X-Message-Number: 20525 From: Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:15:54 EST Subject: Re:#20517Ludd of the Rings --part1_e6.323b6a58.2b1916ea_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Plus said: <<If the Asperger's cases who seem attracted to Tolkien etc. would rather play fantasy games instead of doing some useful scientific & technological work, then the outlook could become dire. I'm finding this trend especially unsettling because it seems to mirror the outlook of our Muslim adversaries, who definitely want to impose a premodern fantasy vision of pure Islam on the rest of the world>> Well said, I suggest more serious fantaisies: - Make dust fair: An X-ray black powder hable to render convective the full mass of the Sun (giving it a 600 billion years life). - A promotion action in favor of the "tontons macoute", the bad spirites of Haitian folklore and make a tax on their use. - A study of Cindirella pumplekinds and how to turn them into state-coaches. - A study of the hopscotch and how much it cost to the taxpayer. - Sending back the holy ghost to Central Park. Bye, Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_e6.323b6a58.2b1916ea_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] DS, he condemn more than forty millions people to the grave. Making 10 000 deaths with a tactical nuke on the HQ of such an organization would be a global benefit. Well you may try to convince the pope he is wrong... Good luck. More generally, any social system: religion, politics or anything else disconnected from the reality of the physical laws will goes awry soon or later with dire consequences. Militarized communism ( see North Corea) or speculative capitalism (see USA) are good to go in the same bag as is nationalism (see India, USA,...) There are some special countries with good democratic practices, France to name one, where to compete in a presidential election, you must have said that the nazi gas chambers was a "detail" or that immigrants have an odor problem. The odor won the last ballot... If you think that "diatribe" is OT, well, but forget about the technological survivability of the society, and then what is the point about cryonics? Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_136.17c536fe.2b1916e9_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20525