On 30 Aug 2002 at 13:30, Michelle wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Didn't I just see you write that you would stop talking about
> Iraq/terror if everyone else did? Then why did you then immediately
> post 5 (FIVE) NEW threads of articles on the topic? (oh, while I was
> writing it became SIX.)
>
> Joe, It would seem, in the face of all this, that if you were really
> just responding to others's continued talk on the subject, you
> wouldn't be posting new articles en masse like this. Is anyone
> engaging you besides Hermit, except to ask to you stop talking about
> the same thing all the time? If you walked into a party and started
> talking like you're writing, you would quickly find yourself alone,
> talking to the wall. Or the cat. Whatever. If this were a physical
> congregation, rather than a virtual one, I don't think you would be
> acting as you are. You seem very smart, polite, succinct and logical,
> and I think your social skills are more advanced than you're
> displaying in this medium. While each article you add is interesting,
> it's too much at once. You're overpowering, and the immediate
> reaction is to shut down in the face of it. I am begging you to
> please, please at least pace yourself.
>
I'll try, but I was giving Kharin the secular critiques he was requesting -
basically showing hinm that they were already out there and that in the
face of the massive memetic filters of fundamentalist Muslim faith/belief,
that they weren't making much of a dent in the religiously xenophobic
and hate-exalting mindset of radical Islamists, but rather identiifying to
them Jihadic targets for the greater glory of Allah
I also found it both humorous and sad that antiglobalists would
contradict themselves so far as to make common cause with a medieval
religion whoss goal is a one-world global theocratic Ummah.
Please believe me when I tell you that I am being very selective; there
are literally thousands of good articles on this skein of interconnected
issues, and I am choosing only those which I consider to be the very
best.
>
> Respectfully,
> Michelle
>
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