Re: [Off-topic] Was: mailing list vs "the futur"
On Tuesday 04 September 2018 14:15:01 John Hasler wrote:
> Gene writes:
> > macht nichts. Doesn't make any difference IOW, they are all bad.
>
> But the Great War was also "The War To End All Wars". Seems to have
> worked, eventually. Nobody declares war any more.
>
No, they just get called terrorists.
> > Mans inhumanity to man knows no bounds and leaves the participants
> > in the ditches with what we call PTSD today. Then it was "shell
> > shock", same thing they've now given it a "better" name of PTSD
>
> "Shell shock" initially was assumed to result from bombardment. It was
> never well-defined and has fallen out of use. "Combat stress reaction"
> refers to an acute (that is, prompt) psychiatric reaction to combat
> stress and covers most of what used to be called "shell shock". It
> becomes PTSD if it persists for long enough.
>
> We're going to get flamed again for being off-topic.
Thats Godwins Law isn't it? But I'll have to agree, we've about wore it
out.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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