hate_mail Rhin it's not proper etiquette to begin a letter with a pointing finger. It also carries the consequence of provoking a defensive action from the recipient, however... dear so and so, I really hate it when people say that they will keep in touch and then they don't...like yourself for instance! i would rather you say, 'look rhinna, my wants and needs are more important than anything you might give me, so fuck off bitch!' you may very well have a good excuse. however i'm not accepting any at the moment, save hospitalization or incarceration. if the later is the case then maybe i could suggest a fine law firm...'you fucked up & now your gonna pay law offices'! the fact that i am worrying obviously means nothing. this is too real. do i sound upset to you? you bet your sweet ass i am! who cares anyway, right?! whatever! signed, like you care! p.s. don't even think about it! it's too late! 020306 ... Rhin 'I love you no longer; on the contrary, I detest you. You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all, you do not love your husband; you know the pleasure that your letters give him yet you cannot even manage to write him half a dozen lines, dashed off in a moment! What then do you do all day , Madame? What business is so vital that it robs you of the time to write to your faithful lover? What attachment can be stifling and pushing aside the love, the tender and constant love, which you promised him? Who can this wonderful love be who takes up your every moment, rules your days, and prevents you from devoting your attention to your husband? Beware, Josephine; one fine night the doors will be broken down and there I shall be.' (letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife Josephine - 1797) 021111 ... stork daddy that's awesome 021112 ... tyger *grin* 040109 ... oldephebe Adolf Hiter I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work. [Adolph Hitler, Speech, Reichstag, 1936] There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland. [Message, signed Hitler, painted on walls of concentration camps; Life, August 21, 1939] Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men. [Adolph Hitler, quoted in Lucy Komisar, The New Feminism] Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . we need believing people. [Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordant of 1933] I have followed [the Church] in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it. [Adolf Hitler, from Rauschning, _The Voice of Destruction_, pp. 239-40] My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed. [Adolf Hitler, speech on April 12, 1922, published in My New Order, quoted in Freethought Today April 1990] ________________________________________ ________________________________________ so the above is probably more like hate speech... let me just say that i in no way sanction or have anykind of affinity for the seductive ravings whispered out of hell's heart into Hitler's willing ear. 040308 ... oldephebe any thing by alan sokal w/r/t the whole elevation of the appelation or "acedemic" classification of post-modernism (and it's attendant mastubatory contemplations and cross-discilpinary pollinations and such)to a psuedo-science.... 040308 what's it to you? who go blather from