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Message from a Time Traveler
Dan Simmons - Official Web Site ^ | April 1, 2006 | Dan Simmons

Posted on 04/06/2006 4:33:24 AM PDT by Mr170IQ

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To: Windsong

Wait until Musharraf is gone. About 5 minutes. Do you understand the difference between an Islamic regime and a secular dictator?


221 posted on 04/06/2006 10:12:31 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Since all politicians understand is money, I donate ONLY to those who oppose illegal immigration)
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To: MikefromOhio

"ever" is a long time, Mike.

demographic displacement is a proven method of regime change throughout history; it is one muslims have used in the past; it is one muslims are using in the present (sudan, for example).

westerners make an error in believing that an enemy must be clearly defined, uniformly inimical in every variant, organized centrally, coordinated, and deliberate.

this is not so.

an enemy need only be irretrievably ALIEN.
as regards western culture and mores: not all muslims are such, but Islam itself is.


222 posted on 04/06/2006 10:12:56 AM PDT by King Prout (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT.)
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To: Cold Heat
It is a religion that is ripe for reform and one that does have some basis to do so

Islam cannot be reformed and remain islam. The koran clearly commands them to fight against us.

The root of it stems from the intentional intertwining of religion and government. A problem also faced by Christianity and most other religions.

Christianity does not intertwine with government at all. The Christian kingdom is not of this world but of the next. We are commanded as Christians to submit to those in authority over us as far as we can without violating biblical direction.

In Islam however secular and religious government are inextricably joined.

223 posted on 04/06/2006 10:14:48 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: tonycavanagh
I'll make this simple for you. Linear attrition does not work on a rapidly growing population. Yes i know exactly how the WOT is being fought. It is not enough by 5 fold.
224 posted on 04/06/2006 10:15:25 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: Mr170IQ; Berosus; Cincinatus' Wife; Coleus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
Thanks, Mr170IQ, for posting this!

Bump!
225 posted on 04/06/2006 10:16:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: andie74
You won't like this.. Fiction but has the stench of truth to it.
226 posted on 04/06/2006 10:25:40 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: E Rocc
But our enemy is not all of Islam, but a small part of it.

You just bet your life on it. bye-bye

227 posted on 04/06/2006 10:31:14 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: hosepipe

Thanks for the ping!


228 posted on 04/06/2006 10:38:00 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Mr170IQ

It's been a while since I read such B.S. The past can be changed if you spell out exactly what is going to happen if you don't change the future.


229 posted on 04/06/2006 10:48:00 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Paul C. Jesup

Source please?


230 posted on 04/06/2006 10:56:57 AM PDT by null and void (We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle)
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To: nnn0jeh; TR Jeffersonian

ping


231 posted on 04/06/2006 10:58:15 AM PDT by kalee
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To: Mr170IQ

Bookmark!


232 posted on 04/06/2006 10:58:59 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: tonycavanagh
Islam is no where near uniting, who or which country will they unite under.

Which Islamic movement is strong enough to unite the Islamic people.

They have tried it at least 3 times in the past.

Just because you think they are weak now doesn't mean they wouldn't unite if they could overthrow "The Great Satan."
The Islamic country that has three long range ballistic missiles, “Shehab-one, Shehab-two, and Shehab-three" would surely be a uniting force.

233 posted on 04/06/2006 11:00:23 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken.)
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To: ksen; Rose in RoseBear
I think the words are, "I am you."

I don't think so, because I think the Time Traveller is actually the author's grandson (the one still fighting).

I don't think the words are in the story. They're described as "Three words that any Replayer or time traveler visiting here from a century or more from now would react to first and most emotionally...." The author uses two examples of such words in the story: first, from the novel Replay, when the time traveller there posted ads that read, "Do you remember Three Mile Island, Challenger, Watergate, Reaganomics?..." The second example was when the author thought of what words he would use to contact a time traveller in 1900: "Auschwitz, I was sure, and Hiroshima and Trinity Site and Holocaust and Hitler and Stalin and ..."

So I think the words are on that order, three words that refer to people, places, or events that everyone from the Time Traveller's time would recognize as significant, but anyone in our time would be baffled by.

234 posted on 04/06/2006 11:03:00 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (All hail Xenu!)
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To: Mr170IQ
Seems that we have some Neville Chamberlains even here at Free Republic.. even here.. Multiply that number by hundreds or thousands or more in the general population.. The "tone" of this article is so right on.. actually scarey right on..

ANY that don't expect the best BUT prepare for the WORST.. is a fool.. You see an optimist, mark him(usually her), as one in almost total denial..

235 posted on 04/06/2006 11:03:11 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: Mr170IQ
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236 posted on 04/06/2006 11:05:18 AM PDT by Tribune7
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237 posted on 04/06/2006 11:08:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: RedRightReturn

They came up three times. Oh, I don't want to give it away. Three words, three times.


238 posted on 04/06/2006 11:08:26 AM PDT by Slip18
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239 posted on 04/06/2006 11:11:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: null and void
Source please?

I am just stating the obvious. In the story, the time travel states that events cannot be changed and then the time traveler starts talking in riddles.

But should you state clearly what could happen, then it can be changed.

240 posted on 04/06/2006 11:11:37 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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