Re: Fading Extropy: More threats.

From: dwayne (dwayne@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 23:45:22 MDT


> Russell Evermore:
>
> Samantha Tennison writes:
>
> >Several analyst strongly suggest that the cold war
> >never really ended, and in fact we are seeing is a
> >very well thought out long-term strategy by both
> >Russia and China (now "friends") to destabilize the
> >Western Economic stability.
>
> Of course in the end they too are going to get their comeuppance when they
> find out that the Roman Empire never actually collapsed and that the whole
> thing was just are really, really long-term and well though out strategy to
> propagate the necessary social and technological conditions for the
> establishment of the enlightenment, capitalism, and ultimately molecular
> nanotechnology. As the Chinese technologist gazes into his stolen 3D
> scanning tunneling/imaging microscope at his brand new general purpose
> replicator, a Roman Centurion bashes in the door and impales him on his
> short sword ;-)

oooh, no, I'd say *this* is post of the month, just for the humour
value :-)

And without wading into what seems to be a shockingly narrow-minded
argument (are all muslims bad?) can I just mention that as a practising
pagan, I'm WAY WAY WAY more scared of xtians than I am of muslims, and I
grew up with muslims, and as an Australian I'm WAY WAY WAY more scared
of americans than I am of arabs. I suspect that Osama's "Crusader"
rhetoric is scarily on the ball.

And no, I'm not going to get sucked into this thread, I just thought I'd
throw this out.
not all religions are bad, but all monotheisms certainly are.

Dwayne

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