From: Eeyore on 9 Oct 2006 10:31 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 9 Oct 2006 10:33 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 9 Oct 2006 10:36 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 9 Oct 2006 10:37 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 9 Oct 2006 10:38
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 |