i realize that I have come off as self-righteous so I'm sorry for that... gekko's attacking me rather than debating with me kinda put me off the edge because his attitude works against how a board should operate. sure, that's no excuse, but that's my reasoning.
reading "mein kampf" is important, by the way, for obviously having read it would give me a lot more insight into Hitler (the person we have been discussing).
also, the financial issues caused by the war were never "solved" anywhere, but that's to be expected. in theory, the countries of europe are so amassed in debt and war reparations that they could never pull out of it, but of course 'arrangements' were made to help that...
however, just to make a point, your assumptions about my intelligence are just that -- assumptions. there's no way you can say I'm not as smart as I "think" I am because i could possibly be MUCH smarter than I think I am... we'll never know. intelligence is based on a scale that is formed by each person individually...
no, i don't feel special for reading a book by hitler. however, it DOES make you less informed when you are discussing hitler and I have read a book written by him and you haven't. That much is obvious. anyway, my mentioning the book in the first place was in response to gekko's unfounded accusations that I'm uneducated.
I don't see how I was being more childish than him... he's the one who stooped to say that I was uneducated in the first place.
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