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>Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:57:05 -0700
> Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> extropians@extropy.org new offensive strategiesReply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
>> We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
>> regressive force now operating in society.
>
>How to deal with a nation that has no apparent targets worth
>the price of a single missile? I had an idea, one perhaps Greg
>Burch might comment on, he being a new student of Arab
>thought.
>
>We have really good printing technology. We can print and
>bind books for almost nothing. How about if we print truckloads
>of korae, except each one with one altered verse? If we get
>clever, we could print a million of them, each with a different
>altered verse, bind them with pre-aged covers, so they could
>not be distinguished easily from the originals without reading
>the entire thing, carefully. If those get into circulation, print a
>new set with the old altered verse plus an additional altered verse.
>In each case these altered verses reverse the meaning of the original.
>I figure one cruise missile aimed at scorched and barren desert
>would cost about the same as one truckload of korae. spike
>
You could not provoke a more rabid reply if the books you dropped were copies of Salman Rushdie's SATANIC VERSES; in fact if you wanted to render the terrorists rash and careless, a targeted drop of same at their camp sites might well be advised.
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