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Religions > Atheism |
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"Enkidu" |
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05 Jun 2004 04:34:57 PM |
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Mark Twain |
If Mark Twain were alive today, he'd be protesting our current path as a=20
nation.
"Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which=20
Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago=20
was the last refuge of the scoundrel=97and I believe that he was right. I=
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remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the=20
phrase, =91My country, right or wrong, my country!=92 How absolutely absurd=
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is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth=20
of the country."
=97Mark Twain, 1907
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Enkidu - AA# 2165
"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for=20
everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections=20
are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence=20
to religious principles"
James D. Watson =20
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1962/watson-bio.html=20
"The Astonishing Hypothesis is that `You,' your joys and=20
your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your=20
sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no=20
more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells=20
and their associated molecules."
Francis Crick
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1962/crick-bio.html
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Mark Twain |
06 Jun 2004 02:17:14 AM |
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In article <MPG.1b2bdc46fa551c8e9897e6@news.west.cox.net>,
Enkidu <enkidu@leaddogs.org> wrote:
If Mark Twain were alive today, he'd be protesting our current path as a
nation.
"Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which
Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago
was the last refuge of the scoundrel?and I believe that he was right. I
remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the
phrase, ?My country, right or wrong, my country!? How absolutely absurd
is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth
of the country."
?Mark Twain, 1907
I couldn't agree more. If Twain were alive today, I'm sure that he would
be under investigation at least several government agencies.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Men become civilized not in their willingness to believe, but in
proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: Mark Twain |
06 Jun 2004 09:55:51 AM |
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On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:34:57 -0700, Enkidu wrote:
If Mark Twain were alive today, he'd be protesting our current path as a
nation.
"Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which
Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago
was the last refuge of the scoundrel—and I believe that he was right. I
remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the
phrase, ‘My country, right or wrong, my country!’ How absolutely absurd
is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of
the country."
—Mark Twain, 1907
Mark Twain is buried right down the street from where I sit typing this.
I hear him rolling over in his grave a lot lately.
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: Mark Twain |
07 Jun 2004 08:55:07 AM |
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MarkA wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:34:57 -0700, Enkidu wrote:
If Mark Twain were alive today, he'd be protesting our current path as a
nation.
"Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which
Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago
was the last refuge of the scoundrel—and I believe that he was right. I
remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the
phrase, ‘My country, right or wrong, my country!’ How absolutely absurd
is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of
the country."
—Mark Twain, 1907
Mark Twain is buried right down the street from where I sit typing this.
I hear him rolling over in his grave a lot lately.
I was going to say, must be a noisy neighborhood nowadays.
Of all the reasons to want to believe in reincarnation, Mark Twain tops my
list. I would dearly love to see him on national TV reading the War Prayer, if
only to see Bill O`Reilley and Ann Coulter have paroxysms denouncing him as an
unAmerican traitor.
--
Gregory Gadow for Washington State House
Independent, District 43
http://www.gregory-gadow.info
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