Still receiving email notifications of additions to this thread, I’ve decided to take a brief break from my disappointingly brief hiatus (believe me, it disappoints me as well) to address the not-so-subtle attack against me by the poster known as “chosen people”.
The point I would like to make is that going off on an hysterical, sarcastic tirade, the aim of which is to lambast my opinions, does not constitute a legitimate address of my statements. It only serves to illustrate that you are (a) incapable of doing so directly, (b) found that doing so directly would be too cumbersome, due perhaps to laziness, or (c) are unworthy of being taken seriously, preferring comedy to serious discussion.
His post also illustrates how truth can be masked by hysterical falsities, intending to make the gullible reader dismiss any truth contained in the statement outright and altogether.
Example 1: Lenin and Stalin were Jews.
Truth: Stalin was not a Jew, but Lenin was. Furthermore Karl Marx was a Jew. Even further, some 450 of 500 high officials of the early communist government were Jews, according to a book published around that time entitled The Last Days of the Romanoffs, published in 1920 by a Russian correspondent to the London Times. As I said earlier, according to my best recollection, some less than 1% of the Russian population at that time were Jews.
Example 2: Freud was a Jew and invented sexual promiscuity.
Truth: Now, it is plainly obvious that Freud did not invent sexual promiscuity, but he was a Jew. And he was intensely atheistic.
“Religion, Freud believed, was an expression of underlying psychological neuroses and distress. At various points in his writings, he suggested that religion was an attempt to control the Oedipal complex, a means of giving structure to social groups, wish fulfillment, an infantile delusion, and an attempt to control the outside world.”
source:
psychology.about.com/od/sigmundfreud/p/freud_religion.htm
Freudian psychology, according to Fulton J. Sheen in a Time article from Aug. 04, 1947, is “bootleg philosophy.”
It is important to understand why this statement was made about the man’s work, but no one will ever be persuaded to do so with comedians like “chosen people” making light of the whole thing.
I could go on, addressing each hysterical statement made in the tirade individually, but such an exercise would be almost as pointless as the original tirade itself. Suffice it to say that I am disappointed that posts of that kind pass for intelligent discussion around here.