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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3149)	1/7/2006 2:32:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217862

<isn't a behaviour the action of the mind ?> I suppose I was being pedantic, but giving up smoking, and changing other things, such as how we eat, is treated as changing what we do, rather than changing how we think, as though what we do is something external to ourselves, rather than, as you say, just a manifestation of how we think. Having identity "I am a smoker", but deciding, "I will stop myself smoking", seems to set up a constant battle with oneself. Deciding, "I am not a smoker" and adopting that identity, then makes smoking irrelevant and stopping isn't a problem as one simply isn't a smoker. The Iranian identity "I am an Islamic Jihadist and am going to do in the infidels" is the problem, rather than the noocular bombs. Bombs are just the worst enabler currently available to them. Persuading them that they aren't Islamic Jihadists is probably better than simply blowing up their noocular bomb facilities. Though, as with Japan and Germany, blowing them up helps them change their thinking when they experience what bad ideas their previous concepts were. Unfortunately, it seems that Islamic Jihad wants to pretend that they can do a better job than the Nazis. I expect that it will become essential to stop them before they invade Poland, annex Austria and start murdering those they dislike. They have long ago started the murdering. Beslan was an example of the complete horror of their ideas. They are probably not open to persuasion. Mqurice

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3149)	1/7/2006 5:43:11 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217862

'Ethnicity is a crock It's another form of club based upon genetic expression.' But that's never enough. It is necessary to use other mechanisms to solidify the concept 'us vs them'. It is necessary to display the outsiders and bad, less intelligent, and having attitudes and behaviour that the particular group abhors. Hence the need to throw muck at the outsiders to help solidify the concept 'we'. This ethnicyt thing was much easier to establish when people were led to believe in stereotypes. For instancejust to show two diametrically opposed stereotypes: There was a time when people believed that: we loved soccer, like to stay under a tree on the beach and loved samba. Germans were rigid. Hard working. Respected law and order. Were ponctual. Now with much more information going faster around and cheaper flights is hard to solidify these stereotypes and create a concept of 'we vs them'. The truth come out. The US has always been a case apart because it has Hollywood and that's hard to beat.