It's All Relative #2 (define fascism, define theocracy)
On Crossfire, with Tom Braden, Bob Novak, and some guy named John Lofton, Frank Zappa coins a new term. Just the right mixture of cynicism, intelligence and disdain to smack down any outraged conservative in his python skinned boots!
In other words, you selected the words that you could take out of context to create a context for your words, in other words, giving the words which you selected another meaning, which in fact distorted the original meaning of the words which you could use to give meaning to your words... I see. Very clever. Words do have meanings, but they are relative to the context in which you wish to portray those words.... Did you have to go to theological school to figure out how to do that?
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Poor Zappa. His arguments were so pathetic he even said words don't matter --- "just words." And he was a song writer! Sad...
John Lofton
In other words, you selected the words that you could take out of context to create a context for your words, in other words, giving the words which you selected another meaning, which in fact distorted the original meaning of the words which you could use to give meaning to your words...
I see. Very clever. Words do have meanings, but they are relative to the context in which you wish to portray those words....
Did you have to go to theological school to figure out how to do that?
Words DO matter; words DO have meaning; that's why Zappa's speaking dismissively of words was idiotic and stupid.
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