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dimossi
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Posted - 04/16/2002 :  06:27:46  Show Profile  Visit dimossi's Homepage  Send dimossi an AOL message Send dimossi a Private Message
This is too funny:

http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2002-03-27/books.html

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." [Philip K. Dick, science-fiction author]

filthy
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USA
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Posted - 04/16/2002 :  07:09:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Well, what ever gets ya through the day, I guess. Seems a harmless enough delusion, and it seems to have made her a few $$. Good deal, sez I.

Now, we wait and see what the fundies do with it.

f

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."--Benjamin Franklin, _Poor_Richard_, 1758
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Bradley
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USA
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Posted - 04/16/2002 :  08:44:03   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Bradley a Private Message
Pop culture has definitely gone beyond satire. Things that two generations ago were jokes on the Smothers Brothers or Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in are realities today - e.g. Readers' Digest condensed bible.

"Too much doubt is better than too much credulity."

-Robert Green Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
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Lars_H
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Germany
630 Posts
Posted - 04/16/2002 :  11:48:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Lars_H a Private Message
quote:

Pop culture has definitely gone beyond satire. Things that two generations ago were jokes on the Smothers Brothers or Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in are realities today - e.g. Readers' Digest condensed bible.


Actually I think that the mainstream-culture has actually overall become a bit more conservative in recent years. It is just that the fringe is better accesible thanks to modern technology.
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