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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 08/26/2008 : 06:48:09
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Greetings all,
I've been away--by choice limiting my participation in this and other fora to lurking...
My reason for posting:
On the way to work this AM, whilst listening to Morning Edition, I heard accounts by Ossetians that Georgian soldiers were guilty of heinous atrocities including tearing open a pregnant women's belly.
The concept of this is completely sickening, of course, but I have heard precisely the same atrocity attributed to the Albanian massacre by the Turks in the early 1900's, the Nazis, the Serbs, the Hutus in Rwanda, and also in the current Sudan crisis (my apologies if I have gotten the ethnicities/countries wrong).
Given that heroes/messiahs have common archetypal origin myths that are virtually uniform, regardless of culture, is it possible that stories of atrocities also follow common archetypes. Actually, I am sure that these stories have grown with each re-telling, but has there been serious research into the veracity of these claims?
[Moved to the General Skepticism folder - Dave W.]
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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
727 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 06:49:57 [Permalink]
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| I goofed. Can a Moderator move this topic to the appropriate forum? |
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
"What? Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real [bleep]ing original. And who's gonna give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on that torso LiteBrite?" |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/26/2008 : 07:04:46 [Permalink]
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| Well stories of rape are virtually uniform, you wouldnt disregard those as manufactured. Unfortunately attacking the future soldiers of your enemies is all too common. Hard to say however if this particular story has weight, but targeting prenant women is not uncommon. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Accounts of atrocities?
