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Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 6:26 am
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 8:10 am
Hoohoo, the shit has just it the fan. Where's the popcorn?

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When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 8:16 am
yaaaaaaay

As someone who witnessed 2 trials I sure hope this goes to court, because nothing in this world will so utterly and completly crush your ego as being told off by a judge.
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 9:28 am
I'm surprised it took Shermer this long, frankly.

Reading through the comments on this issue on Pharyngula (I know, I know) is really frustrating: it's amazing how many of those guys have leaped immediately to "he's guilty, this cease and desist is a free speech violation, and we should wreak vengeance by reposting this shit everywhere."

Dunno why I do it to myself, really. Tongue
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 9:39 am
(August 13, 2013 at 9:28 am)Esquilax Wrote: I'm surprised it took Shermer this long, frankly.

Reading through the comments on this issue on Pharyngula (I know, I know) is really frustrating: it's amazing how many of those guys have leaped immediately to "he's guilty, this cease and desist is a free speech violation, and we should wreak vengeance by reposting this shit everywhere."

Dunno why I do it to myself, really. Tongue

It didn't take him this long. His lawyers had been keeping a track of everything that was happening... including capturing screengrabs of PZ Myers' posts before he had a chance to edit them to take out someone's name.

They gathered their evidence, and then they sent the letter.
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 9:39 am
(August 13, 2013 at 9:28 am)Esquilax Wrote: Dunno why I do it to myself, really. Tongue

You must be made of sterner stuff than I, because just the few comments I have skimmed on this issue have made me want to slit my wrists. Especially when you consider that many of these people are attempting to speak for atheists as a whole.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 10:04 am
Something that I created a while back (when the whole A+ thing kicked off) but still applies now. Non-A+ atheists were supposedly A* (because an asterisk looks like a butt-hole).

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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 10:37 am (This post was last modified: August 13, 2013 at 11:24 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 11:21 am
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RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 13, 2013 at 1:14 pm
I love the "Freedom of speech!" trope in the cached page.

No, freedom of speech does not give you the right to slander and libel, anymore than it does not give you the right to yell "fire!" In a crowded theatre.

All this reeks is of "I'm free to say anything about you and represent it as truth and you have to take it"

Asswipes.
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