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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/19/2007 : 14:11:30
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Tammy Faye has inoperable cancer and she ain't looking too well.
The woman is a wraith. I can't help but pity her state, but I've heard others say they have trouble mustering any sympathy for the woman considering her past misdeeds. Some find it nothing short of cosmic justice. However, taking into account her alleged repentance and reformation of character, I just see it as another reminder that death will claim us all. All the prayers, incantations, and charms one can employ in a lifetime won't stop that. Bad things sometimes happen to good people, and bad things sometimes happen to bad people, and bad things can happen to the pious and irreligious alike. Tammy Faye's character really doesn't matter in the end, except in how she will be remembered.
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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
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
Edited by - H. Humbert on 07/19/2007 14:12:56
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pleco
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 14:18:11 [Permalink]
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| Damn, I saw that photo and thought it was photoshopped... |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 14:24:06 [Permalink]
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I'm sorry for anyone dying of cancer. Tammy Faye is getting a ton of pious media coverage, but only because she's famous and "religious." Her real claim to fame is that she spent many years of her life conning people out of their life savings.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/19/2007 : 15:37:29 [Permalink]
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It is said that God gives you the face you're born with, but you create for yourself, the face you die with.
I'd rather that she was not in such dreadful shape......
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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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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 17:06:44 [Permalink]
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| I have always found Tammy Fay to be entertaining in a kitschy sort of way. I, for one, will miss her. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2007 : 18:56:51 [Permalink]
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/21/tammy.faye/index.html
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/22/2007 : 08:38:28 [Permalink]
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A few Science Bloggers have offered their condolences.
PZ Myers:
| It's a personal tragedy that Tammy Faye has died, but someone else will have to let their mascara run. She and her husband bilked thousands of people, lied lied lied, perpetuated superstitious myths, lived lives of gag-inducing hypocrisy, and wallowed in outrageous self-pity when their empire of corruption crumbled. I'm sorry she lived a wasted and deluded life, but beyond that … good riddance. |
And Ed Brayton:
| Tammy Faye Dies...and I can't bring myself to work up even the tiniest bit of sympathy. She was a con artist who built an empire by fleecing the ignorant and the credulous, selling them religious snake oil with a side order of stupidity. She sold them the absurd pretense that she was a servant of God when, in reality, she was a slave to wretched excess, greed and hypocrisy. She built a life of lavish wealth on the backs of the poor and the desperate. She married a con man in Jim Bakker, then dumped him when he went to prison (she should have been in the next cell) and married another con man who eventually did time in prison himself for bankruptcy fraud. One can only conclude that the world is a slightly better place today by her absence. And if people like her are going to heaven, I'll take a one way ticket to hell please. |
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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
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/22/2007 : 09:25:14 [Permalink]
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Well, the world of televangelism is a scam-o-rama. But I think it's fair to point out that Tammy Fay stood up for gay rights and tried to debunk the baloney perpetrated by her peers about HIV infection.
Scam artist or not, she didn't tow the party line when she thought they were wrong…
Which one of those hypocritical bastards will do that now?
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
 Posted - 07/22/2007 : 09:26:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
A few Science Bloggers have offered their condolences.
PZ Myers:
| It's a personal tragedy that Tammy Faye has died, but someone else will have to let their mascara run. She and her husband bilked thousands of people, lied lied lied, perpetuated superstitious myths, lived lives of gag-inducing hypocrisy, and wallowed in outrageous self-pity when their empire of corruption crumbled. I'm sorry she lived a wasted and deluded life, but beyond that … good riddance. |
And Ed Brayton:
| Tammy Faye Dies...and I can't bring myself to work up even the tiniest bit of sympathy. She was a con artist who built an empire by fleecing the ignorant and the credulous, selling them religious snake oil with a side order of stupidity. She sold them the absurd pretense that she was a servant of God when, in reality, she was a slave to wretched excess, greed and hypocrisy. She built a life of lavish wealth on the backs of the poor and the desperate. She married a con man in Jim Bakker, then dumped him when he went to prison (she should have been in the next cell) and married another con man who eventually did time in prison himself for bankruptcy fraud. One can only conclude that the world is a slightly better place today by her absence. And if people like her are going to heaven, I'll take a one way ticket to hell please. |
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Tammy Faye not long for this world.
