Are angels male or female?

[Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept@xxxxxxxx>]

My dear friends,

I apologise, but I must say this already, even though I'm new here.

I think we should post only to convince each other. There is a thing as an
end to an argument, when the sides have said what they want to say, and
can't convince each other. Repeating the same thing again, and again, and
again, and again does not make the "enemy" understand it any better.

I'm having a hard time separating the debates really going on from the ones
that seem to be going on due to incredible efforts to artificially continue
them. In Turkish, there is a phrase "arguing whether angels are male or
female" referring to this type of endless discussion.

Finally, don't anybody dare say I'm for censorship, or afraid of arguments,
or betraying the working class by letting it be fooled by demagogues, or
anything similar. I've heard it all, and I've also seen revolutionaries
killed by other "revolutionaries" from rival factions.

Just take this as a kind request, not to calm down, but rather to keep the
debates relevant to all.

Zeynep



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