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RE: What the 'film' issue wa really about
September 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm
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(September 22, 2012 at 1:50 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: ^I disagree. Nationalism, propaganda, culture etc, can all make "good" people do "bad" things.
Instead? Or as well?
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: What the 'film' issue wa really about
September 22, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Then you're not disagreeing, you're expanding on the theme.
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: What the 'film' issue wa really about
September 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Maybe, the way I understood "it takes religion"...is that nothing else but religion would make good people do evil things.
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RE: What the 'film' issue wa really about
September 22, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Which you accepted as being the case but not in isolation. Perhaps the phrase is a little ambiguous but unfortunately we don't have Professor Weinberg around for a clarification. I'm guessing that if he'd intended to say that, he'd have included words like "only" or "exclusively" or similar.
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: What the 'film' issue wa really about
September 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm
No, allegedly God did that. Weinberg nicked it for the title of his book.
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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