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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 10/13/2008 : 11:09:16
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I have to admit finding the story of David Hahn much cooler than it should be.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2008 : 12:14:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
I have to admit finding the story of David Hahn much cooler than it should be.
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I don't know....I think I'm with you. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2008 : 13:34:39 [Permalink]
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Well, the story was interesting. But he really didn't end up making anything except a deadly mess that others had to clean up. Not sure I find that "cool," exactly.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2008 : 14:37:31 [Permalink]
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Awesome story. I wonder how much of it is true.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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All things considered, an interesting fellow
