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Education and culture (Was Re: "Abductions" DO NOT exist :They are misinterpreted sleep phenomena)

F. Frank LeFever flefever at ix.netcom.com
Wed Apr 15 18:20:58 EST 1998


I have colleagues and friends in the Netherlands, and have visted
there.  I respect your culture.  Please respect the neuroscience
community and remove bionet.neeuroscience from the long list of
addresses at the heading before responding again to this line of
discussion--or any other discussion which crowds out neurosciencde
discussion.

F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
New York Neuropsychology Group





In <3532E003.8C25BE7A at no.spam.stormtech.com> Pepijn Schmitz
<pschmitz at no.spam.stormtech.com> writes: 
>
>Red at Pantheon.Global wrote:
>
>> Pepijn Schmitz <pschmitz at no.spam.stormtech.com> wrote:
>> >Red at Pantheon.Global wrote:
>> >> Or because Americans are the most advanced culture on earth, so
the
>> >> aliens would naturally be most interested in us.
>> >
>> >'The most advanced culture on earth'?! Ha! Define advanced...
>> >
>> >Heard of any eleven year olds shooting up their classmates in
Europe
>> >recently? There's American culture for you!
>> >
>> >Pepijn
>>
>> So, is Pepijn really your name. What culture you from?
>
>Yes it is. I'm from the Netherlands. Why?
>
>> The truth is that every power will be used for good or bad. Pointing
out
>> the bad uses does not invalidate the power.
>
>What are you on about now? Are you equating culture with power? First
of all:
>that is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time.
>
>Second, it means you're implying two things:
>
>You're saying that other cultures don't have the power to give their
kids
>guns and allow them to go and murder their classmates. That's not
true, other
>cultures certainly have that power, they just _choose_ not to use it
(thank
>God).
>
>And you're saying that it doesn't reflect on a culture if its members
carry
>guns and shoot each other dead by the dozens each day. Surely you
don't mean
>that.
>
>Technologically, the US may be right up there, but culturally speaking
>they're just a few steps out of the dark ages. I'm exagerating a bit
now to
>get my point across, but calling the American culture the 'most
advanced
>culture on earth' is ludicrous.
>
>Pepijn
>
>--
>  Remove the 'no.spam.' from my email adress if you want
>  to reply via email!
>
>




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