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Did anyone else get deconverted by a single sentence?
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RE: Did anyone else get deconverted by a single sentence?
(January 1, 2017 at 3:22 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(January 1, 2017 at 2:51 pm)Astonished Wrote: I had never seen that comparison between Harris and Stiller, and I don't think they look anything alike, so that's lost on me. Now, the Bush and Chimpanzee meme, THAT I can totally see.

But Hitchens, AronRa, anyone I've mentioned was probably referred to down the line in some way. I'm just not a big Ben Stiller fan.

Never heard of Stiller. I was saying Hitchens and Stimbo (a member here) look alike, or so his friends tell him.

It comes from this little exchange from about eighteen months ago:

(June 22, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
(June 22, 2015 at 9:40 pm)Stimbo Wrote: None at all, by definition.

That's not what Christopher Hitchens said. But whatever.

(June 23, 2015 at 3:44 am)Stimbo Wrote: It may have escaped your notice but I am not Christopher Hitchens. Maybe it's something of an alien concept for you but I don't necessarily have to agree lock-step with everything said by other people, even if they are or were atheists. It's not as though we revere our 'leaders', such as they are, merely because they happen to be prominent. They're not our popes or anything so silly.

However, feel free to give the actual quote of what the Hitch said.

Later, I was seemingly mistaken for another celebrity, via accusations that the quote I cited ("Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.") was plagiarised from somemagic book or other:

(July 3, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Stimbo Wrote: On the other hand, it could be that he thinks I'm Lincoln if I'm the one accused of plagiarising his special book. First Christopher Hitchens, now Abraham Lincoln. I didn't realise they thought my oratory is that good.

(July 3, 2015 at 6:42 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(July 3, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What's with the Lincoln avatar, Stim?

Somehow in the last few days, I've been told that I'm Christopher Hitchens and just recently Abe Lincoln. I didn't know this, nobody ever thought to tell me before. So I thought I'd create a mashup of the two.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'



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RE: Did anyone else get deconverted by a single sentence? - by Cyberman - January 1, 2017 at 3:48 pm

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