[lit-ideas] Re: New Iranian Fatwa: Religious Law Does Not Forbid Use of N...
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:55:29 EST
<<As someone who learned to bend over and kiss my ass goodbye in civil
defense drills in elementary school in the 1950s, read _A Canticle for
Leibowitz_ as a teenager, and held my breath through the Cuban Missle
Crisis,>>
And here I thought I was the only one with that particular combination of
experiences ....but I did, somewhat masochistically, enlarge my reading of
apocalyptic literature -- Red Dawn, lots of Arthur Clarke, Alas Babylon, etc.
Of
course being raised in an Evangelical environment where the Preachers could
tell you to the minute when all life was going to end, courtesy of numeric
derivations from the book of Revelation, did make it a bit more
interesting.....
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: New Iranian
Fatwa: Religious Law Does Not Forbid Use of Nuclear Weapons Date: 2/16/06
6:47:50
P.M. Central Standard Time From: _john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxxx
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On 2/17/06, Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That's truly a tragic situation. I do my best to
> hide my feelings on the matter with jokes and
> military blather, but it is truly tragic. So many
> superb people at the mercy of technological destiny.
>
>
As someone who learned to bend over and kiss my ass goodbye in civil
defense drills in elementary school in the 1950s, read _A Canticle for
Leibowitz_ as a teenager, and held my breath through the Cuban Missle
Crisis, I have to take that "at the mercy of technological destiny"
with a large grain of salt.
--
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN
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