AtDTDA: 18 the unaturally sheik / straying pretty far into NP airspace

[Cometman]

 --- that boob Cometman <cometman_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
 > >           What is deeply disturbing about the Ahmadinejad 
 > > controversy is how the white noise surrounding it is 
 > > contributing to the spurious idea that Iran, an undeniable 
 > > sponsor of terrorism, is, as such, in some way linked to the 9/11
 > > attacks. Nothing could be further from the truth and from
 > > reality.
 
> even more deeply disturbing is a lack of fine distinction here:
 
 yada yada blah blah blah and furthurmoor ---
 3) the operating assumption is the relevance of the revenge
 ethic, when as we all know (on some level), earth needs to
 abandon the revenge ethic as a precondition for entering
 the Cosmic Federation - the one-way nature of time is
 like training wheels for primitive zones that haven't
 transcended the revenge ethic: people would be going back
 to get back, and that wouldn't do, dontcha know
 
 4) annnd, where is the concept of 
 
 a) Triage: traffic and disease still kill more than war, 
 a trillion dollars and (even more powerful) the work
 of all those currently wasting their time securing the oil
 ...er, bringing Democracy to the 3rd world...
 talking about bright, committed, strong people here...
 what couldn't they accomplish?
 
 b) budgeting & investment - those trillion dollars,
 those untold billions of person-hours could be
 thrown (even haphazardly - couldn't be more wasteful and
 fraudulent than war!) at one or more huge projects
 - space elevator, cold fusion, yada yada...
 yielding medium- and even short-term benefits
 -- ie, the same contractors, Halliburton - why the
 hell not, they are bright and competent people!
 could realize MORE money doing useful stuff
 -- if they ever twig to that reality, shit will
 start to change...


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