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1.? Would you hire a death doula?
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
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1.? Would you hire a death doula?
Already have
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
Having grade school students like each others toes
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
That people inherently want to get along with each other
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
General William Westmorland
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
The creation of six new multiethnic countries out of the Ottoman Empire after Wwi
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1.? Would you hire a death doula?
Perhaps in the future, especially if I was living alone.
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
I haven't kept up on fetishes, though there are some strange ones out there.? The character in Pink Flamingos who dressed up as a baby and was obsessed with eggs comes to mind, but that awful movie in the 70s.? Perhaps the people from Mensa who hired the director to give a speech at the keynote event have some lingering issue in that department.
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
That Hitler would be placated and behave if we only hand over the Sudetenland.? The same mistake was made in the 21st century with handing over Crimea to Putin.? Another bad policy assumption was handing over Ukraine's nuclear weapons to Russia when the USSR broke up.? Putin may use those same weapons to conquer Ukraine.
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
It's hard to pick the "most incompetent," but WWI had plenty of examples of incompetent military officers.? There were so many battles in which massed infantry charged machine guns across an open field.? The Japanese hara kiri attacks were also insane, but none of those took casualties in the magnitude of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where the British took something like 62,000 casualties, or at Loos, where the British took almost 60,000 casualties, many by British gas that drifted the wrong way. Russian general Samsonev's?incompetent generalship was described in detail in a book by Solznitsen, but there may be a few ?cases just as bad where no books were written.
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
Probably the nuclear ?arms race after WW2.? The USA had a huge advantage over the Soviets after the war, and yet we ended up with something like 34,000 nuclear warheads, and several close calls where a nuclear war could have destroyed modern civilization.? Nuclear bombers were in the air above the arctic for years in case they needed to bomb the USSR on short notice, and missiles and submarines were likewise always on alert.? In the 70s, solid fuel ICBMs and MIRVs (multiple warheads on each missile) were perfected so that hundreds of cities could be wiped out in a very short time.? The MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) police was aptly named, and I'm surprised that our fears growing up didn't come true.
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On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 3:36?AM mrvnchpmn < chapman@...> wrote:
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1.? Would you hire a death doula?
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
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1.? Would you hire a death doula?
I do not see the need, so probably not. Of course, I worked a couple years of part-time in hospice, so I have some professional background. Death happens. Part of living. The mind clings, but recognizing this for what it is reduces the boogeyman to an everyday level. I will end. Of course, I will not as well and "I" is the same nature as "death."
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
Blank. I do not remember hearing of anything lately. All the ones from more distant stories are all over-reviewed and I have to beg off flogging those dead horses. The human mind is an interesting?phenomenon!
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
Well, maybe the assumption that a little bit more won't make any difference? A little more pollution, a little more crime, one more hit, a few more kids sacrificed to progress or ambition or profits. Make a deal, compromise, lobby, stray far from the original?intent of your policy in the pursuit of assembling support. Just this once, just this one last time, just one more shot or one more score or one more handshake. We can fix it later...it's all for the?greater good.
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
Hitler comes to mind, fortunately for many. Seems like maybe we could find bunches of them and I am not familiar enough with the topic to? register an informed opinion. Let me go Google...
...and I did bump into some humorous results, although many are from outside the timeline of the question:
...and one book on the psychology?of the topic:
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
The war to end all?wars wasn't!
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1.? Would you hire a death doula? No, it’s not something I have any interest in. If its my time to die, its my time to die, I don’t need someone there to calm me down or whatever. I believe I will go to heaven or a positive experience…..but if I’m wrong and I go to hell or a negative experience or dead is dead, well a doula isn’t going to change any of that.
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
I haven’t heard of any recently. I’ve been around long enough to know that any possible thing is a fetish for someone.
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’ll say generally that people assuming that the other side, or that people on both sides in the future will be reasonable, is a bad assumption.
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’m sure there are many contenders though!
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
The establishment of Israel needed to be done differently, in a way that everyone living in that area at that time could be satisfied with. And if such a plan weren’t possible, than the establishment of Israel should have been put on hold until such a plan was possible.
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1.? Would
you hire a death doula?
I might... especially if I don't have any family members around as
my end draws near.
2.? What
is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
None come to mind.
3.? ?What
was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th
century?
That a corporation has the same "rights" as a person
4.? ?Who
was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th
century?
Douglas MacArthur
5.? What
was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
the creation of the state of Israel
Aloha,
Celeste Rogers
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1.? Would you hire a death doula?
No, it’s not something I have any interest in. If its my time to die, its my time to die, I don’t need someone there to calm me down or whatever. I believe I will go to heaven or a positive experience…..but if I’m wrong and I go to hell or a negative experience or dead is dead, well a doula isn’t going to change any of that.
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
I haven’t heard of any recently. I’ve been around long enough to know that any possible thing is a fetish for someone.
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’ll say generally that people assuming that the other side, or that people on both sides in the future will be reasonable, is a bad assumption.
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’m sure there are many contenders though!
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
The establishment of Israel needed to be done differently, in a way that everyone living in that area at that time could be satisfied with. And if such a plan weren’t possible, than the establishment of Israel should have been put on hold until such a plan was possible.
