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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/22/2008 : 01:55:59
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| Bendy-buses with the slogan "There's probably no God" could soon be running on the streets of London. |
| The complete slogan reads: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." |
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I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Edited by - Gorgo on 10/22/2008 01:57:52
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/22/2008 : 04:24:25 [Permalink]
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Sweet! Thanks, Gorgo. "This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think - and thinking is anathema to religion."
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And on the flip side of the coin: | But Stephen Green of pressure group Christian Voice said: "Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large." |
And thus the point is made, as atheism is scarcly a hazard to anything but church tithes, collection plate totals and other such sacred swag. Bendy-buses, however, might be another matter.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2008 : 06:52:50 [Permalink]
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| There's probably no way I'd ever be able to drive one of those things, so no one need worry about that, either. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2008 : 10:48:36 [Permalink]
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| Just heard from someone who heard from someone in England who said that according to local London by-laws, they could not say "There is no god," they had to use the word 'probably.' |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2008 : 11:32:33 [Permalink]
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I like the 'probably' myself. It comes out at humble and open-minded.
That, coupled with the second part of the message is nice; tolerant and heart-warming. It would make for an even better slogan in the US where the issue is still for a big part to help people to realize that atheists are not morally bankrupt covert Satanists... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/22/2008 : 11:36:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
I like the 'probably' myself. It comes out at humble and open-minded.
That, coupled with the second part of the message is nice; tolerant and heart-warming. It would make for an even better slogan in the US where the issue is still for a big part to help people to realize that atheists are not morally bankrupt covert Satanists...
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I'm sure it still looks very shrill and very cruel and very stupid to most theists, and to some atheists. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2008 : 12:15:26 [Permalink]
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well; at this point, it is the mere thought that somebody could have a different world-view that offends them. There is nothing that one can do that would make these guys happy. Well; except for dying on the spot and actually going to hell to prove them right, so yeah, nothing real.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 10/22/2008 : 12:19:38 [Permalink]
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http://www.atheistcampaign.org/
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There's probably no god
