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June 27, 2023 at 4:41 pm
Julian Sands confirmed dead after human remains found in Californian mountain range are identified.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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June 30, 2023 at 11:01 am
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: RIP thread
June 30, 2023 at 7:53 pm
(June 30, 2023 at 6:27 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Quote:Robert willer up at Stanford
did about 50 hours.
50? He said
he's gonna do 80.
It could be
a major breakthrough.
Well, what happened to this guy
from Stanford? Was he okay?
Sure.
Aside from some
libido-energy blockage
and subsequent
ego-projection fantasies.
What are you talking about?
What happened?
Well, when he came out,
he was convinced
he'd turned into
a 6-foot-tall penis named Bob.
Other than that,
he's perfectly normal.
~ Simon (1980)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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June 30, 2023 at 8:25 pm
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Didn’t know Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski had died. He apparently died by suicide.
After he was apprehended, tried and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parol, he said to an interviewer that he didn’t intend to live long in prison. But apparently he found ending his own life to be less easy then ending the life of others, so he lived 25 years in the Florence, CO Supermax until two years after he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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RE: RIP thread
July 12, 2023 at 6:34 am
Milan Kundera, author of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, dead at 94.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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July 12, 2023 at 7:39 am
You think he'll write a companion volume?
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RE: RIP thread
July 21, 2023 at 2:57 pm
Atheism, dead since forever.
RIP atheis.. oh wait, no other-worldly resting place under atheism.
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