From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> ISTR that Bin Laden's next goal is to kill 3 million people
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Cite ?
> >> >>
> >> >> I don't have one since I can't access the web.
> >> >
> >> >That's a copout. How about any recollection at all of where you saw it,
> so
> >> >others can try to verify?
> >>
> >> The time was around 2004. It was a site that translates that
> >> news issued in Arabian. The essay counted 3,000,000 Arabs
> >> who had been killed by the US since 1500s and 3 million
> >> Americans would have to die to make things equal.
> >
> >You're saying that "a site" threatened 3 million Americans ?
> >
> >How feeble minded are you ?
>
> Fortunately, not as feeble as you are.

You're absurd.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >> >What exactly is it that you're afraid of ?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Loss of enough knowledge of how to do things that it will
> >> >> >> take another 1000 years to reinvent the wheel.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Are you actually serious ?
> >> >>
> >> >> Yes. I'm working on a 1000 year scenario and trying to shortcut
> >> >> the cold start so that it will only be 500 years.
> >> >
> >> >In 500 years Islam will have 'grown up'.
> >>
> >> They are at the age that Christianity was in the 1500s.
> >> I've been studying that era. Assuming (this is a big
> >> assumption) that religions follow similar growing paths,
> >> take the same time for each growing pain, there is going
> >> to be quite a bit of mess before things gets settled down.
> >
> >I expect that modern global communications / media and living in each
> >others' cultures will speed up the growing process very considerably.
>
> Actually, I think it stops maturing.

The evidence is completely the reverse of your suggestion.


> Go read about the tower
> of Babel and how nobody got anything done.

The best argument you have is an old Bible story ?


> I've got a new
> hypothesis about this one. When you go to work and nobody
> shuts up, nothing gets done.

So ?

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> If the mindset of the religious extremists are not changed and
> >> they become successful in destroying Western civilization.......
> >
> >How could they even begin to acheive this ?
>
> You will help. I'm not make any specifications here just in
> case someone hasn't thought of it.

Hollow answer with no content since you simply can't supply a real
answer.

Graham

From: John Larkin on
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:43:28 +0100, "T Wake"
<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:

>
>I didn't Google search it. I made a judgement call on the most likely
>result. It was not Google who used it in context in the debate though.
>

Well, you might consider doing so; it's not all that difficult. Turns
out a lot happened between about 630 and 1400. Since I have no
definition of "world power" you'll have to read it your way.

John

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote
>
> >> Because this intent to destroy all traces of Western civilization
> >> is not isolated to one human being.
> >
> >Where do you *get* these assumptions???
>
> What assumptions? Islamic extremists wish to kill me and mine?
> They've told me so.

Like how ?


> Furthermore, their statements were not
> empty threats; they demonstrated their intent. Any other
> pronouncements are to be taken seriously and not dismissed as
> bluster.

Why do you listen only to threats - especially when these threats come from a
tiny minority ?

Graham