Sentynel wrote: That's a Tolkien quote. Gandalf says it in Fellowship of the Ring, when they see Gollum in the mines.

Ooohh, I thought it was Shakespeare. Ha.

I love that quote.

This book made me sick the first time I read it.

I had to read it for required reading the second.

It was a horrible time. And in the Jewish religion, you have to preserve the body so that when the true messiah comes you'll be ressurected.

Burning them was destroying not only the people, but their faith and history as well.

Yes, it was.

My sister wanted to read the book and since she's only eleven I took it away from her and gave her the AoS instead.

I guess I'm a little overprotective.

But the whole book affected me deeply.

The poeple who throw around swasticas and the words "Heil Hitler!" don't know what it all means. They think that it's all a joke.

When used in a proper manner, yes is can be funny (i.e. The Producers, many South Park episodes, etc.) but when it's used like that it's just disgusting.

There's someone who has reviewed all forty of the chapters of Tara's fic under the name "Heil Hitler". All this person wrote was "Heil Hitler". In my latest review I yelled at them.

It depends on how emtioanlly mature your sister is, Ianna. Some younger people can handle it, some can't. Although, I agree, eleven probably is too young.

I think she's still a little young, even emotionally.

I still think it's not funny in South Park or The Producers. It's just not funny.

You know, the swastica used to mean benvolence and good luck?

Now it's a hated symbol.

It was a buddhist symbol, but Hitler rotated it to make it the swastica.

Gays and lesbiens have used the symbols that the Nazi's employed to harm as symbols for their rights.

I'm half-jewish, and I can laugh when people poke fun at it. Not when people try to ressurect it, or think that it doesn't matter, but I can laugh.

Basically what the people behind the "poking" are doing is saying "WE know it was an awful time, and we respect that. But we have to move on with time, and what better a way to do that, then to have a few laughs."

At least, that's my opinion.

I'm quite sensitive about these things. I punched a guy because he made fun of Denny dying off Grey's Anatomy.

It's just, I can see it all in my head and it becomes real. I mean, I know the Holocaust was real, but it becomes real to me and I'm there. I guess that sounds kind of crazy, huh?

Not at all. I saw it too.

Death and terror are horrible things, but in my opinion, we just have to remember that there's more to life than that.

It's good to remeber it though, no matter how horrible it was, so that it will never happen again. Who here read Elie Wiesels speech?

I did.

And you spelled his last name wrong.

I know you read it Artemis. And your right, I did spell his name wrong, sorry.

I don't remember if I did or not. I think not.

I know there's more to life than that...but it sure is hard sometimes.

hey, sorry to be random but whats a holocaust?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_ ... guation%29

But mainly people refer to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust

The holocaust was a event. During World War 2. Wow, I've never met somebody who didn't know what it was.