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To: Lane3 who wrote (204153)	4/25/2007 2:42:39 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 793978

"Al Gore's movie and been converted." they forced the kids at my sons' school to watch it. Most of the boys were laughing at it the whole time. The English and history teachers were fuming at them and the Math and science teachers were cheering the boys on. That should tell you something

To: Lane3 who wrote (204153)	4/25/2007 3:45:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793978

I'm sure they have something like a sense of humor. But nobody likes to be made fun of like Crow did if she wasn't serious.

To: Lane3 who wrote (204153)	4/25/2007 4:00:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793978

I have a good friend of 35 years standing, who went with one of their sons to see it. The friend is a hydrocarbon exploration and production reservoir engineering operations manager. He's highly intelligent. Not a greenie other than of course he likes things nice, like all of us. He didn't come out religious from it, but he was quite adamant than I really should see it which might help me get a clue. I was surprised. Without understanding more than the most superficial details, people become imbued with a religious fervour which is amazing to me. See a movie and convert. Richard Branson is over the top. He has hired a young woman I know of extreme intelligence to work on biofuels. People are not just chanting a few mantras and going about their business. They are putting their cash and serious efforts into it, like people used to with real religions. Maybe it has become a global identity litmus test and people instinctively want to be on the side of good, the numbers, safely in the herd, it's a world issue, Gaia, brotherhood of man and the all-in Haj. Anyone can join a religion just by learning a few chants and songs. One doesn't have to have a theological or teleological clue - and people are specifically prohibited from thinking for themselves when the religion gets a good grip. Heresy trials, excommunication, inquisition, burnings at the stake [though those will have to be different to avoid CO2 and other pollution] are the norm. Already, the expression "Climate change deniers" is being used. Holocaust denial is an actual crime in some countries [amusingly, those which were the cause of the Holocaust and by making such a law, they perpetrate the same sort of thinking which led to the Holocaust in the first place = individuals suppressed in favour of the almighty state which will brook no opposition, or even thinking]. Climate change denial laws are needed. Mqurice