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RE: Planetary defenses

From: Noah Doyle <nvdoyle@m...>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:52:31 -0500
Subject: RE: Planetary defenses

Thomas Barclay writes:

>In the interests of political correctness and brotherly
>understanding, I have provided translations of your obviously
>unfortunate and poorly informed word choices. No doubt a fault of
>society's very fabric rather than any personal defficiency....

>> a) You might be an alien attacker with motivation incomprehensible to
>> humans

>a) You might be a non-terrestrial sentient being with motivations
>which appear difficult to understand unless due consideration for
>your racial physiology, history, biology, sociology, and culture is
>applied.

>> b) You might be a religious/political fanatic with motivation
>> incomprehensible to sane humans :-)

>b) You might be a terran or non-terrestrial sentient of spiritual
>inclination whose World View encompasses a very different set of
>ethnic, cultural, mythological, and non-secular belief objects. This
>non-scientific and possibly holistic approach may seem unfathomable
>to technocratic secularists, but with due empathy and open minded
>consideration they could surely come to appreciate the values of your
>religious tradition (and if not, God knows what to do with them).

Tom, you must have gone to the same college as I did.  A big rock is now

arcing over towards your location.  Duck and cover.  Have a nice day.

Noah
Who really thought he was a moderate until school.

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