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RIP thread
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 (January 7, 2025 at 9:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^And convicted child molester. I didn't know that, either. I don't think I have any of their music anymore, but that's not why.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
 (January 7, 2025 at 9:46 pm)Silver Wrote: Puff, the Magic Dragon, sounds like a euphemism for smoking pot. I think that's a case of seeing something that is not there. The song is about the loss of childhood innocence which is just the kind of thing folk songs address. The child molestation thing is definitely darker. He seemed repented and even Jimmy Carter gave him a pardon. That doesn't excuse him but we are all imperfect. I'm willing to give him a pass. Not that I am qualified as a moral arbiter. It's just my gut feeling that this was a guy who's slate was relatively clean at the end. He wasn't a saint but few if any of us are.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein  (January 7, 2025 at 9:46 pm)Silver Wrote: Puff, the Magic Dragon, sounds like a euphemism for smoking pot.
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"
 (January 8, 2025 at 1:29 am)AFTT47 Wrote:(January 7, 2025 at 9:46 pm)Silver Wrote: Puff, the Magic Dragon, sounds like a euphemism for smoking pot. According to sources, he got a handy from a 14 year old groupie. He was charged with and convicted of ‘taking improper liberties’. He was lucky not to be charged with statutory rape. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
We missed this one:
Anita Bryant American singer, orange juice pitchwoman, and rabid homophobe assumed room temperature at 84. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Sam Moore, of Sam and Dave, dead at 89. He was a soul man.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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