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Originally Posted by Daybreaker";p="
It does seem to be in pretty poor taste.
But then, I watch National Lampoon movies. So what do I know. I've seen two movies this year where women are splashed with dog semen.
EDIT: That's incorrect. I apologize.
I was thinking of National Lampoon's Van Wilder and National Lampoon's Van Wilder II: The Rise of Taj. But a woman is only splashed with dog semen in the second movie. In the first movie, the dog semen is injected into donuts and eaten by fratboys, or something like that.
Dog semen gags. Risky gimmick.  |
Exactly. Precisely. You got it.
See? It worked on "you", right?
Here, let me give you another analogy. Like, in "my" case, you can probably tell "very easily" where my political values are, right? I kinda wear 'em on my sleeve, and I do that deliberately, 'cause I'm trying to continue to test my model in real time, all the time. (so far, so good.
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See, this is where..... Jeez.... you know, if Bushie would put smart guys on
this problem, instead of on partisan politicking, then I'd be a lot happier with that idiot. But ah... instead, we get the story of Karen Hughes....
But yeah, I mean, you hit the nail right on the head. Islam, is far from homogeneous. That's a "feature" of it, and one that can be used to advantage, when thinking about strategies for how to "influence" it.
You know, right now, Bushie's "strategy for how to influence it", is mainly to start wars in those countries where he thinks the governments are "especially extreme". But in my eyes, that's just putting band-aids on open sores, when what you really should be doing, is giving the patient penicillin.
And I mean, "penicillin", in this case, involves "influencing the value system". That's the
systemic cure, for the particular problem at hand, which is the
radical element of Islam.
'Cause I mean, from a
belief standpoint, radical Islamists are
exactly the same as Young-Earth creationists. There's
no difference.
But from an "influence" standpoint, it's something very different. The whole "language" is different. You gotta talk in Hadith and Sharia, instead of Leviticus and Revelations.
So I mean, it seems to me, that at the juncture of those two concepts, lies the solution.
And this "doll" thing, is exactly in that space. Isn't it? Or at least, it "could" be, if done correctly.
So I mean, yeah... you know, those hijacker dudes, a couple of 'em actually went out and visited hookers the night before or a couple nights before or something like that - remember that? There's like a whole fascinating "human nature" undercurrent in those guys, and I mean, hey, you know, if anyone wants to believe that "human nature" over there is any different than "human nature" over there, I'll be the first one to stand up and call BS. As far as I can tell, human nature hasn't changed in 10,000 years - or at least "all of recorded history".