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Thread #97110   Message #1910364
Posted By: 3refs
15-Dec-06 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: Debating with deniers
Subject: RE: Debating with deniers
I AM NOT A DENIER!!!!

When I was a kid and played "Cowboys and Indians", somebody inevitably was "Billy The Kid"! Why? Because we were lead to believe, via books, movies and lore, that Billy was a "Wild West Legend" of epic proportions. It wasn't until many years later that I was made aware of more of the facts. "Billy The Kid" was more attuned to "Dirty Little Billy" and was certainly no hero to emulate!
If you had asked me 30 years ago what the Holocaust was, my answer would have been "that's when 6 million European Jews were executed by lethal gas in Germany by Hitler". 6 Million Jews, lethal gas and Germany have all been adjusted somewhat in the last 60 years. As I have learned, through immersing myself as much as possible since my first response to this thread, I now know that some of what I believed was true, while some was not. I have read Deborah Lipstadt, The Weber-Shermer Clash,Robert Faurisson and Simon Wiesenthal among others. My overall view has changed somewhat as to what I believed was fact and what I now know is fiction. If not for dialogue of some kind how would I have learned what I now know? Is it important, for me as an individual, to know the truth as best as it can be told? Yes!
Call me what you will, but a denier, no!