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Message 371355 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 5:23:22 UTC

And I know Fuzzy will join. Yesterday she said she loves joining cults. She's in the FSM and the Foamy one already. So make a note to send her an application/power of attorney forms, etc. You're on your way!
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Message 371354 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 5:21:34 UTC - in response to Message 371353.  
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I think I need to come up with a good scam. Or maybe I will just start a cult and tell people that they have to sign all their worldly possessions over to me. California here I come. LMAO
OOoo! Ooooo! I want to be the first charter member!

Look, Knightmare! Your first customer! :-p

(Though why Robert wants to get rid of all his worldly possessions, does puzzle me.)

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Message 371353 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 5:18:01 UTC - in response to Message 371346.  

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM...


Tue 07.18 >>
Adam the DreamHealer will talk about the nature of healing, how intention influences our health, and how intuition and telepathy work.

First Hour: Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intell. Network reports on Hezbollah's threats to U.S. interests.

I don't know about you...but listening to George tell us that the end of the world is starting now always makes MY day. lmao

Ahhh, I saw that tv show about 'Adam the Healer'....this guy....pfft. You'll hear! His claims get more and more outrageous the longer he's allowed to speak. I'd suggest to him he go and prove his abilities to claim James Randi's million dollar prize but he's already making over a million dollars a year selling conference tickets, books, and DVD's to the hopelessy ill. :-(


I think I need to come up with a good scam. Or maybe I will just start a cult and tell people that they have to sign all their worldly possessions over to me. California here I come. LMAO
OOoo! Ooooo! I want to be the first charter member!
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Message 371349 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 5:14:43 UTC - in response to Message 371323.  

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM...


Tue 07.18 >>
Adam the DreamHealer will talk about the nature of healing, how intention influences our health, and how intuition and telepathy work.

First Hour: Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intell. Network reports on Hezbollah's threats to U.S. interests.

I don't know about you...but listening to George tell us that the end of the world is starting now always makes MY day. lmao

Yeah, I've taken his word for it and am going to start running up massive credit card debt I'll never have to pay back.....Bring on the strippers!


Hmmm...maybe this would be a good time to break down and actually GET a credit card or two. The bill collectors won't have a whole lot of time left to catch up with me. : - )

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Message 371346 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 5:12:52 UTC - in response to Message 371341.  

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM...


Tue 07.18 >>
Adam the DreamHealer will talk about the nature of healing, how intention influences our health, and how intuition and telepathy work.

First Hour: Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intell. Network reports on Hezbollah's threats to U.S. interests.

I don't know about you...but listening to George tell us that the end of the world is starting now always makes MY day. lmao

Ahhh, I saw that tv show about 'Adam the Healer'....this guy....pfft. You'll hear! His claims get more and more outrageous the longer he's allowed to speak. I'd suggest to him he go and prove his abilities to claim James Randi's million dollar prize but he's already making over a million dollars a year selling conference tickets, books, and DVD's to the hopelessy ill. :-(


I think I need to come up with a good scam. Or maybe I will just start a cult and tell people that they have to sign all their worldly possessions over to me. California here I come. LMAO

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Message 371341 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 5:04:10 UTC - in response to Message 371317.  

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM...


Tue 07.18 >>
Adam the DreamHealer will talk about the nature of healing, how intention influences our health, and how intuition and telepathy work.

First Hour: Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intell. Network reports on Hezbollah's threats to U.S. interests.

I don't know about you...but listening to George tell us that the end of the world is starting now always makes MY day. lmao

Ahhh, I saw that tv show about 'Adam the Healer'....this guy....pfft. You'll hear! His claims get more and more outrageous the longer he's allowed to speak. I'd suggest to him he go and prove his abilities to claim James Randi's million dollar prize but he's already making over a million dollars a year selling conference tickets, books, and DVD's to the hopelessy ill. :-(

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Message 371323 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 4:27:39 UTC - in response to Message 371317.  

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM...


Tue 07.18 >>
Adam the DreamHealer will talk about the nature of healing, how intention influences our health, and how intuition and telepathy work.

First Hour: Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intell. Network reports on Hezbollah's threats to U.S. interests.

I don't know about you...but listening to George tell us that the end of the world is starting now always makes MY day. lmao

Yeah, I've taken his word for it and am going to start running up massive credit card debt I'll never have to pay back.....Bring on the strippers!
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Message 371317 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 4:14:54 UTC

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM...


Tue 07.18 >>
Adam the DreamHealer will talk about the nature of healing, how intention influences our health, and how intuition and telepathy work.

First Hour: Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intell. Network reports on Hezbollah's threats to U.S. interests.

I don't know about you...but listening to George tell us that the end of the world is starting now always makes MY day. lmao

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Message 371316 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 4:12:56 UTC - in response to Message 371315.  

We've got to figure out what's on Whacky Radio tonight.


I was just heading to the site to get the show schedule for tonight

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Message 371315 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 4:12:08 UTC

We've got to figure out what's on Whacky Radio tonight.
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Message 371314 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 4:10:32 UTC - in response to Message 371310.  

I was agreeing with you you, dolt...lol :-)


Whoops. Silly me...lmao


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Message 371310 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 4:06:14 UTC

I was agreeing with you you, dolt...lol :-)
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Message 371299 - Posted: 19 Jul 2006, 3:37:10 UTC - in response to Message 370871.  

