The Mose Powerful Weapon Ever

T.s.a.o · Post by **T.s.a.o** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:37 pm

This is just to test out the tinyurl suggestion, and bring out another huge stone-throwing debate on me. I must be a masochist.
http://tinyurl.com/ftj63 -click there please.

EdBecerra · Post by **EdBecerra** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:48 am

t.s.a.o wrote:This is just to test out the tinyurl suggestion, and bring out another huge stone-throwing debate on me. I must be a masochist.
http://tinyurl.com/ftj63 -click there please.

Took me straight to a "BaptistBoard" posting, and some interesting discourse.

Worked fine.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:17 am

I still say the most powerfull weapon we've got is Solidus

oh, and the link worked for me too.

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:24 am

Meh. Read the article: unimpressed.

People have been talking about government "controlling people's perceptions" and "winning hearts and minds" for centuries. The best they can ever hope for is a temporary hold at best; people's perceptions are as slippery as greased jello.

Besides which, when a group of people start plathering about "winning hearts and minds" its generally a good sign that they haven't got the brains, guts, or will to win the actual fight.... and they're hoping to somehow win a conflict through headgames rather than hard work and sacrifice.

Take this to the bank: the only time anyone has ever won a population's "hearts and minds" is after thoroughly kicking their tails first.

T.s.a.o · Post by **T.s.a.o** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:39 pm

or sacrificed themselves, as you and I well know....

Calbeck · Post by **Calbeck** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:17 pm

RHJunior wrote:Take this to the bank: the only time anyone has ever won a population's "hearts and minds" is after thoroughly kicking their tails first.

Pretty much. Even after WWII, when we were trying to re-educate the German people, virtually everything we told them was at first rejected off the cuff as "Allied propaganda". Including pix of the Holocaust. Anti-Holocaust revisionism was born from the depths of social denial.

We had to essentially hold their heads underwater, educationally speaking, until they cried "uncle". Social ideals take generations to change.

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:52 pm

Heh. I like that one girl's reply...

"These guys forgot one thing: women are unpredictable!"

I submit that men are likewise very unpredictable, especially after a few martinis...

IronFox · Post by **IronFox** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:18 pm

StrangeWulf13 wrote:Heh. I like that one girl's reply...

"These guys forgot one thing: women are unpredictable!"

I submit that men are likewise very unpredictable, especially after a few martinis...

Not only are they unpredictable, but they're really funny to watch!

JakeWasHere · Post by **JakeWasHere** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:26 am

RHJunior wrote:Meh. Read the article: unimpressed.

People have been talking about government "controlling people's perceptions" and "winning hearts and minds" for centuries. The best they can ever hope for is a temporary hold at best; people's perceptions are as slippery as greased jello.

Besides which, when a group of people start plathering about "winning hearts and minds" its generally a good sign that they haven't got the brains, guts, or will to win the actual fight.... and they're hoping to somehow win a conflict through headgames rather than hard work and sacrifice.

Take this to the bank: the only time anyone has ever won a population's "hearts and minds" is after thoroughly kicking their tails first.

For some reason, I'm reminded of the film THE MOUSE THAT ROARED. This minuscule European country decides to declare war on America, in order to get the benefits that the U.S. will send over to them after the mere formality of surrender - the US being notorious generous to their defeated enemies. Unfortunately, their scientific ministry (which consists of like three guys) thinks they're serious about going to war with America and builds a WMD, which changes the plan considerably...

LoneWolf23k · Post by **LoneWolf23k** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:05 pm

JakeWasHere wrote:For some reason, I'm reminded of the film THE MOUSE THAT ROARED. This minuscule European country decides to declare war on America, in order to get the benefits that the U.S. will send over to them after the mere formality of surrender - the US being notorious generous to their defeated enemies. Unfortunately, their scientific ministry (which consists of like three guys) thinks they're serious about going to war with America and builds a WMD, which changes the plan considerably...

Actually, the story of The Mouse that Roard is as follows:

The book and the movie based on it (in which Peter Sellers famously plays three leading characters) are set in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a forgotten pocket between France and Switzerland. Fenwick's sole export is an exceptional wine, Pinot Grand Fenwick. However, when an American vintner begins marketing an inferior but heavily advertised imitation, Fenwick's economy appears doomed. Fenwick's solution at least has the advantage of novelty: declare war on the United States. In the early years of the Cold War, this wasn't -- quite -- as absurd as it sounds. In the wake of WWII, programs like the Marshall plan poured millions of dollars into rebuilding Europe. The Fenwickian parliament reasons that if they were to lose a war with the US, the victorious Americans would do the same for them, reviving the Fenwickian economy.

The plan hits a snag when it develops that the US government doesn't believe that Fenwick exists. Their declaration of war is filed away by a State Department clerk who, unable to find Fenwick on the map, believes it a hoax. Fenwick has no choice but to take the lack of fight to the Americans. The Fenwickian army, if that's the right word, consists of a dozen men who occasionally drill with longbows and is led by Tully Bascombe, the ducal gamekeeper and a shy, amiable man with no military inclinations or abilities to speak of. Nevertheless, they pack up their bows and chainmail, board a bus for Calais, and hire a small freighter to take them to America.

They arrive in New York during a nuclear air raid drill and wander the deserted streets searching for somebody to surrender to, unaware that the population of the city is hiding in the subways. Eventually, they stumble over the laboratory of a Dr. Kokinitz, an eccentric researcher who refused to enter the shelters in order to perfect a football-sized doomsday device, the Q-bomb. Tully seizes the professor, his daughter, and the dangerously unstable Q-bomb and returns to Fenwick, suddenly giving his country the lead in the global arms race. In order to keep the world safe from the Q-bomb, the US has little choice but to surrender and, as the surrender's only provision, push the cheap knock-off wine off the market to restore Fenwick's economy.

As for the original topic.. ...Why don't we just get some of the Orbital Mind-Control Lasers the Illuminati built and point'em at Mecca?

T.s.a.o · Post by **T.s.a.o** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:14 pm

cause we dont want it to hit the Jesus followers over there? it rains on the righteousness too you know...

Narnian · Post by **Narnian** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:42 pm

shyal_malkes wrote:I still say the most powerfull weapon we've got is Solidus.

Just add baked beans ...

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:46 pm

Narnian wrote:
shyal_malkes wrote:I still say the most powerfull weapon we've got is Solidus.
Just add baked beans ...

Ah, Now I understand "Rocky the flying squirrel"...

EdBecerra · Post by **EdBecerra** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:26 pm

UncleMonty wrote:
Narnian wrote:
shyal_malkes wrote:I still say the most powerfull weapon we've got is Solidus.
Just add baked beans ...
Ah, Now I understand "Rocky the flying squirrel"...

Solidus: What are you doing with that lighter? No, no, get ba...

*boom*

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