I suspect that the great majority of people have no idea of two important facts - first that the Palestinians had their own state in 1920 that was given away by the British as payoff to a tribe that supported them against the Turks and that the original partition plan gave the Palestinians a lot more land than they are fighting for now - but the surrounding countries decided to eradicate the new Jewish country.
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. I suspect that the great majority of people have no idea of two important facts - first that the Palestinians had their own state in 1920 that was given away by the British as payoff to a tribe that supported them against the Turks and that the original partition plan gave the Palestinians a lot more land than they are fighting for now - but the surrounding countries decided to eradicate the new Jewish country.
Not quite, Marvin. I am guessing, by the Palestinians having their own state you mean Jordan? The British created Jordan by giving 70% of Palestine to the Arabs in 1917. It was and is a "Palestinian state" in the way most people mean that term, a state for the Arabs in Palestine. They had their state first. Also, what the Arabs are fighting for now is not less land than the 1947 partition plan would have given them. They don't want their own state (note that they already have that in Jordan, not to mention Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and a bunch more including their place of origin, the entire Arab peninsula). They don't want a "2-state solution" - they have never ?wanted that, have refused it 5 times. What they want is everything, all of Israel in addition to all those other countries and the land they currently occupy outside Israel. They want to drive the Jewish people into the sea, or slaughter all of them. And then they will continue with their conquest of the rest of the world, which is well underway in Europe and North America as well as the parts of Africa they haven't already occupied.? Pat
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1.? Would you hire a death doula? No, it’s not something I have any interest in. If its my time to die, its my time to die, I don’t need someone there to calm me down or whatever. I believe I will go to heaven or a positive experience…..but if I’m wrong and I go to hell or a negative experience or dead is dead, well a doula isn’t going to change any of that.
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
I haven’t heard of any recently. I’ve been around long enough to know that any possible thing is a fetish for someone.
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’ll say generally that people assuming that the other side, or that people on both sides in the future will be reasonable, is a bad assumption.
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’m sure there are many contenders though!
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
The establishment of Israel needed to be done differently, in a way that everyone living in that area at that time could be satisfied with. And if such a plan weren’t possible, than the establishment of Israel should have been put on hold until such a plan was possible.
I suspect that the great majority of people have no idea of two important facts - first that the Palestinians had their own state in 1920 that was given away by the British as payoff to a tribe that supported them against the Turks and that the original partition plan gave the Palestinians a lot more land than they are fighting for now - but the surrounding countries decided to eradicate the new Jewish country.
Marvin
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On Mar 9, 2024, at 21:50, Pat Trivers <pat_trivers@...> wrote:
? . I suspect that the great majority of people have no idea of two important facts - first that the Palestinians had their own state in 1920 that was given away by the British as payoff to a tribe that supported them against the Turks and that the original partition plan gave the Palestinians a lot more land than they are fighting for now - but the surrounding countries decided to eradicate the new Jewish country.
Not quite, Marvin. I am guessing, by the Palestinians having their own state you mean Jordan? The British created Jordan by giving 70% of Palestine to the Arabs in 1917. It was and is a "Palestinian state" in the way most people mean that term, a state for the Arabs in Palestine. They had their state first. Also, what the Arabs are fighting for now is not less land than the 1947 partition plan would have given them. They don't want their own state (note that they already have that in Jordan, not to mention Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and a bunch more including their place of origin, the entire Arab peninsula). They don't want a "2-state solution" - they have never ?wanted that, have refused it 5 times. What they want is everything, all of Israel in addition to all those other countries and the land they currently occupy outside Israel. They want to drive the Jewish people into the sea, or slaughter all of them. And then they will continue with their conquest of the rest of the world, which is well underway in Europe and North America as well as the parts of Africa they haven't already occupied.? Pat
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From: chapman@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 9th 2024, 03:42 PM
Subject: Re: [M-Powered] Friday Five March 8
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1.? Would you hire a death doula? No, it’s not something I have any interest in. If its my time to die, its my time to die, I don’t need someone there to calm me down or whatever. I believe I will go to heaven or a positive experience…..but if I’m wrong and I go to hell or a negative experience or dead is dead, well a doula isn’t going to change any of that.
2.? What is the strangest fetish you have heard about recently?
I haven’t heard of any recently. I’ve been around long enough to know that any possible thing is a fetish for someone.
3.? ?What was the worst assumption a policy maker made in the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’ll say generally that people assuming that the other side, or that people on both sides in the future will be reasonable, is a bad assumption.
4.? ?Who was the most incompetent military officer of the 20th century?
Not a clue. I’m sure there are many contenders though!
5.? What was the worst geopolitical decision of the 20th century?
The establishment of Israel needed to be done differently, in a way that everyone living in that area at that time could be satisfied with. And if such a plan weren’t possible, than the establishment of Israel should have been put on hold until such a plan was possible.
I suspect that the great majority of people have no idea of two important facts - first that the Palestinians had their own state in 1920 that was given away by the British as payoff to a tribe that supported them against the Turks and that the original partition plan gave the Palestinians a lot more land than they are fighting for now - but the surrounding countries decided to eradicate the new Jewish country.
Marvin
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