You're right about the threshold for this list, Paul... :-) I just found the excitement a bit out off proportion to the initiating term...
Jostein 2008/1/29, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I found Peter's argument very credible. And the descriptor you cite > below is quite mild as name calling goes. Particularly for this list:-). > Paul > On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:34 AM, AlunFoto wrote: > > > Peter, > > > > When you can get _that_ agitated by a mild word "hoax", said in jest, > > and go on to call everyone what you do, it doesn't lend much > > credibility to your arguments. > > > > "Holy crusaders of mother Gaia"... Sorry, Peter. Calm down. > > > > Best, > > Jostein > > > > 2008/1/29, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Their solutions are not necessarily correct either.. I should know > >> better than give an inch in this debate. The holy crusaders of > >> mother > >> Gaia don't seem to take human suffering, except for their own, and > >> sometimes not even that, into account. If the suffering is far > >> enough > >> away, or doesn't conform to their political argument, then it's > >> unimportant or strangely not happening. The people living in > >> poverty in > >> far off lands "want" to live that way, and it's "better for them" > >> anyway > >> to retain their quaint customs instead of adopting the same > >> comforts of > >> "so called civilization", (I'm using words here that I've heard > >> all too > >> often from so called environmentalists in quotes), that the > >> environmentalists, most of them safely protected from any real nature > >> enjoy. After all if the regulations that are necessary to "Save the > >> Planet", cause a factory to close, or not be built in the first > >> place, > >> and a relatively poor person to lose their job or never get a better > >> one, and go to bed a little hungry, maybe live a shorter more brutish > >> life with few amenities, it was the businesses fault for not > >> building > >> or closing that factory, or the systems fault for not > >> "incentiveizing" > >> some kind of work for the nether regions or the world or capitalisms > >> fault because it's so rapacious, never the regulators or the > >> environmentalists. They almost never discuss costs vs benefits > >> except > >> to dismiss them, or dismiss those who try to take them into account. > >> > >> AlunFoto wrote: > >>> P.J. Alling wrote: > >>> > >>>> I hate this use of the word Hoax. A hoax doesn't harm people, > >>>> except > >>>> maybe the pride of the gullible. If the global warming fanatics > >>>> are > >>>> wrong, then many people will be harmed by their actions. If > >>>> they're > >>>> right then serious actions should be taken, though not > >>>> unnecessarily the > >>>> ones they propose . Either way the debate isn't helped by the > >>>> use of > >>>> improper terms. > >>>> > >>> > >>> "Fanatics" are the ones who drive this debate to where most of us > >>> have > >>> to take a stance. But using it as a label for the other group > >>> doesn't > >>> help the debate much either. :-) > >>> > >>> Love yer sentence ".. though not _un_necessarily the ones they > >>> propose". > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Jostein > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati. > >> A union with the Bavarian Illuminati is contemplated. > >> When it is complete the Bavarian Cream Illuminati will rule the world > >> -- Anonymous > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > >> and follow the directions. > >> > > > > > > -- > > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
