From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 21:51:21 MDT
On 14 Sep 2002 at 17:39, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> [joe]
> > Not only do 67% of the US population belive that the Congress has
> > handles the war on terror well, 75% believe that Bush has, and 84%
> > believe that the American people have. In addition, 58% of the
> > American people now support the use of US troops to force a regime
> > change in Iraq (Gallup poll). To depose that ruthless tyrant from
> > his throne of power would eliminate our most dangerous enemy in the
> > region.
>
> [archibald]
> You have never taken any statistics classes have you?
>
Yes, I have; I can even do fast Fourier transforms; can you? And do
you even know the difference between mean, median and mode, or how
to calculate margin of error or a statistically significant difference?
>
> [joe]
> > The Saddam regime possesses or is close to possessing two key
> > prerequisites that other nations do not simultaneously possess:
> > motive and opportunity. He is driven by hatred and a personal sense
> > of fateful grandeur, and he is actively developing the means to
> > indelibly etch his name in the annals of history forevermore. We
> > simply cannot allow him to achieve such a cataclysmic ambition.
>
> [archibald]
> I could say this exact same thing about except replace Saddam with
> Bush and it would sound equally as reasonable.
>
No, it would not. Bush is driven by the felt necessity to prevent
Saddam Hussein from obtaining nukes so he will not be able to attempt
to fulfill his grandiose ambitions.
>
> The reason I never personally engaged you in conversation regarding
> Chaos Magic is because I don't think you understand how the mind works
> well enough to truly understand anything about magic. Just because you
> have read a few dictionaries does not mean you have any emotional
> intelligence.
>
Actually, my second track in my Humanities Interdisciplinary Master's is
in psychology (my four tracks are, in order, philosophy, psychology,
sociology and anthropology).
Your subscribing to crackpot conspiracy theories indicates that you lack
unemotional intelligence.
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