The goals of martyrdom and establishing states run by fundamentalist Islam are not necessarily incompatible. One doesn't exclude the other.


Ummm, did I infer that they were? If I did, that wasn't my intention at all.

The thing is...they ( al Qaeda ) don't seem to be LOOKING for Islamic states...they are looking for Worldwide Islam and they don't seem to be willing to settle for anything less than that.

We in the U.S. are the Infidels. Al Qaeda wants us all destroyed. Kinda ruins my day lol. I have done nothing to them, but if I was in the wrong place at the wrong time...I would be S.O.L. simply because I happen to live in the U.S.

Fortunately, Al Qaeda doesn't seem to have much interest in blowing up a sugar processing plant, so for the time being, I think I am in pretty good shape.

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Message 370871 - Posted: 18 Jul 2006, 19:23:47 UTC

The goals of martyrdom and establishing states run by fundamentalist Islam are not necessarily incompatible. One doesn't exclude the other.
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Message 370809 - Posted: 18 Jul 2006, 16:16:50 UTC - in response to Message 370652.  

This means basically nothing since al Qaeda doesn't CARE how many people it loses. Human losses mean nothing to them. They all think they are going to be at the right hand of God for becoming martyrs.

That's not true Knightmare, you're buying their propaganda to scare people. You don't see Osama Bin Laden walking into a cafe in Tel Aviv to blow himself up, now do you? Nope, that's for the cannon fodder to do.

If it's simple as the martyrdom you suggest, let them all go and blow themselves up tomorrow in one massive Judgment Day. Maybe heaven has room for them, but we sure as hell don't. ;)


You basically just strengthened my point though. You are right in saying that Osama isn't going to be walking into a cafe anytime soon. That only means that he is smart enough to know that there is plenty of " cannon fodder " out there. The ones that are buying into the propaganda are the foolish ones who think that blowing themselves up is the smart thing to do. THEY are the ones that don't care about dying. THEY are the ones that are convinced that they will be held as martyrs and get a higher place in the afterlife. Bin Laden is smart enough to figure out " why do it yourself when there are PLENTY of others to do it instead "?

I would be willing to bet that ole' Bin Laden sits there and chuckles to himself when he thinks of how easy it is to get people to commit murder/suicide on his behalf. He is no better than Charles Manson, and claiming that he works for Allah doesn't change that fact.

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Message 370652 - Posted: 18 Jul 2006, 8:45:24 UTC

This means basically nothing since al Qaeda doesn't CARE how many people it loses. Human losses mean nothing to them. They all think they are going to be at the right hand of God for becoming martyrs.

That's not true Knightmare, you're buying their propaganda to scare people. You don't see Osama Bin Laden walking into a cafe in Tel Aviv to blow himself up, now do you? Nope, that's for the cannon fodder to do.

If it's simple as the martyrdom you suggest, let them all go and blow themselves up tomorrow in one massive Judgment Day. Maybe heaven has room for them, but we sure as hell don't. ;)

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Dude....that rocks....lmao

I always THOUGHT there was something funny going on down there in Bermuda....lmao
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Message 370552 - Posted: 18 Jul 2006, 3:13:44 UTC

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM ( better known as Wacky AM )


Mon 07.17 >>
Investigative journalist and documentary producer Jack Cashill will cover developments in the investigation of TWA flight 800 on the 10 year anniversary of the crash.

First Hour:
Howard Bloom shares updates on the Middle East and his work in the space industry. Related Link: bigbangtango.net

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Message 370381 - Posted: 17 Jul 2006, 22:26:25 UTC

Where are the lies? Robert, what if it turns out that there WAS some kind of strange conspiracy involved with the 9/11 attacks? That would seem to move it from the realm of irrationality into the realm of " good solid scholarship.



I've had professors shoe-horn 9/11 into courses before, but at least it had some relevance to the issue at hand. One was a course of logic and reasoning, and the professor decided to push a "the administration hasn't provided every last dram of evidence therefore the whole thing is a CIA plot" agenda in the class. Nice to get a logical fallacy from a logic teacher...


I completely agree. As much as Robert likes to say that I am illogical on occasion, even I can see where that would fall into being an illogical idea. Refer to my statement about the statements being made in the correct forums. My statement was as follows....
I will say though, that I don't know if that particular forum would be the proper place to bring them up. Unless of course the discussion began based on the motives of the perpetrators.

...I stand by that statement. Making an illogical assumption based on the evidence that HASN'T been released is exceptionally illogical.

My ideas about a " conspiracy " are based on " evidence " that HAS been released.

It is equally obvious that al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks -- via media channels hostile to and outside the control of the US -- and the terror organization has not veered from that claim despite huge and mounting losses on their side.


This means basically nothing since al Qaeda doesn't CARE how many people it loses. Human losses mean nothing to them. They all think they are going to be at the right hand of God for becoming martyrs.

This course was about the religion of Islam. It was not a reasoning course, or a forensics course, or a political science course, and only tangentally a history course. The professor is pushing an agenda and exercising poor scholarship.


Refer to my statement on pushing the agenda in the proper forum.

As far as I know, the gentleman in question IS consistent in his teaching. I haven't heard or read anything about him changing his opinion.


Having never changed one's opinion is a sign of a closed mind.


Yes it is. And having a closed mind is one of the worst things a person can have.






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