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RE: The Case for an Insurrection Against Jesus Christ, Part II
December 11, 2014 at 2:35 pm
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: The Case for an Insurrection Against Jesus Christ, Part II
December 11, 2014 at 3:02 pm
For those of you who know the game hearthstone, I think their devs have our sense of humour. They just released a new expansion, and there's this great flavour text on a new card. It's a mech warrior thing, and it goes, "he chooses to believe what he is programmed to believe!"
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RE: The Case for an Insurrection Against Jesus Christ, Part II
December 11, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Sounds a bit like Douglas Adams'
Electric Monk:
Quote:The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
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.'