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It's A Quote
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(October 6, 2022 at 5:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘A book worth banning is a book worth reading.’ - Issac Asimov

Boru

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." (Groucho Marx)  Hehe
"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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‘I’m a marvelous housekeeper - every time I leave a man, I keep his house.’ - Zsa Zsa Gabor

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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"When the White Men came, we had the land and they had the Bibles. Now they have the land and we have the Bibles." (Chief Dan George)  Read
"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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(October 6, 2022 at 5:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘A book worth banning is a book worth reading.’ - Issac Asimov

Boru

Barnes & Noble’s Banned Books section (kids edition).

[Image: books-low-resolution.jpg]

Here is a link to a higher-resolution image if you want to zoom in and see the reasons why they were banned.

https://images2.imgbox.com/62/61/LKlBoSeD_o.jpeg
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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(October 8, 2022 at 11:19 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(October 6, 2022 at 5:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘A book worth banning is a book worth reading.’ - Issac Asimov

Boru

Barnes & Noble’s Banned Books section (kids edition).

[Image: books-low-resolution.jpg]

Here is a link to a higher-resolution image if you want to zoom in and see the reasons why they were banned.

https://images2.imgbox.com/62/61/LKlBoSeD_o.jpeg

How in dafuq do you ban Winnie the Pooh for having talking (stuffed) animals.  Aren't there talking animals in the Holy Bibly? 

Back to the thread topic.

Please consider my quote to be 'WTAF'.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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"Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under the harvest skies." (Sharon Kay Penman)
"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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I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, “They should’ve sent a poet.” I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.

It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

- William Shatner
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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"I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake." (Lewis Black)  Coffee
"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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‘Now, I want to describe the left’s midterm agenda very simply. You ready? This is what they’re going to give you more of if you elect them: abortion, pot, porn, and more January 6th hearings.’ - Laura Ingraham, threatening Americans with a good time.

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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“The memories and paw print of a beloved cat remains in our hearts and souls forever.” (Anonymous)  Tiny Tiger
"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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