Realist

Joined

• started 60 topics
• posted 2,905 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Realist

• 
  178

  US Hostage, Paul Johnson, Beheaded

  by DevonMcBride in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/world/meast/06/18/saudi.kidnap/index.html report: u.s. hostage beheaded al arabiya says new video shows killing

  friday, june 18, 2004 posted: 1:38 pm edt (1738 gmt) .

  (cnn) -- an arabic tv news network said friday that american hostage paul johnson jr. has been beheaded by his saudi captors.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  double edge,

  very good idea. now you just have to convince the US oil industry and bush!
• 
  24

  Read These NEWS Headlines LOL IRAQ WWII ........

  by ThiChi in

  1. social
  2. current

  so many people think that we've never been through anything like this before.

  "iraq is horrible and wrong.

  " it's understandable when you look at the press coverage the democrats are getting, talking about this "micromanaging" every little thing that goes wrong.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  chevy,

  stick to what i said ok. wanting back what germany lost after WWI is not understandable in your opinion?
• 
  24

  Read These NEWS Headlines LOL IRAQ WWII ........

  by ThiChi in

  1. social
  2. current

  so many people think that we've never been through anything like this before.

  "iraq is horrible and wrong.

  " it's understandable when you look at the press coverage the democrats are getting, talking about this "micromanaging" every little thing that goes wrong.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  So the systematic extermination of civilians based solely on their religious beliefs in no way means that he wanted to kill all the Jews?

  i would assume about as much as the systematic extermination of german civilians by US and british bombers.
• 
  178

  US Hostage, Paul Johnson, Beheaded

  by DevonMcBride in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/world/meast/06/18/saudi.kidnap/index.html report: u.s. hostage beheaded al arabiya says new video shows killing

  friday, june 18, 2004 posted: 1:38 pm edt (1738 gmt) .

  (cnn) -- an arabic tv news network said friday that american hostage paul johnson jr. has been beheaded by his saudi captors.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  very productive solution.
• 
  24

  Read These NEWS Headlines LOL IRAQ WWII ........

  by ThiChi in

  1. social
  2. current

  so many people think that we've never been through anything like this before.

  "iraq is horrible and wrong.

  " it's understandable when you look at the press coverage the democrats are getting, talking about this "micromanaging" every little thing that goes wrong.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  crazy,

  safe the rethoric for later man!

  a facist would support what the nazis did. i dispise what they did...from the militarism to the concentration camps.

  this does not mean i have to accept every nonsense spouted out about WWII.

  hitler wanted back what germany lost in WWI. quite an understandable standpoint. he possibly also wanted a further expansion to the east (not acceptable but hardly an unprecedented behavior - US expansion in the west, south and overseas, british empire, french empire, russian expansion in the south and west etc. etc. etc.).

  he wanted to exterminate all the Jews, nothing too serious

  possible but not at all proven. the claim is founded on the tesimony of a single person who supposedly overheard the participants of the wannsee conference.
• 
  178

  US Hostage, Paul Johnson, Beheaded

  by DevonMcBride in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/world/meast/06/18/saudi.kidnap/index.html report: u.s. hostage beheaded al arabiya says new video shows killing

  friday, june 18, 2004 posted: 1:38 pm edt (1738 gmt) .

  (cnn) -- an arabic tv news network said friday that american hostage paul johnson jr. has been beheaded by his saudi captors.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  crazy,

  Well since are not going to have their support- screw em

  whats your solution?
• 
  178

  US Hostage, Paul Johnson, Beheaded

  by DevonMcBride in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/world/meast/06/18/saudi.kidnap/index.html report: u.s. hostage beheaded al arabiya says new video shows killing

  friday, june 18, 2004 posted: 1:38 pm edt (1738 gmt) .

  (cnn) -- an arabic tv news network said friday that american hostage paul johnson jr. has been beheaded by his saudi captors.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  yeru,

  Don't you realize this wouldn't happen if the United States made sure there were no poor people in the middle east.

  what the hell happened to you???? did you get enlightened or something???
• 
  24

  Read These NEWS Headlines LOL IRAQ WWII ........

  by ThiChi in

  1. social
  2. current

  so many people think that we've never been through anything like this before.

  "iraq is horrible and wrong.

  " it's understandable when you look at the press coverage the democrats are getting, talking about this "micromanaging" every little thing that goes wrong.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  this comparison as pointed out previously by many is rediculous. germany was a western country with western ethics, believes, tradition, behavior, family structures, high education level, normal religiosity etc.

  besides that germans were tired of 6 years of terror war. there was no support for uprises in the population.

  corvin,

  LOL, didn't the US finally get off their duffs and invade Germany to stop a madman trying to take over the world who was committing mass genocide?

  just to keep it realistic...hitler never wanted to take over the world...neither did hussein..
• 
  75

  I graduate tomorrow!!

  by Leolaia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with my phd!

  finally after all these long years.

  the funny thing tho is that i'm walking through the ceremony, but not getting my diploma... yet.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  pope, what language is this? sounds like something from africa.
• 
  75

  I graduate tomorrow!!

  by Leolaia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with my phd!

  finally after all these long years.

  the funny thing tho is that i'm walking through the ceremony, but not getting my diploma... yet.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Realist

  Hello LEO,
  
  congrats on the exam!
  
  about the hominids...ability to vocalize words arose 200.000 years ago - interesting! ...so that would mean homo sapiens neandertalensis etc. also were perhaps able to speak. as far as i know (i am not an expert on human evolution) it is still not ruled out that todays human races derived from a branch of homo sapiens that mixed with neandertals in europe and other homo species in asia etc. In this case one could assume that some of todays languages are indeed completely unrelated.
  On the other hand, if there was a bottle neck effect at some point in the past with only a view humans surviving then one could assume all languages were derived from whatever this group of people spoke (if this was one group). are you familiar with the 7 woman founded europe hypothesis based on the mitochondrial DNA analysis?
  
  ::Mufwene also argues that since idiolects continue to develop and change throughout a person's lifespan, a linguistic species is rather like a Lamarckian species.
  
  should a human lifespan be of no consequence here? we are talking about the development of word X for instance. Does word X change in a more or less random pattern (something like mutations in the pronounciation of the word)? in this case the development of individual words just like that of individual genes should follow more according to a darwinian pattern than a lamarcian (who suggested for instance that giraffs stretch their necks to reach higher leaves in the tree and then pass this stretched neck onto their offspring) pattern.
  to me it seems the development of languages and their exchange of words should follow the pattern of gene exchange and evolution in bacteria.
  
  in any case, hope you can take a nice vacation now that the exam is over!
  
  best,
  
  realist