(np) The Merkel Fallacy

[Jemmy Bloocher]

I have Submission on my to-read pile and I shall fast-track it I think. It was recommended to me by a very gentle and liberal thinker so I am not sure what I’ll think. It may make sense for me to read the Gregory one also now, so thanks for that.


> On 24 Dec 2016, at 18:37, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
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> No, the point is that both solutions to Western modernity are equally reactionary, unworkable, and awful to contemplate. Houollebecq uses his solution satirically, but 13th Century admiring Brad Gregory seems mildly serious. Ivory Tower serious. Gregory wrote a book about how every thing went wrong after the Reformation.
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> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 11:59 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Going Western Medieval as a solution to Islamic Medievalism?  No thanks.
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> David Morris
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> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com <mailto:mackin.paul at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Yes, a very good novel.
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> Another solution to current troubles pushed by historian Brad Gregory would be a return to the pre-Reformation Christian Middle Ages where everyone thought and believed the same thing because they sort of had to.
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> Gregory is one of the reactionaries featured in Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind.
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> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net <mailto:bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
> Has anyone else read 'Submission' by Michel Houellebecq? -   It’s a fine book -  a bit strange and sad,  but good.   It’s very generally about the Muslim takeover of France.
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> Becky
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> > On Dec 23, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com <mailto:jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > So Kai's world historic operating premise = having to either convert
> > or murder nearly a quarter of the planetary population.
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> > Or am I reading you wrong, here?
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> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:29 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> > <lorentzen at hotmail.de <mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de>> wrote:
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> >> (Premise 1) Islam is a religion, Islamism is a form of terrorism.
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> >> (Premise 2) Religion is good, terrorism is bad.
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> >> (Conclusion) Islam and Islamism have nothing to do with each other.
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> >> Can YOU see the mistake?
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