Guest guest Posted March 10, 2002 Report Share Posted March 10, 2002 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > >>French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan To Convince >>Taliban of Non-Existence of God > > >>The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies >>revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist >>philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taliban >>zealots by proving the non-existence of God. > >> >>Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or 'Black >>Berets', will be parachuted into the combat zones to spread doubt, >>despondency and existential anomie among the enemy. Hardened by numerous >>intellectual battles fought during their long occupation of Paris's >>Left Bank, >>their first action will be to establish a number of pavement cafes at >>strategic points near the front lines. There they will drink coffee >>and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man's lonely >>isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied by a number of >>heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further spread >>dismay by sticking their tongues in the philosophers' ears every >>five minutes and looking remote and unattainable to everyone else. > >>Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his >>confidence in the success of their mission. Sorbonne graduate >>Belmondo, a very intense and unshaven young man in a black >>pullover, gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in >>a logical fallacy of the most ridiculous kind. There is no God and >>I can prove it." > >> >>Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on man's >>nauseating freedom of action with special reference to the work of >>Foucault and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. However, humanitarian >>agencies have been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane, >>pointing out that the effects of passive smoking from the >>Frenchmens' endless Gitanes could wreak a terrible toll on >>civilians in the area. -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2002 Report Share Posted March 10, 2002 > >>Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his > >>confidence in the success of their mission. Sorbonne graduate > >>Belmondo, a very intense and unshaven young man in a black > >>pullover, gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in > >>a logical fallacy of the most ridiculous kind. There is no God and > >>I can prove it." hehe. It actually could work with someone from the Taliban. The fiersest atheists are usually of former strong religious beliefs. Ys, jahnu das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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