On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:59:40AM +0000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Chris Wagner wrote: > > At 12:35 PM 5/23/00 +0000, Sergey A. Ribalchenko wrote: > > >> Hahah, Satanism, that was a good one. :) But I still prefer > > >> individualism to socialism. > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > >m.b. you missed, did you mean onanism? > > > > Ok, I don't really know what you mean? > > In Russia onanism (pronounced -follow spanish convention for vowels- > as ananism) means self gratification, masturbation, and is used to > indicate that the object referred to has little or no value.
correct up to here. > Probably having root same as "one, uno", etc. it's from a biblical story about a guy called Onan who had to marry his dead brother's widow (because of some jewish inheritance thing, i think), he didn't want to bonk her because he already had a wife or something like that. the story's an injunction against wasting one's "seed" by spilling it on the ground, and it has been generalised into a prohibition against wanking. i'm not a christian or a jew and that's about all i can remember of the story. > So in this case he means that socialism is shit. no, read it again. the insult was more personal than that. i'll leave it up to you to figure it out :) craig -- craig sanders