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From: Daniel Mandic on 11 Oct 2006 16:02 Expert of Art? Were there ever any people on this world, making a measure for Art? They must be better than the Art itself. Best Regards, Daniel Mandic
From: Eeyore on 11 Oct 2006 16:10 T Wake wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote > > T Wake wrote: > > >> A best this is one AQ person extolling his supporters to fight harder. > >> Even destroying the White House is a _far_ cry from attacking Western > >> Civilisation. The Islamic extremists can kill people, torture people, > >> destroy buildings and the like. They cant "destroy civilisation." > > > > Were it not for the modern media no-one would even be paying attention to > > him. > > Sad really, isn't it. I'm sure plenty of this happened in past decades and even centuries but quite rightly, no-one took it seriously back then. Graham
From: Eeyore on 11 Oct 2006 16:17 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote > > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote > > > >> The reality is that the attacks on the WTC were an attack on America, not > >> Western Civilisation. You can ignore this as much as you want. You can > >> also fantasise that fear of a "mess" is justification to make as many > >> other messes as you want. but this still is not reality. > > > > Actually it may well be that they were an attack on the WTC. It was bin > > Laden's second attempt at the same buildings out of millions he could have > > chosen, and his family are in construction. > > Interesting thought. I hadn't thought made that connection. > > Still, I don't think it's a huge leap of faith to say he was trying to hurt > the US economy. To leap from that to destroying the US, or more > ludicrously, all of Western Civilization, is nothing short of paranoid > delusion. > I'm not at all convinced he intended to hurt the economy especially. In fact it's widely reported that he didn't even expect the towers to fall. The aim was wholly symbolic I'm sure. Graham
From: Eeyore on 11 Oct 2006 16:21 John Fields wrote: > Graham's vocabulary > encompasses a rather limited subset of the English language I have GCE Oxford and Cambridge Board 'O levels' in English Language and English Literature. What do you have ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 11 Oct 2006 16:23
T Wake wrote: > I think you have mixed metaphors by bringing in the real > world engineering solutions - yes there may be a convoluted answer needed, > but that it is still the simplest, working, solution which is used. Engineers pretty much invariably like the simplest solution ! Graham |