(May 20, 2024 at 12:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^Dunno about that. I got an apology from the woman who stabbed me with a fork.

Boru

Maybe she was checking to see if you were done.

"Open mouth -- already a mistake."

Zen saying

"We didn’t choose Michael Cohen to be our witness. We didn’t pick him up at the witness store," Steinglass said. "The defendant chose Michael Cohen to be his fixer because he was willing to lie and cheat on the defendant’s behalf."

‘An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.’ - Clarence Darrow

Boru

‘Is an oyster self aware? Nyet. A cat? Almost certainly. A man? I don’t know about you, tovarish, but I am.’ - Manuel Garcia O’Kelly Davis

Boru

‘The machinery of capitalism is oiled with the blood of the workers.’ - Homer Simpson

Boru

“You can’t just say there is a God because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.” (Steven Fry) 

Paul Dirac's remarks on God and religion (1927)

If we are honest — and scientists have to be — we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented. If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards — in heaven if not on earth — all those who have not risen up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins.

All women are bi...


...it's up to you to guess whether it's sexual or polar.