08-13-2007, 02:25 PM
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still unsmited
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Science doesn't kill people, governments do.
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08-21-2007, 09:24 PM
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#17
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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC
From A Man Without a Country
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09-15-2007, 11:09 AM
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For me there are a lot to choose from, so hold in mind the proper level of gravitas when I say this is my favorite Vonnegut quote:
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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Vonnegut was far more about being irreverent than cynical. He never stopped talking and writing about what was wrong as he found it in the world, and never stopped arguing for what was right. That hardly describes a cynic.
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11-28-2008, 01:32 AM
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From Under the Banner of Heaven
"Faith is the antithesis of reason."
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11-30-2008, 06:54 AM
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Organ Donator
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What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
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~ Slaughterhouse 5
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04-10-2011, 08:02 AM
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New Member!
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One of the coolest aspects of me having gone to collage was that I worked in the theater and managed to hear both Madylan O'hair and Kurt Vonnegut, tho not at the same time.
My fav Vonnegut quote was this thing from one of his stories where there existed a specis whose sole activities were gaining sustinence from some vibrations and communicating "I'm here" to their companions, and their companions responding ''I'm glad".
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04-10-2011, 08:34 AM
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
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"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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04-10-2011, 04:43 PM
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Super Moderator
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so, babs, tell me about collage....
One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected....That they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly.
H. L. Mencken
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04-10-2011, 04:57 PM
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I Live Here
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Eva wrote
so, babs, tell me about collage....
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Well, duh! In Collage, they read bokes and such.
The Leprechauns do not forbid the drawing of Their images, as long as we color within the lines. ~ Ghoulslime H Christ, Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and Masturbator
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04-10-2011, 05:30 PM
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Obsessed Member
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I confess. I didn't understand Kate's pic at first.
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04-10-2011, 08:11 PM
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Obsessed Member
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hmpf. I had to google kurt vonnegut and I was thinking kurt cobain for more than a moment. I obviously needed a better collage.
Also I must learn more about this interesting fellow.
"If God inspired the Bible, why is it such a piece of shit?" (Kaziglu Bey)
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04-10-2011, 08:30 PM
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Obsessed Member
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Quote:
ubs wrote
Great thread! My favorite quote from one of my favorite authors
"Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore."
[Kurt Vonnegut Jr., quoted in 2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt, by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]
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That reminds me of this quote:
@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
I don't agree with it, really, but I do like it, nonetheless! It's from Lovecraft, not Vonnegut: but I think there is some relation to the Vonnegut quote, in that some people might choose religious belief and explanations over scientific ones: perhaps they feel more comfortable in their ignorance?
"If God inspired the Bible, why is it such a piece of shit?" (Kaziglu Bey)
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04-11-2011, 12:40 AM
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I Live Here
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lost- I 'lost' myself in the "font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal," bit
“'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." Fry
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04-11-2011, 01:07 AM
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
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Quote:
Eva wrote
so, babs, tell me about collage....
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"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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04-11-2011, 02:04 AM
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I Live Here
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Quote:
Kate wrote
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Hey, it's Birmingham Alabama! What else are you going to do?
The Leprechauns do not forbid the drawing of Their images, as long as we color within the lines. ~ Ghoulslime H Christ, Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and Masturbator
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