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Book Passages
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RE: Book Passages
"It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power; plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things." ~ Jingo, Terry Pratchett
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 20, 2025 at 12:52 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Paraselene - September 20, 2025 at 1:07 pm
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 20, 2025 at 1:23 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Paraselene - September 20, 2025 at 1:25 pm
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 20, 2025 at 1:28 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Paraselene - September 20, 2025 at 1:30 pm
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 20, 2025 at 1:34 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Paraselene - September 20, 2025 at 1:37 pm
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 20, 2025 at 2:52 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Angrboda - September 20, 2025 at 4:19 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Thumpalumpacus - September 20, 2025 at 4:31 pm
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 20, 2025 at 5:39 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Fake Messiah - September 20, 2025 at 6:02 pm
RE: Book Passages - by AFTT47 - September 20, 2025 at 9:07 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Paraselene - September 20, 2025 at 11:09 pm
RE: Book Passages - by The Valkyrie - September 21, 2025 at 12:14 am
RE: Book Passages - by Ivan Denisovich - September 21, 2025 at 2:34 am
RE: Book Passages - by Ravenshire - September 21, 2025 at 3:27 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Rev. Rye - September 21, 2025 at 9:01 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Mister Agenda - September 22, 2025 at 1:35 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Fake Messiah - October 5, 2025 at 2:02 pm
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 5, 2025 at 3:04 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Fake Messiah - October 8, 2025 at 12:42 am
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 8, 2025 at 6:00 am
RE: Book Passages - by Paraselene - October 8, 2025 at 10:36 am
RE: Book Passages - by awty - October 8, 2025 at 10:50 am
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 8, 2025 at 11:40 am
RE: Book Passages - by Fireball - October 8, 2025 at 3:33 pm
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 8, 2025 at 5:51 pm
RE: Book Passages - by Fake Messiah - November 9, 2025 at 5:39 am
RE: Book Passages - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 9, 2025 at 5:52 am
RE: Book Passages - by Fake Messiah - November 24, 2025 at 4:32 am

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