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No, I do not give any credence to this idea and neither should you. I have looked into these conspiracy theories, and like others, which I consider plausible, this one has too many holes in it and is too easily explained by observable human nature. I understand the JQ is tempting -- I myself spent six months reading all the big names, but it's a lot of smoke and mirrors and putting the cart before the horse. Before you reach for the wildcard of the JQ, see if you can find a plausible explanation that doesn't rely on superhuman malevolence, duplicity, or unearthly evil.
The most plausible explanation is that the actual number of victims is close enough to the round number of 6,000,000 for people to remember it that way -- just like 10,000,000 in Holodomor. 6 million also accounts for two thirds of Europe's Jews, which is also a dramatic number and probably reminiscent of the Biblical remnant. To illustrate my point, consider which warning is more alarming:
"There will be a great pogrom across Europe, and many Jews will be killed."
"There will be a great pogrom across Europe, and for every Jewish survivor, two will perish."
I know Jabotinski specifically warned Jews in the 1930s about an approaching pogrom of apocalyptic proportions, and the idea of Jews being massacred was very much a practical concern in Eastern Europe as far back as 1906 -- when such atrocities did occur. If Jewish writers were talking about the dramatic round number of 6,000,000 before WWII, then:
1) Many people have stumbled upon the right number or the correct theory, but that in itself doesn't mean anything.
2) It would be bizarre in the extreme if people did not return to those predictions after the fact.
Let's say you predict that a sports team will lose the Superbowl by 6 points, and it comes to pass. Most people would say, "see? I told you so." It's a trifling example, but it illustrates the point.
To return to point (1), I'll give you an example. Anaximander the Ancient Greek philosopher actually proposed a theory of evolution by natural selection. Is he the author of the theory of evolution? No. His perspective -- rejected for thousands of years -- was simply one of many attempts at the time to explain the origins of Man and the world. By the same token, Jews talking about a Holocaust before WWII were simply expressing one of the obvious possibilities of the coming decades.
Given what is happening today in the USA, it is hardly a prophetic act to say that America could descend into a civil war that could destroy entire cities and result in the deaths of 30,000,000. See how easy it is? If this should come to pass, perhaps future Kevin Macdonalds will cite my YouTube channel as evidence of the great Jewish conspiracy to destroy America.
I appreciate your questions and can see that you're doing your best to make sense of these issues. As an aid to your studies, I recommend you look up the concept of "unfalsifiability".
I want your opinion on one last thing. Do you give any credence to the idea that it wasn't just after WWII the 6 million figure and word Holocaust were invoked? It's also appeared from a number of articles by Jewish publicists from 1906 onward.
No, I do not give any credence to this idea and neither should you. I have looked into these conspiracy theories, and like others, which I consider plausible, this one has too many holes in it and is too easily explained by observable human nature. I understand the JQ is tempting -- I myself spent six months reading all the big names, but it's a lot of smoke and mirrors and putting the cart before the horse. Before you reach for the wildcard of the JQ, see if you can find a plausible explanation that doesn't rely on superhuman malevolence, duplicity, or unearthly evil.
The most plausible explanation is that the actual number of victims is close enough to the round number of 6,000,000 for people to remember it that way -- just like 10,000,000 in Holodomor. 6 million also accounts for two thirds of Europe's Jews, which is also a dramatic number and probably reminiscent of the Biblical remnant. To illustrate my point, consider which warning is more alarming:
"There will be a great pogrom across Europe, and many Jews will be killed."
"There will be a great pogrom across Europe, and for every Jewish survivor, two will perish."
I know Jabotinski specifically warned Jews in the 1930s about an approaching pogrom of apocalyptic proportions, and the idea of Jews being massacred was very much a practical concern in Eastern Europe as far back as 1906 -- when such atrocities did occur. If Jewish writers were talking about the dramatic round number of 6,000,000 before WWII, then:
1) Many people have stumbled upon the right number or the correct theory, but that in itself doesn't mean anything.
2) It would be bizarre in the extreme if people did not return to those predictions after the fact.
Let's say you predict that a sports team will lose the Superbowl by 6 points, and it comes to pass. Most people would say, "see? I told you so." It's a trifling example, but it illustrates the point.
To return to point (1), I'll give you an example. Anaximander the Ancient Greek philosopher actually proposed a theory of evolution by natural selection. Is he the author of the theory of evolution? No. His perspective -- rejected for thousands of years -- was simply one of many attempts at the time to explain the origins of Man and the world. By the same token, Jews talking about a Holocaust before WWII were simply expressing one of the obvious possibilities of the coming decades.
Given what is happening today in the USA, it is hardly a prophetic act to say that America could descend into a civil war that could destroy entire cities and result in the deaths of 30,000,000. See how easy it is? If this should come to pass, perhaps future Kevin Macdonalds will cite my YouTube channel as evidence of the great Jewish conspiracy to destroy America.
I appreciate your questions and can see that you're doing your best to make sense of these issues. As an aid to your studies, I recommend you look up the concept of "unfalsifiability".
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