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Originally posted by KyoZero
Oh I am certainly not denying the holocaust...was terrible and I feel awful for it...
My point was is the testimonies sometimes were lead by
"What happened?"
and the answers would be very long and emotional. With damn good reason too. What his regime did to those people was awful. When I was in high school we had three survivors come to our schol for a talk and some Q and A. One person asked how did it feel. The answer took almost 20 minutes to tell. Emotions took over, tears flowed, and the elaboration was so intricate I could almost feel as if I were there. It was incredible.
Now I am not knocking what happened in the holocaust and I am certainly not trying to compare. What I am saying is using what you just said, I could apply that and say because of how overboard her answer was, the holocaust may have never happened. Now again, I am certain it did and will never argue against it and I am sorry this is such a touchy subject but here's what I am getting at.
The arguments posted in this debate are the following..
1. The interviews and summations were too elaborate and emotional
2. We've never personally seen the nuclear weapons detonated
3. Some of the videos looked faked
Well from this...and please take this with a grain of salt...
1. I've already discussed how elaborate and emotional interviews from the camps were
2. I have never myself witnessed a gas chamber, the camps, or anything of the sort
3. Those videos, while inhuman looked like they could have been reproduced to me. In fact, watching Band of Brothers I've seen video that looked liek it came directly from there, minus the fact that I know the characters played it. The individuals who played the tortured members looked very much like the walking dead.
Like I said, I wholeheartedly believe the holocaust took place and will never make light of it, but if I apply some of the same arguments then frankly to me, the holocaust, the moon landing, the nuclear weapons, WW1....none of it ever happened
-Kyo
Originally posted by violenttorrent
whiterabbit85 You sir, are a troll.
Originally posted by orangetom1999
reply to post by let the reader understand
LTRU,
Goodness me...you are sort of a drama queen..using rationalism to pass your positions. I get this a lot when dealing with gnostics and atheists. No problem.
I'll illustrate for you by what happened. The police ..after arriving..were not interested at all in center mass. They were interested in me going with them to where they had a vehicle fitting the description I gave the 911 operator. To my surprise they were very quick in responding thus indicating me that they have a textbook plan to spread out their people and cars on predetermined routes/areas to get the best coverage about town. I never considered this until this event. No reason to think about it. It was not five minutes after calling the 911 operator before the local police came and wanted me to go with them for an identification out in the field. No mention of the firearm used or questions about it.
IT was only hours later when writing out my statement that the issue came up as to what kind of gun it was..not center mass issues. This never came up until court last Friday. The police only seemed interested in my statement as far as contrasting with the testimony of the people apprehended.
I am glad to hear that you don't have a television. This makes me ask from where did you get this rationalism....emotional type response??
Is to you ...rationalism same as emotional justification..the same as being correct?? Very similar to political tack now days. PC??
I too don't watch reality Television. I watch little television and only the occasional movie. I watch them closely for the fingerprint of the writers, directors and social content...ie..politics/religion.
As to being killed. I have put my life on the line many times for my moneys. Being robbed at gunpoint is to me no different than handling a nuclear fuel cell. No different than going into a torpedo tube to do some work. When you go into a torpedo tube...you'd better know how to check that the safety devices are correctly installed and the hydraulic system shut, isolated, and tagged out. If you don't ..the torpedo tube can close on you and crush you in half or to death. It is just the facts of the trade. Same with a missile tube on a submarine..they close quickly and quietly. You need to know that the safeties are installed and then commit to going inside one to work. You don't pee your pants when you have to do this type of work.
It was the same with a gun pointed in my center mass. Ironically ...these guys were more concerned with me having a gun of my own. Ironic for someone in this kind of trade. Nonetheless...spooking and getting afrighted here will profit one nothing. Disciplined people know this.
Mind you now..this does not make me better than others..but it does make me very different. I don't care for being around and about a bunch of wildlife...when the situation calls for dicipline.
Hope this helps,
Orangetom
[edit on 13-1-2009 by orangetom1999]
I gotta admit tom, you are trying to illicit an emotional response from me by calling me a drama queen are you not?
Please quote my "emotion" filled responses.
I didn't think you had any intentions, I think I was just tired of being attacked that day and let my emotions get to me, forgive me.
Your tactics are really funny to be honest. I really like the "agnostic, atheist" comment. Let me guess, you saw the Jesus on my avatar and thought you would "rile" me up by painting me as something I would not like?
Another one you used that was funny was the voting one in your "counterfeit" spiel, then you proceed to tell me, you don't like to be around the "wildlife", yet you protect them as a specialist by loading rods into slots. They require advanced people to put a stick in a hole? Can't every sailor do that? Isn't that what Bangkok is for?
Originally posted by violenttorrent
jfj You've fallen into a trap. whiterabbit wrote the following to me: "Are you actually mentally disabled or do you just like to appear that way?" I copied and pasted it as follows: "jfj Are you actually mentally disabled or do you just like to appear that way?
" - and you banned it. So whiterabbit can write that directed at me, but if I copy it verbatim and send it back in your direction, my comment is erased.
This is outright proof that you are a shill.
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
At 1:23:04 a.m. the experiment began. The extremely unstable condition of the reactor was not known to the reactor crew. The steam to the turbines was shut off. As the momentum of the turbine generator drove the water pumps, the water flow rate decreased, leading to the formation of steam voids. The control rods that were removed earlier were never fully removed and were still partially in the reactor, preventing the heat from reaching the cooling water. The great rise in temperature resulted in a massive steam build up and, due to the fact that the RBMK type reactors are largely positive void coefficient, the power within the reactor only increased.
As the reactor power increased, so did the neutron generation.
Soon it exceeded what could be absorbed by the xenon poisoning, starting a dangerous cascade.
With the manual and automatic neutron absorbing control rods removed, nothing prevented a runaway reaction.