From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 13:55:39 MST
On 2 Feb 2002 at 11:57, athe nonrex wrote:
> [joedees]
> >The term is accurate. And althoough Bush did get big oil help, he made
> >his killing with the texas rangers baseball team. Plus, I have yet to read
> >in the news of hijacked 747's full of innocent passengers being steered
> >into the Kaaba by Mancurian candidate clones.
> >>
> >But my point was that such a series of suicide attacks has never
> >occurred before from any purportedly religiously driven source.
> >Certainly not Mennonites.
> >>
> >I WILL tell you that subsequent mutations of the original monotheistic
> >meme have evolved into increasingly violent and virulent forms, and the
> >Islamic variant has proven to be by far the most resistant to the
> >moderating forces of democracy, secularism, egalitarianism and
> >modernity.
>
> [athenonrex]
> not quite what i was saying, but here, let me "break it down" for you.
>
> 1) the reason that islamic people are doing this is because they are ijn islamic countries. if they were christian contries, we would blame the christians.
>
But in fact Christians are NOT doing this in the contemporary world;
Muslims are.
>
> 2)i did not imply that the menonites do or did blow shit up, but i used a literary term called an "analogy" you should look it up some time.
>
You used what is commonly referred to as a bad analogy; it is bad
because the analogue does not map onto the referent.
>
> my arguement is very simplistic because the situation is a simple matter of logic, but you seem to be draging it out when it could have all been over.
>
Your argument is simply erroneous.
>
> i tire of you now, late...
>
>
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