<html>
<body>
Please remove this discussions on conspiracy theories off this
list. <br><br>
Thank you,<br><br>
Natasha <br><br>
Natasha Vita-More<br><br>
<br>
At 07:54 AM 10/10/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 10/9/07, Stathis Papaioannou
<stathisp@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
> On 09/10/2007, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > "Conspiracy theorist" being defined as an
"Al-Qaeda conspiracy theorist" or<br>
> > a "Bush administration conspiracy theorist"?<br>
> ><br>
> > Or does it work with both? :-)<br>
><br>
> He was a Bush administration conspiracy theorist, but I guess it
would<br>
> work with both. The striking thing in this case was that he
could,<br>
> quite reasonably, point out that many people around the world
share<br>
> his beliefs. At this point, there would have been no indication
to<br>
> diagnose a mental illness. However, he became increasingly
preoccupied<br>
> with proving his theory to the point where he was neglecting his
work<br>
> and his family, and eventually started thinking that the
Americans<br>
> might try to kill him because he knew too much.<br><br>
Why, if it works also with Al-Qaeda/Iraq conspiracy theorists, and
one<br>
replace "American" with "Muslims", some might argue
that Mr. Bush<br>
himself would correspond quite well to your description... :-)<br><br>
Stefano Vaj<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" eudora="autourl">
http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br><br>
<br>
-- <br>
No virus found in this incoming message.<br>
Checked by AVG Free Edition. <br>
Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.6/1060 - Release Date:
10/9/2007 4:43 PM</blockquote>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<dl>
<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha</a>
<a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"> Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate, CAiiA situated in the Faculty of Technology, School of
Computing, Communications and Electronics,
<dd>University of Plymouth, UK
<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
Culture</a>
<dd><a href="http://extropy.org/">Thinking About the
</a><a href="http://extropy.org/">Future</a> <br><br>
</font>
<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
<br><br></font>
</dl></body>
</html>