Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!vrdxhq!BMS-AT!stuart From: stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) Newsgroups: talk.abortion Subject: Re: It's still mine Message-ID: <243@BMS-AT.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 21:26:55 EDT Article-I.D.: BMS-AT.243 Posted: Tue Oct 7 21:26:55 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 11:08:22 EDT References: <5152@decwrl.DEC.COM> <1091@ogcvax.UUCP> <706@bcsaic.UUCP> Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA Lines: 13 Summary: decadence and history In article <706@bcsaic.UUCP>, pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (wagener) writes: > Actually people are behaving more like they have been acting > until the last 90-80 years or so. The puritanical mores have > never been that widespread and aren't really even today. I am quite well aware that decadence has been the rule rather than the exception. In looking at history, which is better? Hint: When did Rome fall? What was the king of Babylon doing when it fell? Why were the persians pushovers when their empire fell? What will Americans be doing when their nation goes up in smoke? -- Stuart D. Gathman <..!seismo!{vrdxhq|dgis}!BMS-AT!stuart>