The Logic Off Topic list

At 10:55 PM -0400 10/10/01, Teddy Kumpel wrote:
>
>I think my judgement is pretty good. I can always do more to protect the
>environment, but unfortunately the corporations can make more money if they
>don't think that way...

Yes environmental consiousness is good but I hope you not implying 
that you have become afflicted with the virulent form of insanity 
that is leading some of the inmates here into the delusion that this 
is a war about environmental issues?  I find it truly ghoulish that 
some people around here most notably Sascha and Spectro seem so eager 
to twist and coopt the nature of the tragedy to serve their own 
personal cause.

Environmentalism is too important an issue to be subverted by well 
meaning people distorting unrelated issues in an attempt to make them 
appear to support the cause and thus damaging the credibility of the 
more responsible members of the movement.

The big problem we've got right now is fanaticism.  It has lots of 
subsets the main ones screwing us up at the moment seem to me to be 
Fundamentalism, Nationalism, and Zionism all of which when taken to 
extremes cause people to loose sight of the bigger picture and 
eventually harm not only their perceived adversaries but themselves 
and their allies as well.  Please do not add environdementalism to 
the list.

>  Maybe Ralph Nader will be the next president of the US.

Heaven forbid.

>Nostradamus predicts (after the events of 9/11 and according to a TV show
>made in the late 70's with Orson Welles MC-ing, filtered and simplified
>through me who doesn't believe anything)
>
>this war will last 27 years
>Afghanistan and Pakistan will no longer exist when it's over
>NYC may become unlivable because of underground fires
>there will be a thousand years of peace after the war
>
>interestingly morbid eh...

Every time there is a big event someone somewhere brings up 
Nostrodamus.   I guess we are all familiar with the one reference 
lately that after making a big stir around the net turned out to have 
been lifted not from Nostrodamus's writings but from a college thesis 
about the ease with which is writings could be interpreted to mean 
*anything*.
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