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Archaea · 10-27-2008, 05:28 AM

Not a new topic, but one renewed in me through the re-reading of Night by Elie Wiesel.

Night, in case you have not read it, was a work first published in 1955 in Yiddish, in 1958 in French and in 1960 in English.

It was the story, more or less, of Mr. Wiesel as boy from Transylvania to the concentration camps.

The death of his humanity, his faith and of his emotions, move me every time I think upon it. And make me regret the shoddy answers I gave investigators when queried about the existence of God in spite of these horrible events. It is the examination of human history which makes me believe God is a lot more Deistic than many LDS espouse.

And the Holocaust is merely the most documented tragedy, but unfortunately not its only.

God is mysterious but it is not a mystery why some feel him not.

BarbaraGordon · 10-27-2008, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Night, in case you have not read it, was a work first published in 1955 in Yiddish, in 1958 in French and in 1960 in English.

And which, dare I ask, did we read?

Archaea · 10-27-2008, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

And which, dare I ask, did we read?

English.

French is written differently than the Yiddish and I can only guess at it without a dictionary.

However some significant differences exist. In the French, the boys released to coucher avec the girls but the Yiddish reflects the boys raped the girls to exact revenge upon them.

It is very amazing the depravities conveyed in the short time span.

Nice article by the way.

ERCougar · 10-27-2008, 12:16 PM

Elie Wiesel was a crossword answer a couple of days ago. I had to look him up on wikipedia to know who he was.

RockyBalboa · 10-27-2008, 01:29 PM

You are so odd.

10-27-2008, 05:28 AM	#1
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	Interventionist God, or Deist? Not a new topic, but one renewed in me through the re-reading of Night by Elie Wiesel. Night, in case you have not read it, was a work first published in 1955 in Yiddish, in 1958 in French and in 1960 in English. It was the story, more or less, of Mr. Wiesel as boy from Transylvania to the concentration camps. The death of his humanity, his faith and of his emotions, move me every time I think upon it. And make me regret the shoddy answers I gave investigators when queried about the existence of God in spite of these horrible events. It is the examination of human history which makes me believe God is a lot more Deistic than many LDS espouse. And the Holocaust is merely the most documented tragedy, but unfortunately not its only. God is mysterious but it is not a mystery why some feel him not. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

10-27-2008, 01:29 PM	#5
RockyBalboa Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Salt Lake City Posts: 7,297	You are so odd. __________________ Masquerading as Cougarguards very own genius dumbass since 05'.

10-27-2008, 12:16 PM	#4
ERCougar Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,589	Elie Wiesel was a crossword answer a couple of days ago. I had to look him up on wikipedia to know who he was.