and the paragon of virtue shall do no wrong

-- "humane" hitler disturbs germans -- im not surpried to hear that; actually that's a given. what does bother me is the human need to classify or pigeon hole people into being "good" or "bad". there aint no such thyng as the grey area. if yer stupid, you cannot say anythyng intelligent (by definition of stupid), and if yer smart, you cannot make a mistake -- that's what makes you smart. WHY could hitler do no good? or why couldnt he feel? was he totally devoid of emotion? a cold-calculation evil genius? *sigh* i would thynk three billion tyms before condemning someone to hell...(thats just me), and even then be guilty about it. at the end of the day, i'd give them the benefit of doubt, and let them off... there HAS to be an iota of kindness in you. that's why yer human. (didnt the beast have a heart too?) i can actually relate to hitler. *opps! did i say that out loud?* i was reading thys book on the dude... i thynk i mentioned it earlier too... hitler was a normal teenager dude, his dad either ran away or died or somat, so he was raised in relative poverty(they had no ffod at home)... as he grew older, he figured he wanted to be an artist, but was never good enuff to actually get into the vienna art school he had applied to... getting rejected twice from the painting(fine arts discipline), he felt the call of architechture... sadly, he couldnt get in there too... after which he disappeared from public -- his friends lost touch and i put the book down -- to never know what happened next. i was reading up on him, and see what i found. i for one find thys guy to be the most prolific statesmen ive come across. he brought out the german nation from teh ghetto it was living in, raised the standards of living... and the fact is, his people loved him. he was a leader. he wasnt building swiss bank accounts, or stables with the finest arab stallions, or mansions in surrey, or industries in saudi, or palaces in raiwind... and the fact is, he never dangled a carrot in front of his people. he never claimed to know what they wanted... he may have done what he wanted to, against the will of his people, but never claimed they were with him. hitler never lied to germany -- which is too much to say of our politicians. he dreamt of making germany a super power... and did that... in his lifetym. *sigh* im not saying he did no wrong. but one cannot discount all the rights he did... simply because he went mad in the end :p all i'm saying is... thys guy believed in somethyng, and believed passionately... and i respect him for that. and if i were her, i wouldnt have dropped my number plate -- just like that. ------------------------------------------------------------------ in other news, i met up with some old friends of mine from NCA... after 9 months... and man it was good. when i left them after about two hours, i was strangely content... we relived memories from the last four years, trips across pakistan, the chats in the canteens, the 130 yr-old red-brick structure... the teachers, the students, the gossip... and again as i left, i thanked god for having led me to them folks, cuz i have tried their friendship, and they have proven it. thanx guys, i o u. ------------------------------------------------------------------ lemme know if anyone catches thys on cnn.