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bngbuck
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Posted - 09/14/2010 : 09:28:18 [Permalink]
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Dude.....
I'd find a way to resist through insurgency, or to escape. I'd risk my life, but only if I had a specific goal in mind that was both worthy and had a chance of success.
And I'd get you to finance it all..... |
You are a Great American!©* Am forwarding loan application.
*Copywright
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 09/14/2010 : 10:56:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Oh my gosh! filthy has run afoul of the intent of free speech!!! What to do... what to do..? Have to agree though. This is pretty fucking boring.
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The constitutional right to free speech ends at my ennui threshold. If everyone had the same attitude, conversations would become far worthier than they currently are. Hell, we can get this sort of highfalutin' noise from any jack-leg politician running a snowjob on the populace. Of either party. Endlessly.
No, I will not burn Alice in Wonderland. It is a favorite work, indeed, a timeless fantasy, and I will call holy jihad upon any scummy infidel who does.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2010 : 12:37:46 [Permalink]
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Filthy.....
How about torching The Collected Works of Charles Fort as a protest to unbridled iconoclasm in an Enlightened Age of Science?
You would be a hero to many here, but the Fortean Society would undoubtedly arrange for your death by hard boiled eggs falling from the sky! Rides on the scooter would become problematical! |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 09/14/2010 : 12:46:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Dude:
Also, the thing I'm talking about when I ask Tom for evidence is his (and your) claim that criticism is the equivalent of calling for silence! |
But Dude. In the context that we are discussing it, It's self self evidently obvious. Or is it that when Dude makes a claim, that's it. End of discussion.
Perhaps we should be sitting at your feet and learning from the master, oh great one...
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The problem you are having following the conversation here... is not improved by you also being an asshole about it.
Because, seriously, while criticism can include a call for silence, it can also be the exact opposite of that, and any shade between. Like my criticism of you in the sort-of sentence just before this paragraph.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2010 : 13:30:36 [Permalink]
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Dude:
The problem you are having following the conversation here... is not improved by you also being an asshole about it. |
Sage advice from a master of restraint. Though I did detect a bit of passive aggression in the first part of the above quote. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2010 : 13:54:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Dude:
The problem you are having following the conversation here... is not improved by you also being an asshole about it. |
Sage advice from a master of restraint. Though I did detect a bit of passive aggression in the first part of the above quote.
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No, that's just me being a dick. Nothing passive about it.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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chefcrsh
Skeptic Friend
Hong Kong
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Posted - 09/14/2010 : 17:01:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
No, I will not burn Alice in Wonderland.
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Not even the recent Tim Burton 3D train wreck version? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2010 : 18:13:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chefcrsh
Originally posted by filthy
No, I will not burn Alice in Wonderland.
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Not even the recent Tim Burton 3D train wreck version?
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Haven't seen it and so can't pass judgment on it. However, if it is that bad, then it's a blasphemy and not Alice at all. And yet, it would not be deserving of the fires. Even the foulest blasphemy is protected -- until it gets tedious.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2010 : 18:17:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by chefcrsh
Originally posted by filthy
No, I will not burn Alice in Wonderland.
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Not even the recent Tim Burton 3D train wreck version?
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Haven't seen it and so can't pass judgment on it. However, if it is that bad, then it's a blasphemy and not Alice at all. And yet, it would not be deserving of the fires. Even the foulest blasphemy is protected -- until it gets tedious.
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I liked it. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 09/14/2010 : 18:35:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by chefcrsh
Originally posted by filthy
No, I will not burn Alice in Wonderland.
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Not even the recent Tim Burton 3D train wreck version?
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Haven't seen it and so can't pass judgment on it. However, if it is that bad, then it's a blasphemy and not Alice at all. And yet, it would not be deserving of the fires. Even the foulest blasphemy is protected -- until it gets tedious.
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I kinda liked it.
It wasn't Alice in Wonderland it was more like a sequel to the movie set 10 years after the book.
Quite interesting, really.
One book that I don't think you'd mind burning would be The White Man's Bible by an Illinois resident (and current guest of the penal system). |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2010 : 02:51:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by chefcrsh
Originally posted by filthy
No, I will not burn Alice in Wonderland.
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Not even the recent Tim Burton 3D train wreck version?
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Haven't seen it and so can't pass judgment on it. However, if it is that bad, then it's a blasphemy and not Alice at all. And yet, it would not be deserving of the fires. Even the foulest blasphemy is protected -- until it gets tedious.
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I kinda liked it.
It wasn't Alice in Wonderland it was more like a sequel to the movie set 10 years after the book.
Quite interesting, really.
One book that I don't think you'd mind burning would be The White Man's Bible by an Illinois resident (and current guest of the penal system).
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Wait, is that the one with Johnny Depp? The cross between Alice and the Jabberwocky? I have seen it after all and, if looked at as a different story, it's pretty good. I especally liked the Bandersnatch.
There've been a quite a few productions of Alice made over the years. I think Hallmark made the best one. I also think that it was one of Disney's better efforts.
I hadn't heard of the White Man's Bible. I'll check it out.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2010 : 03:33:59 [Permalink]
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Ok, I checked it out. It is just another pile of quasi-religious, Aryan drivel, lacking any sembelence of literary or historical value, and therefore can be desposed of in any way deemed suitable by it's owner. But I would not burn it; our atmosphere has enough crap in it already. I think I'd simply put it on a shelf in the privy to use for emergencys.
Here's an Amazon review:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sound [sic] a lot like the tea party manifesto, July 14, 2010
By Armando-Malwani "Seeker" (MN, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The White Man's Bible (Paperback)
This book is must {sic} read for any tea party patriot. When I read Klassen's writing it sounds a lot like Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin talking. Essential reading for anyone who believe [sic] in the superiority of white people. This book should be adopted as the republican party's [sic] manifesto. We white aryan's [sic] want our country back. This book lays out the steps we can take to take our country back. After reading this book I understood where Sarah Palin got her wisdom from. |
Sad, philosophically as well as grammatically..... 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2010 : 04:16:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
 AH, SHADDAFUCKUP!!
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Apologies for becoming boring Filthy. I'll shut up now  |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 09/16/2010 : 12:16:33 [Permalink]
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Justice Stephen Breyer equates burning the Koran with shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.
And Ed Brayton comments.
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Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Burning the Koran: how stupid is this?
