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"chris" |
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04 May 2004 03:54:19 PM |
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favorite quotes |
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
Mark Twain
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-- Calvin to Hobbes
"Only God in his infinite wisdom could have designed the giraffe so
that at
birth it drops violently, 6 ft. onto it's head. "
-- unknown
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: favorite quotes |
05 May 2004 02:07:16 PM |
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"chris" <od488gw02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:c452700a.0405041254.1558ecac@posting.google.com...
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
Mark Twain
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-- Calvin to Hobbes
"Only God in his infinite wisdom could have designed the giraffe so
that at
birth it drops violently, 6 ft. onto it's head. "
-- unknown
"Who gives a ***** anyway." - Frank Zappa
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Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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| User: "Pan Paniscus" |
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| Title: Re: favorite quotes |
09 May 2004 09:15:22 PM |
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Jez wrote:
"chris" <od488gw02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:c452700a.0405041254.1558ecac@posting.google.com...
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
Mark Twain
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-- Calvin to Hobbes
"Only God in his infinite wisdom could have designed the giraffe so
that at
birth it drops violently, 6 ft. onto it's head. "
-- unknown
"Who gives a ***** anyway." - Frank Zappa
"Great googley moogley" - Frank Zappa
Pan
Just checkin' for ticks
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: favorite quotes |
04 May 2004 04:19:54 PM |
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"chris" <od488gw02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:c452700a.0405041254.1558ecac@posting.google.com...
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
Mark Twain
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-- Calvin to Hobbes
"Only God in his infinite wisdom could have designed the giraffe so
that at
birth it drops violently, 6 ft. onto it's head. "
-- unknown
Ahh...Twain...probably among the most quotable ever to have lived:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I
was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
or Wilde:
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of
journalism
in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch
with
the ignorance of the community.
or Shaw:
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases
to be serious when people laugh.
or W.C. Fields:
I always keep a supply of liquor handy in case I see a snake -- which
I also keep handy.
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: favorite quotes |
06 May 2004 06:32:03 AM |
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On Tue, 04 May 2004 13:54:19 -0700, chris wrote:
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also." Mark Twain
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -- Calvin to
Hobbes
"Only God in his infinite wisdom could have designed the giraffe so that
at
birth it drops violently, 6 ft. onto it's head. " -- unknown
"Champagne don't drive me crazy, cocaine don't make me lazy.
Ain't nobody's business but your own." -- Taj Mahal
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "turk" |
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| Title: Re: favorite quotes |
04 May 2004 04:38:43 PM |
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\"chris" <od488gw02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:c452700a.0405041254.1558ecac@posting.google.com...
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
Mark Twain
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-- Calvin to Hobbes
"Only God in his infinite wisdom could have designed the giraffe so
that at
birth it drops violently, 6 ft. onto it's head. "
-- unknown
"God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be
tortured for eternity in hell. That sir, is not free will. It would be akin
to a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to
leave me, I will track you down and blow your brains out. When a man says
this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his imprisonment. When god
says the same we call him "loving" and build churches in his honor."
-- William C. Easttom II
"If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there
is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about
it."
-- Richard Dawkins
"In the ***** Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a
clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to
*****, big-time, major league *****, you have to stand in awe of the
all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No
contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest *****
story ever told.
Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an
invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every
minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things
he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a
special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish,
where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and
cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's
all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't
handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and
they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good ***** story.
Holy *****!"
-- George Carlin
And my all-time favorite quote that I think to this day sums up the
absurdity of God belief, and has yet to be satisfactorily answered by
theists...
" If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is
infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he
knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he
is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he
will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does
everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he
is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how
can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being
unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him
change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him?
IF HE HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED? If the knowledge of a
God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism
turk
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: favorite quotes |
05 May 2004 12:16:14 AM |
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"If, as they say, God spanked this town
For being much too frisky,
Why did He burn His churches down
And save Hotaling's Whiskey?"
..........[Poem on 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, in which the
city's largest whiskey distillery was left unscathed]
On Tue, 04 May 2004 21:38:43 GMT, "turk" <turk96@_*&^%#^&cast.net>
wrote:
\"chris" <od488gw02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:c452700a.0405041254.1558ecac@posting.google.com...
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
Mark Twain
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-- Calvin to Hobbes
"Only God in his infinite wisdom could have designed the giraffe so
that at
birth it drops violently, 6 ft. onto it's head. "
-- unknown
"God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be
tortured for eternity in hell. That sir, is not free will. It would be akin
to a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to
leave me, I will track you down and blow your brains out. When a man says
this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his imprisonment. When god
says the same we call him "loving" and build churches in his honor."
-- William C. Easttom II
"If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there
is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about
it."
-- Richard Dawkins
"In the ***** Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a
clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to
*****, big-time, major league *****, you have to stand in awe of the
all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No
contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest *****
story ever told.
Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an
invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every
minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things
he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a
special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish,
where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and
cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's
all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't
handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and
they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good ***** story.
Holy *****!"
-- George Carlin
And my all-time favorite quote that I think to this day sums up the
absurdity of God belief, and has yet to be satisfactorily answered by
theists...
" If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is
infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he
knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he
is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he
will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does
everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he
is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how
can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being
unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him
change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him?
IF HE HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED? If the knowledge of a
God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism
turk
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