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RE: TV Series themes from our childhood
August 3, 2016 at 4:34 pm
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When we returned to America in 1979, this caught my ear immediately:
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RE: TV Series themes from our childhood
August 3, 2016 at 8:26 pm
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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RE: TV Series themes from our childhood
August 3, 2016 at 8:46 pm
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: TV Series themes from our childhood
August 5, 2016 at 6:15 am
I used to have a crush on Winnie as a kid.
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RE: TV Series themes from our childhood
August 9, 2016 at 10:09 am
You peeps and your Tee Vee. I remember when I watched the "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station", oh yes I remembered it like it was yesterday. My dad asked me if I wanted to go to the moving picture and I was like "What's that?" and we gathered at some meadow where there was still a white wall stranding from some abandoned house and then the movie was projected. People started screaming and we all threw ourselves at the side so that projected train wouldn't run us over.
But you people now have all this gadgets like color, sound, popcorn, digital and still fail to relive the excitement of us on that meadow.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: TV Series themes from our childhood
August 9, 2016 at 10:14 am
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.