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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220026)	2/21/2007 3:20:46 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

There are plenty of sane people who believe in conspiracy theories. I don't happen to agree with them (any of them) but I can't call them lunatics. I just call them conspiracy theorists. I've never understood believing in a religion or god either, but I'm not going to call people who do that lunatics either- and it seems about the same sort of thing, to me. It's just accepting a weird premise without asking for the kind of proof that a very concrete logical person would accept- and once you understand the premise accepted, the rest flows from the premise.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220026)	2/21/2007 3:58:42 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

the majority of the Muslim world believes that 4000 Jews didn't show up for work on 9/11, and that 9/11 was simultaneously done by OBL AND a CIA plot. I call such thinking lunatic. Why do you limit it to that example? Why not the belief in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; the blood libels; the suicide bombings; the stoning, headhacking, limb-chopping, and flogging; the routine resort to assassination as a means of settling political differences; the torture; the genocide(s); the tolerance/admiration of dictators and despots; the sexism; etc., etc., ad nauseum. It's not just one thing, but the whole crazy gestalt which leads me to consider the culture a lunatic and delusional one.