What 'is' is

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A Government spokesman today explained this scientific fact regarding recent questions about the presidents claims that we are all one race and one color...When light strikes the surface of a dark colorless surface, the energy is absorbed into the material and causes heat. The heat rises and creates an energy "inverse effect". This of course changes the color dynamic and creates a color reversal rendering the dark surface white.. In other words, black is white!.. I made this up to illustrate how government can spin a story to try to make you believe anything. This story sounds plausible to people who allow themselves to be led by government and the media. To common sense people it sounds like the B.S. it is.

-- citizen (lost@sea.com), August 17, 1999

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You could also call it "Pro"-logic.

-- KoFE (your@town.USA), August 17, 1999.

Good one citizen. In all honesty, we've heard far more ludicrous things from this administration than THAT. There simply is no way of illustrating the stupidity of those who would swallow *anything* said by our 'Worm in Chief'. I occasionally get a flashback of Bill holding his model of the atom (or whatever it was) and playing with it on the steps of his church.....God help us. Just thinking about his lips moving makes me nearly swallow my Skoal, ugh. Every time he touches Chelsea I want to scream, "LOOK OUT". This guy is said to have a 'distinguishing' feature that Paula Jones could identify....a series of 6's perhaps? Maybe it's shaped like a six, depending upon your definition of the number six, if he stood on his head, it would be a nine after all......

Who would have voted for him the second time? People who aren't able to learn from their mistakes? We're in big trouble.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), August 17, 1999.


Thanks to WJC, all I know is 'is' isn't what it was.

-- Nathan (nospam@all.com), August 18, 1999.

Will, someone obviously voted for him a second time. We deserve what we are getting and what we get in the future. Monkey see and monkey do, de javue...suck but don't inhale.

-- not voting (notvoting@notvotingg.com), August 18, 1999.

The concept of race is a dubious one at best, biologically speaking. Genetically, no one is more than 200,000 years distant from someone else's ancestor. Migrations of different waves of people have spread genes every direction in a great mix-match. (Heck, there used to be black people in China before they were exterminated. In Japan there is a small minority with features that are distinctly European, not Asian. In Australia there are natives with blonde hair. Some American Indian tribes have linguistic features which are more in common with Basque than anything else. Most American Blacks are only about 50% West African in heritage due to unsavory consequences of being enslaved...etc. etc.)

But this sheister doesn't tell people the gloriously complicated truth. He wants to simplify it as if it were some kind of koan to lull the people into a state of mindless, blissful wonder. Thank you, Yoda.

He used some bizarre metaphor that really smacks of 1984's "doublethink." This type of absurd relativism that infects our government is no better epitomized than in Clinton's "depends on what 'is' is" remark. A person with this mentality cannot be trusted with a single word he says. Why? If the meaning of "is" is stated to be unclear, then whatever "is" turns out to be is also unclear, mired in circular, self-referential paradox. It's like what happens with lies. Once everybody lies, then language is absolutely meaningless and the whole point of lieing is likewise rendered useless--ie., how can you lie when language itself is destroyed by lies?

That's the mindset held by Clinton and many of his associates. Truth is whatever you want it to be, or rather whatever THEY want it to be. To hell with objectivity, justice, honesty, etc. Fascists. /rant

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), August 18, 1999.



Didn't mean to imply racism. I do believe we are created equeal.

-- citizen (lost@sea.com), August 18, 1999.

Oh please coprolith, rant on some more. You're restoring my blood pressure to a far more normal rate!

:)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), August 18, 1999.


I didn't take it that way at all, citizen.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), August 18, 1999.

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