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Re: An armed society...(what if?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:40:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > There are 'rich guys' out there teaching the sheep how we can start to exploit
> > these same loopholes.
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> Can we please include "sheep" accusations in Godwin's law, too? I mean,
> I'm not in the habit of calling conspiracy-theorists "paranoid, raving,
> credulous buffoons," so I find it petty and annoying that non-believers of
> conspiracy theory are called sheep.
Like any self-respecting and haughty high-born conspirator, I much prefer
the term "great unwashed" to "the sheep." So let's go with that please.
> But the scale or significance is the key, not to mention the "two can keep
> a secret if one is dead" bit (was that Twain?) I mean, I'll come clean and
> confess that I (along with several "illuminated" buddies) conspired to
> switch locks on about two dozen lockers back in high school, and none of us
> broke the code of silence until I did just now. But as the number of
> conspirators increases, the chances of any one of them spilling the
> beans--even accidentally--increases as well. A huge and insidious
> multi-national Conspiracy, whose perimeter is everywhere and whose center is
> nowhere, is unlikely.
Actually, I think existence of such is mandatory, but you say unlikely,
how fascinating.
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| (...) Baaa!! (...) I like what CJ Creig said in WW once, and can't remember exact wording but here's paraphrased... "I take comfort in the fact that once 2 or more people know something, it's impossible to keep it a secret for an extended period of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) In what way are you asking? Do I think that a number of corporations are working independently, but simultaneously, to further their own wealth? Certainly, and the factions of each company are likely "conspiring" to achieve that end. Are (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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