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All right, my comments are not for other people to pimp their blogs with long-winded articles.

Reply to my posts or other comments.

The particular comment, now deleted, is by one who did not bother to read my post on conspiracy theories.

To sum up the laws of realistic conspiracy theory,

1. Stupidity is more likely than malice. Known sources of stupidity such as bureaucratic inertia explain why ‘the government let it happen’ much better than talk of sinister collusion with other forces. An evil plan takes advantage of the government’s sluggishness, not its politicians looking for power plays.

2. In order to convince people of a lie, you simply have to tell it to them, and then control the most likely places they will go to fact-check you. People are curious enough to investigate some of the things people tell them, but lazy enough to not do very much investigation.

3. Misdirection buys a lot of time for the evil plan. There is a lot to be said about timing, but do not confuse a logical chain of cause and effect, action and reaction, for a conspiracy flow chart.

Repost of a comment I left in Mohamsterdance

George guy said…

It’s always amazing how obviously false is the idea that the Scriptures given to the Jews and Christians have become as corrupted as Islam says.

The Dead Sea scrolls and other ancient copies of the text show just how faithful, to the point of what some might describe as obsessive compulsion, those who copied the Scripture were. The rate of error is so phenomenally low, it is impossible to interpret the statement that “the Jews’ and Christians’ Scriptures are corrupt from their original meaning” as something other than a complete falsehood.

The despicable slaughter of Christians, not only Roman Catholics but Orthodox and Protestant, the latter two having no connection to the pope, shows just how mad, insane, and bloodthirsty the Islamic noise machine is.

You think you know something about God when you come in here to ‘warn’ the ‘kuffar‘ of supernatural woes. So I am asking you, anonymous Muslim heckler, to consider this, even though there are many who doubt your willingness to do so.

In the beginning, the world was perfect. And yet God allowed the world to be handed over to the forces of sin. Evil was allowed to flourish, and we have been stuck with the result ever since. That is because there was a greater good that had to be preserved. Something that God refused to violate even if it meant allowing all other forms of righteousness to be suspended, because all other forms of righteousness would be worthless without it. That is of course freedom. The freedom to make our own choices and our own judgements. It is as sacred as that.

I don’t expect you to change religions over this.
I only expect you to understand why I will not submit.

9/17/2006 08:07:38 PM

I am seriously angry about the recent killings supposedly provoked by one of Pope Benedict XVI’s statements. I will draw a cartoon. If the cartoon turns out to be excellent, I expect an excellent fatwah calling for my death.

Ah, television.

I was watching the new season premier of House, all in all rather good. And I didn’t bother to change the channel, and so was rewarded with the first episode of Standoff.

Reasonably good, I don’t know if I’ll watch it regularly. A series about hostage negotiators isn’t the most thrilling thing in the world, but I will watch it at least a couple more times to see how it goes.

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I give them one and a half thumbs up for having a Muslim terrorist on the first episode.

Of course, he’s not the stereotypical person of Arabic extraction, but an American of Caucasian ancestry. Understandable, I give no demerits for that.

What was disappointing though was that they felt like they had to soften things even more by making the villain’s crisis about his dysfunctional relationship with his mother, and he was just using Islam as an excuse. The terrorism expert says if he were a real suicide bomber, there would be no realistic possibility of negotiating with him, and the day is saved only because he is actually a plain run of the mill disturbed twenty-year-old.

That seems like a bit of a copout.

A civilization is shaped to a considerable extent by its entertainment. We tell stories to reflect reality. The best stories are those that reveal some truth about life. Stories are told mainly to tell either what really happened, what might have happened, or what we wish happened.

Now, if by putting a twist on what seems at first glance to be a stereotypical “Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad” terrorist attack but is actually slightly different, is meant just for having an original plot line, fine. If however, it is meant to give lip service to the existence of Islamic terror while cutting out the substance by injecting as much political correctness as possible, then shame on them.

Of course I could be overanalyzing things, but with the recent problems with South Park, you have to wonder to what extent the entertainment industry is consciously tiptoeing around the issue.

Is it an intellectually honest attempt at creativity, or a wishful attempt at denying the existence of a large threat fueled by madness, by dissecting it into a bunch of tiny ones fueled by semi-rationalized dysfunctional relationships?

That’s a question that has to be answered.

I’m not saying every TV series and movie for the next five years should feature Wahhabi Islamic supremacists as the bad guys, or even lots of them. Just a couple would be enough.

The point is this:
Trying to be clever is okay.
Trying to deflect hostility from the real world’s bad guys by softening them up on TV is not so good.

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