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Lisa
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 Posted - 10/31/2001 : 03:29:28
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/10/31/tencommandments.ap/index.html
I almost posted this under Humor. I would have given money to see this. How do you sneak 5,280 pound anything? I don't care if it was in the middle of the night. Nobody noticed?
Lisa
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.
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Garrette
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Posted - 10/31/2001 : 04:20:17 [Permalink]
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I refer you to a long-ago thread about magic and what people don't see that's right in front of them.
Kind of like when I was watching the movie "Gettysburg" with friends a couple of months ago and was explaining the background to it and how Lee snuck his army of 70,000 out of Virginia and on toward Pennsylvania before the Union could react (don't hit me with details, Val, I'm keeping it simple--smile, smile). "How in the hell do you SNEAK 70,000 people anywhere?" was the response. Hard to explain, but it can be done.
Didn't mean to hijack the thread, though. Speaks volumes that they had to sneak it in at all instead of put it there in broad daylight.
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Mespo_man
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 10/31/2001 : 05:59:28 [Permalink]
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I almost posted this under Humor. I would have given money to see this. How do you sneak 5,280 pound anything? I don't care if it was in the middle of the night. Nobody noticed?
Lisa
Obviously, it was a conspiracy. The justice must of had help from CalTech who slung a VW Beetle from the Golden Gate bridge. Or, perhaps, any of a host of other universities with Frat houses capable of moving heavy objects into unseemly locations like clock towers or the roof of the dean's residence.  |
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Garrette
SFN Regular
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Posted - 10/31/2001 : 06:02:25 [Permalink]
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The most famous prank at West Point was by then-cadet Douglas MacArthur who led a bunch of Plebes in a gargantuan effort to manually move a cannon from Monument Point overlooking the Hudson to the top of the clock tower in one of the barracks. He did it in a few hours one night.
It took a crane and a week of planning to get it back down.
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/31/2001 : 06:41:33 [Permalink]
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/10/31/tencommandments.ap/index.html
I almost posted this under Humor. I would have given money to see this. How do you sneak 5,280 pound anything? I don't care if it was in the middle of the night. Nobody noticed?
Lisa
Ah, good ol' Judge Roy "Moses" Moore! Makes me so proud to be an Alabamian! (NOT!)
I'm sure many people noticed, but the sad (and scary) thing is, so many people support him!
This guy is a complete idiot. When the whole Ten Commandment-in-the-courtroom thing was going on a few years ago (before my fellow citizens voted him in as Chief Justice  ), I could hardly listen to local talk radio for fear I would have a heart attack or get a hernia from hearing all the morons calling in supporting it. Luckily, the hosts have been against him (for the right reasons, even!), despite being conservative christians themselves. (We've gone through 4 hosts since then).
He's really a grand-stander, and is milking this for his own political gain (his campaign signs said "The Ten Commandments Judge"). Makes one wish there were a God, just to see him get struck by lightning for his blatant blasphemy.
Another group tried getting the "I Have a Dream" speech posted: denied. And I believe an atheist group also tried to do something, and of course, they were denied also.
In simple terms, How can anyone who is not a Christian expect a fair hearing before this fundy?! Why this is so hard for the people here (in Alabama, not this board  ) to understand, I just can't for the life of me figure it out.
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Slater
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Posted - 10/31/2001 : 09:42:38 [Permalink]
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THE 10 Commandments?
These weren't THE 10 Commandments. These were [b]A[/] 10 Commandments.
There are four sets of commandments.Ten each, that makes forty. Catholic, Protestant and two Jewish.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
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Victory AND Vengeance--horrifying, blood curdling vengeance
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/31/2001 : 11:10:37 [Permalink]
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I guess Catholics have no problem coveting their neighbor's ass. This is an especially unreasonable request when your apartment overlooks the swimming pool.
Victory Not Vengeance is what the VNV in VNV Nation stands for, my favorite musical group. I guess it was silly of me not to think everyone would think that I was commenting on the current situation. Perhaps I should change my tag line to a chorus from one of their songs...
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I'm in this mood because of scorn
I'm in a mood for total war
To the darkened skies once more
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 11/01/2001 : 04:00:55 [Permalink]
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OK!
Whats your score?
All of us atheists using our right of free speech, some times working on a Sunday, some times at odds with our parents.
We that are not married to our partner (or are remarried), are creative when filing our tax return, are telling white lies to avoid hurting people. We that have hormones and being ambitious.
/haven't killed anybody, yet!
"If God don't like the way I live,
Let him tell me not you"
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/01/2001 : 06:22:02 [Permalink]
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OK!
Whats your score?
All of us atheists using our right of free speech, some times working on a Sunday, some times at odds with our parents.
We that are not married to our partner (or are remarried), are creative when filing our tax return, are telling white lies to avoid hurting people. We that have hormones and being ambitious.
/haven't killed anybody, yet!
Not sure exactly what you are saying, but it reminds me of a very important point that I believe Slater made in another thread (forgive me if I mangle it). In casual day-to-day interaction, it is impossible to tell theists from atheists. I can practically guarantee that the plethora of very devout Christain ladies that I am surrounded by here at work every day would swear on a Bible that I was a good Christian boy. And certainly not because I've ever mislead them about my (lack of) religious beliefs.
I wonder what they'd think if they ever noticed that I always skip the "Under God" part of the pledge at our center functions...
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 11/01/2001 : 07:05:08 [Permalink]
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Not sure exactly what you are saying, but it reminds me of a very important point that I believe Slater made in another thread (forgive me if I mangle it). In casual day-to-day interaction, it is impossible to tell theists from atheists.
My point, which probably been stated before, is that the 10+ commandments are mostly absurd and most of us has broken not only a few but rather almost all of them.
The only one I haven't broken is thy shalt not kill. I don't steal and I love my parents, but I have been a kid, so my record is not totally clean on those two.
So I guess my score according to Ex:20 would be 9.
A person endorsing the 10 commandments would probably want me stoned to death.
Those guys ought to move to Kabul.
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
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Posted - 11/06/2001 : 10:24:52 [Permalink]
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In casual day-to-day interaction, it is impossible to tell theists from atheists.
I was talking to a Catholic friend of mine a while ago, and the discussion turned to morality and an "honor code" (for lack of a better term). He told me that he never really considers my agnosticism because I am such a moral person.
I felt compelled to respond, "That's funny, I never really considered your Catholicism for the same reason."
We both laughed about that and came to the sad conclusion that there are many amoral people in the world, regardless of creed.
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Sum Ergo Cogito
LOL! "I am, therefore I think."
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/06/2001 : 11:27:27 [Permalink]
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Sum Ergo Cogito
LOL! "I am, therefore I think."
Shamelessly stolen from the Skeptic Magazine "What is a Skeptic?" essay that they print at the front of the magazine every issue.
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Peter de Blanc
New Member
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2001 : 19:29:59 [Permalink]
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Sum Ergo Cogito
LOL! "I am, therefore I think."
Shamelessly stolen from the Skeptic Magazine "What is a Skeptic?" essay that they print at the front of the magazine every issue.
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Sum Ergo Cogito
I read this line in a Harry Harrison book years ago.
Don't remember which one, though.
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