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what is that?

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Originally posted by bot 6
what is that?
It's like a light bulb when you turn it on. Otherwise it's a fantasy dreamed up to give liberals and socialists providing something to crowd around and unite under. Kind of like a cult.

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Originally posted by bot 6
what is that?
Its the end of the world, but I guess world destruction is not worth the effort of going to war.

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Originally posted by bot 6
what is that?
Yes the sky is always falling! It's like all the hobgoblins that came before it... iconic theories of impending doom that were irrefutable, unassailable truths held to be the "consensus" view of science at the time. Each a sacred cow paraded in the media by concerned politicians, left-wing intellectuals and scientists predicting the end of modern society. Each of these impending catastrophes was touted by "experts" as the most significant threat to civilisation since the Ice Age. From the early seventies we have been successively frightened by the spectres of another Ice Age, a nuclear winter, the Jupiter Effect, the China Syndrome, acid rain, the Doomsday Asteroid, the Greenhouse Effect, ozone depletion, Y2K, SARS, anthrax, global warming, climate change and bird flu. Affluent Western societies, always fearful of the potentials of obesity epidemics, overpopulation and African killer bees, expect such calamities to overtake them. We live our lives in constant fear of impending disaster as though God had it in for the human race. We are running out of oil and water and soon there will be standing room only. The end is always nigh.

The American libertarian, Henry Louis Mencken, once said, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".

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Originally posted by SpastiGov
The American libertarian, Henry Louis Mencken, once said, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
Do you think global terrorism one of these?

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Originally posted by Wheely
Do you think global terrorism one of these?
??? 9/11 wasn't a significant strike then?

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Originally posted by SpastiGov
Yes the sky is always falling! It's like all the hobgoblins that came before it... iconic theories of impending doom that were irrefutable, unassailable truths held to be the "consensus" view of science at the time. Each a sacred cow paraded in the media by concerned politicians, left-wing intellectuals and scientists predicting the end of modern society. to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
Do you have a life?

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Originally posted by SpastiGov
Yes the sky is always falling!
Or, the ice is always melting. The Alps are losing all their snow at a rate that the Swiss, at least, find alarming, but skiiing is an elitist pursuit, so it hardly matters.

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"I...lies" (Peter Whitehead).

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Originally posted by wittywonka
Do you have a life?
I have a life -- a pretty darn good one as a matter of fact. That's why I will resist the coming "global warming" purges and show trials by lambasting the nincompoops and ninnyhammers who think or say the sky is falling and want me to make sacrifices while they stay in their 20,000 sq. feet compounds with the air conditioner set on 58 degrees.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
I have a life -- a pretty darn good one as a matter of fact. That's why I will resist the coming "global warming" purges and show trials by lambasting the nincompoops and ninnyhammers who think or say the sky is falling and want me to make sacrifices while they stay in their 20,000 sq. feet compounds with the air conditioner set on 58 degrees.
I doubt there's enough space in Vanuatu for one of those.

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Originally posted by wittywonka
Do you have a life?
I think he's c&ping his own posts now. Or he's set up a computer program to reply instantly to any global warming thread on this forum.

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global warming?

forgot England in 2007.

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Originally posted by SpastiGov
The American libertarian, Henry Louis Mencken, once said, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
So does that mean that there is no and could never be any threat to society as we know it?

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