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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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 Posted - 09/04/2006 : 19:36:13 [Permalink]
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I'd sign a petition to ban Wal-Mart.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/04/2006 : 20:45:31 [Permalink]
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I think it helps to show hypocrisy for what it is. Good on them. I signed it. I'll probably be sorry it'll be a fake page collecting email addresses or something. Or maybe it's the NSA, but I'm sure I'm already on that list. 
They actually had some good passages pointed out.
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Cookie Parker
New Member
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Posted - 09/06/2006 : 05:41:49 [Permalink]
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| Hey, fair is fair. Stewart's book gets the ax, so does the Bible. |
Blaise Pascal:
To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse. |
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Original_Intent
SFN Regular
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Posted - 09/07/2006 : 04:33:05 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Cookie Parker
Hey, fair is fair. Stewart's book gets the ax, so does the Bible.
I would wish them one step further..... If Wal-Mart will encourage unions in China, they should encourage them in the US.......
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 09/07/2006 : 09:11:32 [Permalink]
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I wouldn't sign that petition. I'm with Ricky on this. You can't defend the first amendment by suggesting that any book gets banned. This petition, it seems to me, is a bit too sophomoric.
It would make way more sense to sign a petition saying that as long as Wal-Mart, a privet company by the way, has a policy of not selling some best sellers because they find certain books objectionable, the signers of the petition will buy no books at Wal-Mart and will call for a boycott on Wal-Mart in general…
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/07/2006 : 10:23:34 [Permalink]
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| Well if you use the book banner's logic the Bible should be near the top of the list, sometimes sophmoric is the only thing that will get through. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 09/07/2006 : 10:46:14 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
I wouldn't sign that petition. I'm with Ricky on this. You can't defend the first amendment by suggesting that any book gets banned. This petition, it seems to me, is a bit too sophomoric.
It would make way more sense to sign a petition saying that as long as Wal-Mart, a privet company by the way, has a policy of not selling some best sellers because they find certain books objectionable, the signers of the petition will buy no books at Wal-Mart and will call for a boycott on Wal-Mart in general…
They're just attempting to raise attention to the matter, I believe. I'd rather think they have no intention whatsoever of actually getting anything banned.
Still, amusing, but childish, I'd say. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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