Bleeding Edge, pp. 312-313

[Paul Mackin]

It's an impossible situation. Bombing makes things worse. Long live bombing.

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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:03 AM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com> wrote:
> These 'losers' are indoctrinated and brainwashed same as any marine
> sniper. As damaged, in their way, as any Starkweather. To simplify
> them as Losers is too 2-D, too subjective, too dismissive. These
> people, their worldview, has to be understood to be effectively
> opposed. Not everyone who opts for celibacy hates sex. Sex is life but
> it isn't the only reason to live. Additionally it's a fair bet the
> bombers wanked as much as anyone. The 100 percent celibate is very,
> very rare. Masturbation may be self-love but it's hardly a substitute
> for empathy. Empathy is what's damaged in these killers: they're
> taught to not see humanity but an evidence of humanity's failure in
> the eyes of Allah. WE are the 'losers' to them: we are the Them to
> their Us. Sex alone cannot cure that psychosis.
>
> On 11/16/15, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even the losers get lucky sometimes. But these losers, boys for the most
>> part, don't get that, so they hate themselves, hate women, hate sex, and
>> sport, and rock and roll and restaurants and good food and drink, and a
>> good time. How unfortunate. To aggrandize the anxiety of these losers, to
>> make them ideological spokesmen of the Palestinian plight, the
>> Post-Colonial rebound, the effect of Orientalists and Oil, is silly. These
>> boys are losers. Masturbation may have prevented this, and a good night out
>> and some sex would have surely.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Come now, you who say,
>>> <https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Jas4.13-15#footnote1>“Today
>>> or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there
>>> and
>>> trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.
>>> What is your life? For
>>> <https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Jas4.13-15#footnote2>you
>>> are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you
>>> ought to say, <https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Jas4.13-15#footnote3>“If the
>>> Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
>>>
>>> 2015-11-16 11:12 GMT+01:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hm.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
>>>> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    In the taxi on the way home, there's loud traffic in Arabic on the
>>>>> radio, which Maxine figures at first for a call-in show till the cabbie
>>>>> picks up a handset and joins in. She glances at the ID up on the
>>>>> Plexiglas.
>>>>> The face in the photo is too indistinct to make out, but the name is
>>>>> Islamic, Mohammed somebody.
>>>>>    It's like hearing a party from another room, though Maxine notices
>>>>> there's no music, no laughing. High emotion all right, but closer to
>>>>> tears
>>>>> or anger. Men talking over each other, shouting, interrupting. A couple
>>>>> of
>>>>> the voices might be women's, though later it will seem they could have
>>>>> belonged to high-pitched men. The only word Maxine recognizes, and she
>>>>> hears it more than once, is *Inshallah*. "Arabic for 'whatever,'" Horst
>>>>> nods.
>>>>>    They're waiting at a light. "If it is God's will," the driver
>>>>> corrects him, half turning in his seat so that Maxine happens to be
>>>>> looking
>>>>> him in the face. What she sees there will keep her from getting to
>>>>> sleep
>>>>> right away. Or that's how she'll remember it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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