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- Santhosh CHRiS
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Sometimes I wonder if the youth realizes we should be thankful to peeps as your grandpa who lost a lot of the best years of his live to give us freedom ...
And alas, as usual mankind learned nothing from the past .... alas.
And alas, as usual mankind learned nothing from the past .... alas.
wardrich wrote:The contrasts in personalities will deliver some SERIOUS lulz. I can't wait.
- Santhosh CHRiS
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- Dogbreath
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And nowadays it's pretty popular to deny the holocaust ever happened. My grandpa was a photographer, and took 2 photo albums full of pictures of Dachau. Showed them to me when I was 12 years old visiting him. I've never forgotten those photos, or his stories about the war.dosraider wrote:Sometimes I wonder if the youth realizes we should be thankful to peeps as your grandpa who lost a lot of the best years of his live to give us freedom ...
And alas, as usual mankind learned nothing from the past .... alas.
I imagine in another 30 or 40 years, once everyone who survived the war is dead all our history books will pretend the holocaust never happened, and cover up the uglier parts of the war - it's already happened somewhat here, covering up some of the atrocities the allies committed. (try to find Dresden in an American high school history book, for example) But I'll know it happened, and I'll make sure to tell my kids about it too.
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I find it pretty hard to believe that people could simply forget about a thing such as the holocaust or the atrocities that it identifies to, but alas, I've been seeing that myself a fair bit.
One particular thing that really caught me by surprise.. Some time last year, was briefly in a conversation about war and etcetera with a casual friend of mine, a bit younger than me, and during the conversation, I brought up the holocaust as an example of something, don't remember what exactly, was a while back; Anyhow, one of his friends that was there and listening in at the time, a girl, younger than both of us (around 14-15 I think, didn't know her at all and can't remember), turned around, and in all seriousness, asked "What's a holocaust?"
Took me a moment or two to respond, because I thought she was trying to make a bad joke at first, but she was asking dead seriously. My opinion of her knowledgeability dropped more than a few notches at that moment.
That's about the only first hand experience I've had in proof of that sort of thing, but, I also tend to mostly socialise and associate with people my own age and older. But, you do see it in media and such.
Also, though I somewhat think this is more of using it as a political tool rather than a serious non-knowledge of it, we've seen the leader of Iran and other highly ranked political figures in various countries adamantly claiming the holocaust to be some sort of conspiracy or event that never happened, which, though obviously I wouldn't have any first hand experience in the holocaust, still makes me rather angry.
My grandfather came to Australia as a refugee from the war, and I've got an aunt from his side that would've seen the gas chamber, literally, if rescue had decided to take a minute or two more than they did when storming the place she and others were at.
One particular thing that really caught me by surprise.. Some time last year, was briefly in a conversation about war and etcetera with a casual friend of mine, a bit younger than me, and during the conversation, I brought up the holocaust as an example of something, don't remember what exactly, was a while back; Anyhow, one of his friends that was there and listening in at the time, a girl, younger than both of us (around 14-15 I think, didn't know her at all and can't remember), turned around, and in all seriousness, asked "What's a holocaust?"
Took me a moment or two to respond, because I thought she was trying to make a bad joke at first, but she was asking dead seriously. My opinion of her knowledgeability dropped more than a few notches at that moment.
That's about the only first hand experience I've had in proof of that sort of thing, but, I also tend to mostly socialise and associate with people my own age and older. But, you do see it in media and such.
Also, though I somewhat think this is more of using it as a political tool rather than a serious non-knowledge of it, we've seen the leader of Iran and other highly ranked political figures in various countries adamantly claiming the holocaust to be some sort of conspiracy or event that never happened, which, though obviously I wouldn't have any first hand experience in the holocaust, still makes me rather angry.
My grandfather came to Australia as a refugee from the war, and I've got an aunt from his side that would've seen the gas chamber, literally, if rescue had decided to take a minute or two more than they did when storming the place she and others were at.
- Santhosh CHRiS
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Whilst remembering the past dramas don't forget to think about what's going on in the present ...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/featu ... _2-26.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/featu ... _2-26.html
wardrich wrote:The contrasts in personalities will deliver some SERIOUS lulz. I can't wait.
- Santhosh CHRiS
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Both caused by greedy American corporations hmmm... OH NO!! Don't BAN me for saying that!!dosraider wrote:Whilst remembering the past dramas don't forget to think about what's going on in the present ...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/featu ... _2-26.html
Heh heh just kidding. What you posted Dosraider is total bull. America is giving India millions of jobs and old computers are a necessity to sustain a poor organization that can't afford new ones and naturally there will be some e-waste along with everything else but if we stopped these imports there'd probably be cutbacks meaning more people losing jobs and poverty grows. You can't please everybody and you can certainly NEVER please the environmentalists ugh.. I was one of them once.
- Santhosh CHRiS
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- Santhosh CHRiS
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Wow the admins of DGF look like they could use a break. Have one on me guys for a job well done
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http://www.cartoline.it/pics/scherzi_150404_01.swf
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- Santhosh CHRiS
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...... àààààààànd a topic split ladies and gentlemen !
YAY
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14566
YAY
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14566
wardrich wrote:The contrasts in personalities will deliver some SERIOUS lulz. I can't wait.
- Santhosh CHRiS
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Ghosts, Spirits, and Demons!!
Some of the best collection of ghosts, demons, and poltergeists caught on tape. Some are obviously fake but some appear not so... The truth totally depends on your own judgment but anywayz definitely worth a look. Just be sure you're not home alone at night before clicking the below link... WHO KNOWWWWSSS!!
Ghosts, Spirits, and Demons!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoJUBW9CI8
Ghosts, Spirits, and Demons!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoJUBW9CI8
- Santhosh CHRiS
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My boss at work showed us this link The Laka laka Malyalam mallu version of Waka Waka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDuBKd9_LVQ
Hope everyone's enjoying the World Cup so far
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDuBKd9_LVQ
Hope everyone's enjoying the World Cup so far
- Santhosh CHRiS
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Smile by Charlie Chaplin sung by Michael Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-rLA4POkI
This song and video got me through the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-rLA4POkI
This song and video got me through the day
- Santhosh CHRiS
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