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Re: From another conversation...
Evolution?
Anything left to itself pretty much goes to pot, huh?
Kelvin
--- "Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" <VOGELAP at UCMAIL_UC.EDU>
wrote:
> Another unanswerable truth: Who can deny that murder
> is the defining act of
> our century, as other centuries might have been
> defined by prayer or
> mendicancy? Who can put hand on heart and say that
> the characteristic
> gesture of the twentieth century is not that of one
> person killing another?
> Fifty million dead in the Second World War alone,
> not to mention the Great
> War and all the other wars, civil and international,
> manmade famines,
> individual killings, spouse-murderings, killings of
> strangers, revenge
> killings, race killings, the murders we commit all
> the time, the murder we
> are committing even as we sit here, of indifference
> to those being murdered,
> I could go on. Every murder contains within itself
> all murder; each
> individual act that takes another person's life is
> the microcosm of our
> century, as well as another death to add to the
> total. How can any work of
> art compare with that, or speak to it, or dare to
> exist in the face of it at
> all?
>
> Murder is just a word for nothing else to say.
>
> ---
>
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> Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at
> the University of
> Cincinnati College of Pharmacy
> http://pharmacy.uc.edu
> (513)-558-3784
>
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What if the hokey-pokey really IS what it's all about?!?
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