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  • #31
    Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

    Spent a great 4th of July at a fireworks national tribute talking to a first generation Muslim Somali family. As cool as they were, they appeared even more enthusiastic to talk to me.

    Hope some day people realize that extremism exists everywhere. Movements (religion, nationalism, etc) typically offer important benefits to society. Yet extremists are frequently attracted to movements, because they can subvert them to their cause. Too much extremism kills the host movement.
    Go Gophers!

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    • #32
      Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

      Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
      Hope some day people realize that extremism exists everywhere. Movements (religion, nationalism, etc) typically offer important benefits to society. Yet extremists are frequently attracted to movements, because they can subvert them to their cause. Too much extremism kills the host movement.
      This is a good way to look at it. Religion and nationalism are emotional and personal psychological experiences. Extremism enters into them when the person is deeply ashamed, resentful and/or just plain ignorant.

      A religion is a car. Cars are very useful. An extremist behind the wheel misuses the car to run people down. That is not a reflection on the car.
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      • #33
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        This is a good way to look at it. Religion and nationalism are emotional and personal psychological experiences. Extremism enters into them when the person is deeply ashamed, resentful and/or just plain ignorant.

        A religion is a car. Cars are very useful. An extremist behind the wheel misuses the car to run people down. That is not a reflection on the car.
        Corvair??
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        • #34
          Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

          Originally posted by joecct View Post
          Corvair??
          Calvinism. Unsafe at any speed.
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          • #35
            Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post

            A religion is a car. Cars are very useful. An extremist behind the wheel misuses the car to run people down. That is not a reflection on the car.
            You could write press releases for the NRA with statements like this.
            That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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            • #36
              Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

              Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
              You could write press releases for the NRA with statements like this.
              That did occur to me. However, using a gun to kill someone is not misuse of the gun -- it's the whole point.
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              • #37
                Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                That did occur to me. However, using a gun to kill someone is not misuse of the gun -- it's the whole point.
                Now that could be a press release for the NRA: 'All the casualties with none of the benefit'
                Go Gophers!

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                • #38
                  Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                  The Nuremberg Laws are up to 41% support.

                  The next big attack we may as well just pack up lady liberty and return to sender. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

                  Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

                  With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

                  Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

                  A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

                  Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

                  Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

                  Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

                  The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

                  "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

                  With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

                  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

                  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

                  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

                  I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
                  Last edited by Kepler; 07-05-2016, 01:25 PM.
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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    The Nuremberg Laws are up to 41% support.

                    The next big attack we may as well just pack up lady liberty and return to sender. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
                    Never let a crisis go to waste. Works every time, no matter what the party.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      That did occur to me. However, using a gun to kill someone is not misuse of the gun -- it's the whole point.
                      So anyone who buys a gun should automatically be brought up on conspiracy to commit charges?
                      If you don't change the world today, how can it be any better tomorrow?

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                      • #41
                        Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                        Originally posted by LynahFan View Post
                        So anyone who buys a gun should automatically be brought up on conspiracy to commit charges?
                        In the fantasy world of Kepler, jjm, and 5mn? Yes, even muzzle-loaders.

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                        • #42
                          Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                          The US has surrendered. http://www.americanjournalreview.com...ull-sick-find/

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                          • #43
                            Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                            Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                            Written by fourth graders for fourth graders.

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                            • #44
                              Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                              Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                              You guys are slipping. I assumed it was going to be this flag.
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                              • #45
                                Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                                Originally posted by burd View Post
                                Written by fourth graders for fourth graders.
                                Don't knock it. Most copy for mass communication in the United States (tabloids, talk radio, USA Today, network news) is written deliberately for an audience with the effective educational attainment of fourth grade. That is the CW for the marketing sweet spot.

                                Writing for high schoolers would be "elitist."
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