I certainly wouldn't have seen any hijack Orn. Your views are welcome in my heart, as is Vam's 'if only' comment above. My point on 'dogmatic non-dogmatism' is only a general one and it is made in many forms including 'the return of desire' (Zizek ad nauseum) and deconstruction that fails to remember we can only do our best in the undecidable. Slip can seem right when one sees destructive Islam, yet how this fades once one looks at who is doing the killing and our lack of non-xenophobic consideration of the problematic.
On 15 Jan, 13:06, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 Jan, 23:02, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > or was entirely preoccupied with being > > annoyed by Muslims! <<Twirlip > > > No one is preoccupied with being annoyed by Muslims. The fact is that > > Muslims are a dominant subject in relation to horrendous acts of > > terrorism and declarations of torment for the rest of the world. The > > reports are not about any other segment of society and therefore > > justified fears are to follow. > > So are the Neo-Con Christian Right Wingers. You remember > them...they're running the show (from behind the scenes) in the U.S. > and have been since the J. Edgar Hoover days. That's why we invaded > Iraq under false pretense and Afghanistan and have a 'War on Terror', > which is Neo-Con code for 'The Last Crusade'. It takes 2 to tango > and, as the Bush's have strong ties to oil (thus the Al-Sauds) and the > Al-Sauds are only a little more powerful than the Bin Ladens, the > Bushs have fairly strong ties to BOTH those families. And, of course, > if the Bin Ladens can, somehow, besmirch the name of the Al-Sauds, > then Arabia will change hands and become Ladeni Arabia, which, I > believe, is the ultimate plan of Usama. But...what do I know?? I'm > FAR more worried about the Neo-Cons (who, also, like the Muslim > fundamentalists, are a minority) than Al-Qaeda. From that last > bombing of CIA agents BY Al-Qaeda (which proves that AQ had > successfully infiltrated the CIA) their intelligence gathering and > operations FAR exceed that of the CIA. And who is it who dumbed-down > the CIA to make them the useless bunch of clowns they are now? Ah > yes, GHW Bush!! And who is it who STILL demands daily reports FROM > the CIA...Ah yes, GHW Bush. See any patterns here?? > > > > > On Jan 14, 3:51 pm, Twirlip <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I hoped the smiley would be enough to make it clear that I was only > > > kidding you, with a bit of cod-Zen, or something. > > > > As you observe, I'm new here: very new, because although I stumbled > > > across the group about a month ago, and subscribed to the daily digest > > > e-mail, I got distracted by my daughter's birthday, Christmas, and New > > > Year, while also somehow forming the mistaken impression that the > > > group had become inactive, or was entirely preoccupied with being > > > annoyed by Muslims! It was only a day or two ago that I actually > > > looked at the most recent couple of digests, and realised my mistake. > > > Sorry if I've just made another one! > > > > I should perhaps have followed good old Usenet advice to take a week > > > or so to acclimatise, before jumping in, but I saw the thread on > > > "Science", and couldn't resist. > > > > Returning you to your actual thread, with apologies ...- Hide quoted text > > > - > > > - Show quoted text -
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