was a true metropolis - and all that went away because of the persecution many suffered. The US inherited all that.You make an interesting point about physics and mathematics. Of course, these will suffer when a megalomaniac uses them for his own purposes to control human behavior.
It took a war to unseat Hitler. Will we let Trump get so powerful that it takes a war to unseat him? Is it possible that because of the way the US economy is so tangled up with world’s economy, especially with our Asian creditors, that this could be a crisis felt far beyond our borders?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
