Re: Dawkins was right all along

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2001 - 20:33:26 BST

  • Next message: Kenneth Van Oost: "Re: Dawkins was right all along" 

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA03181 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:33:50 +0100
Message-ID: <000901c1439d$9400ee60$36a2bed4@default>
From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
References: <JJEIIFOCALCJKOFDFAHBAEKLDHAA.richard@brodietech.com> <1000981990.3ba9c5e616f85@rugth1.phys.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:33:26 +0200
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

    Hi Philip,

    For more about this subject, see my initial post of last September 18
    Re: Saudi Billionaire....
    IMO, everybody seems to forget the mechanism behind these events.
    Paradise or not, it is the way for getting there, the suicide, that counts
    !!
    I don 't know about Islam, but in most religions suicide is condemned.
    If of course, committing suicide in order to wipe out your enemies is the
    best way to get to heaven, well, this would sound strange and odd from
    a God's point of view...

    Regards,

    Kenneth

    ( I am ,because we are)

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Philip Jonkers <P.A.E.Jonkers@phys.rug.nl>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:33 PM
    Subject: Dawkins was right all along

    > Hi everyone,
    >
    > Yesterday I saw this documentary on Dutch television
    > which was about the motives that propelled suicide commando's
    > to sacrifice their lives. The documentary featured interviews
    > with some `lucky' survivors of a failed suicide mission.
    >
    > As Dawkins anticipated in the here much discussed article
    > it was all about religion indeed.
    > The promise made to potential suicide bombers by religious
    > authorities were: Not only the successful bomber goes straight
    > to paradise/heaven but his entire family and friends can cosily
    > come along! Also the ideal age of the ideally single
    > terrorists is between 18 and 24. Needless to say, this
    > `attractive' promise was not taken lightly by potential
    > candidates/martyrs; males in the mentioned age category actually
    > lined up (!!) to surrender their lives by becoming living bombs
    > and thus acquiring a place in paradise for themselves and their
    > relatives and fiends. It is very alarming to know that the
    > people rounding up suicide commando's actually had to invoke
    > selection procedures to filter out the most able candidates!
    >
    > Ain't that sweet a heaven filling itself up with suicide bombers!
    >
    > Philip.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > ===============================================================
    > This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    > Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    > For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    >

    ===============================================================
    This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Sep 23 2001 - 23:38:59 BST