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Coragyps Member Posts: 4982 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: Member Rating: 8.7 |
“To me, there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.” - Woody Allen
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Dr Adequate Member  Posts: 11074 Joined: Member Rating: 9.1 |
"The uproar created by a thousand mice eating corn flakes falls gratefully on the ears of those who are fond of mice and wish them well." --- Sir Peter Medawar
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Minnemooseus Member  Posts: 3114 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
I've rotated a number of quotes through my "signature" over the years. The lite one that has persisted for a long time: "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham Moose
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dwise1 Member  Posts: 1935 Joined: Member Rating: 9.2
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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
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Artemis Entreri  Suspended Member (Idle past 179 days)  Posts: 1194 From: Northern Virginia Joined:
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“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” Thomas Aquinas
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ringo Member  Posts: 7616 From: Stubblejump, Canuckistan Joined: Member Rating: 9.5 |
"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions." -- Oscar Wilde Edited by ringo, : Added period. "It appears that many of you turn to Hebrew to escape the English...." -- Joseppi
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Dr Adequate Member Posts: 11074 Joined: Member Rating: 9.1
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I like that one too. Though for different reasons. Try murmuring "in the necessity of burning Catholics" or "in the fact that Allah wants me to crash a plane into a building" or "in the fact that my neighbor should be tried for witchcraft" after both incidences of the word "faith". Yes, no explanation is possible. And to the True Believer, none is necessary. That's what "faith" means.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 1935 Joined: Member Rating: 9.2
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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
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dwise1 Member Posts: 1935 Joined: Member Rating: 9.2
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[When you search for God, y]ou can't go to the people who believe already. They've made up their minds and want to convince you of their own personal heresy. (from The Jehovah Contract, originally Der Jehova-Vertrag, by Viktor Koman, 1984)
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dwise1 Member Posts: 1935 Joined: Member Rating: 9.2 |
God is not what you imagine, or what you think you understand. For if you understand, you have failed. (Augustine of Hippo)
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bluegenes Member  Posts: 2699 From: U.K. Joined: Member Rating: 9.9 |
"Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow, No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!" - Thomas F. Healey
"Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist." - Epicurus
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Stagamancer Member (Idle past 866 days)  Posts: 174 From: Oregon Joined:
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quote: -Robert G. Ingersoll We have many intuitions in our life and the point is that many of these intuitions are wrong. The question is, are we going to test those intuitions? -Dan Ariely
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 565 days)  Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
"Death is the only god who comes when you call." Roger Zelazny in the short story 24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai
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Asgara Member  Posts: 1679 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
I think most "Christians" in this country merely believe in the God-Idea and in those who taught them that God exists
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Artemis Entreri Suspended Member (Idle past 179 days) Posts: 1194 From: Northern Virginia Joined: |
I don't really see your point in argueing a different take on a quote that is well over 700 years old, but you troll differently than I do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- new quote becuase I can stay on topic: "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. " Thomas Jefferson
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