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handofdave
handofdave
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Re: When does a sick joke become a holy relic?
Dec 23, 2009, 23:25
Yes, good points.
I have no qualms about indicting the Arab powers for their indifference to the suffering of others, especially their own.

I chafe at the deference shown to the fucking Saudi Royals by my own country.
The Eternal
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Re: When does a sick joke become a holy relic?
Jan 24, 2010, 00:40
I'd love to visit a concentration camp. It must be one of the most moving experiences you can have. So much unnecessary suffering at the hands of madmen.
Jim Tones
Jim Tones
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Re: When does a sick joke become a holy relic?
Jan 24, 2010, 10:47
The Eternal wrote:
I'd love to visit a concentration camp. It must be one of the most moving experiences you can have. So much unnecessary suffering at the hands of madmen.


Oh....hang on...you're being sarcastic, aaaaah right....
ratcni01
ratcni01
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Re: When does a sick joke become a holy relic?
Jan 24, 2010, 12:13
Heh, yeah, oddly expressed. I'd visit one if I were in Poland or wherever, not sure I'd say "I'd love to" tho!

I know there are the memorial/museums in Poland and Germany based at concentration camps, wonder if there are any in South Africa, where we (the brits) invented the idea to keep Boers in - am sure one of the South Africans I worked with would have mentioned it. I suppose we won so this doesn't play such a big part in the history (we) written
Jim Tones
Jim Tones
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Edited Jan 24, 2010, 13:03
Re: When does a sick joke become a holy relic?
Jan 24, 2010, 13:01
ratcni01 wrote:
Heh, yeah, oddly expressed. I'd visit one if I were in Poland or wherever, not sure I'd say "I'd love to" tho!


I thought it was just me then for a minute!

Together with visiting one of the camps, the Yad Veshem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem is a very harrowing experience, I certainly didn't go in there rubbing my hands, thinking-
'wow! this will really blow my head off!'

It's part of history, a very sick part, but history all the same.
When I came out of the museum, quite a few israelis/jewish folk came up to me and thanked me for visiting (I obviously don't look jewish then).
They just want the whole world not to forget.

Later, in the 1990s, the museum had become much larger with lots more archive material from the media etc., plus the fact more info and knowledge has been collected by Mossad over the years.
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