Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-25 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Dave Land wrote: A pack of Saudi terrorists hijacked planes on the date of 9/11. A pack of Robin Hood-in-Reverse thieves then hijacked society on the basis of 9/11. Nice rethorics. Sonja GCU: =off ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-24 Thread Dave Land
Dan, OK, I agree that we cannot stop all terrorist-type activities. But, I think it is a reasonable long term stretch goal to reduce terrorists to just another type of criminal...without the ability to alter society. First of all, I'd like to commend both you and my old friend Nick for carrying on

Re: Who does GWB think he is? L3

2004-10-24 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: I'd give him a bit more leeway than that. While he and we are not God, he and we can be willing instruments of God's will for the world. The idea of the United States as "the last best hope of mankind" didn't begin with him or Reaganit is a quote from Lincoln. Lincoln -- an

Re: Who does GWB think he is? L3

2004-10-23 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:46 PM Subject: Re: Who does GWB think he is? > Dan Minette wrote: > > Anyway, you're startin

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-23 Thread Keith Henson
At 08:26 PM 22/10/04 -0700, Nick wrote: Keith Henson wrote: I think that if you want to try to understand why humans do things you have to look at how our psychological mechanisms were shaped in the EEA, the environment of evolutionary adaption. I have to? There's no other way? ;-) No non-evol

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-22 Thread Nick Arnett
Keith Henson wrote: I think that if you want to try to understand why humans do things you have to look at how our psychological mechanisms were shaped in the EEA, the environment of evolutionary adaption. I have to? There's no other way? ;-) No non-evolutionary explanations? Not that I am p

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-22 Thread Keith Henson
At 02:49 PM 21/10/04 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote: Dan Minette wrote: By no stretch of the imagination was Bin Laden opressed. Certainly not economically. His personal concerns are unknown to me, but I'm certain that he may be reacting to his perception of how "his people," however he might categori

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: I'm trying to figure out your arguement. The question is whether we'll stop terrorism by simply being as just as we can That's not a question for me. I don't think we're called to "stop terrorism." I don't think that's within human power. The question for me is how to love

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: Who does GWB think he is? > Dan Minette wrote: > > > By no stretch of the imagi

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: By no stretch of the imagination was Bin Laden opressed. Certainly not economically. His personal concerns are unknown to me, but I'm certain that he may be reacting to his perception of how "his people," however he might categorize them, are treated. I'm not sure it matte

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Who does GWB think he is? Finishing a thought. > It is > > > acceptable to

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Who does GWB think he is? > Dan Minette wrote: > > > But, here is the questi

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: Jesus calls us to be peace-makers, not dividers of the world into "good" nations and "evil-doers." But, here is the question that has faced Christians for ~1600 years. It is acceptable to fight to protect innocents? I don't think that's the question at hand, although it's a fi

Re: Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:43 AM Subject: Who does GWB think he is? > Following up on John Edwards' yucky statement that paralyti

Who does GWB think he is?

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Arnett
Following up on John Edwards' yucky statement that paralytics will rise up from their wheelchairs under a Kerry administration, suggesting to some that Edwards thinks Kerry is Jesus, here is language that our president and his speechwriters chose. On the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 att