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chaloobi
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 12/12/2008 : 14:53:40 [Permalink]
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| Good article. It also demonstrates how you guys ignore our Skeptic Summary's... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 12/12/2008 : 18:35:08 [Permalink]
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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.
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chaloobi
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Posted - 12/14/2008 : 06:47:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Good article. It also demonstrates how you guys ignore our Skeptic Summary's...
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-Chaloobi
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/14/2008 : 08:29:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Good article. It also demonstrates how you guys ignore our Skeptic Summary's...
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I never miss the Summary but in this case I missed the article. Bad title -- I find Ben Stein's mind somewhat less interesting than I do Benny himself, and so failed to open it. Sorry 'bout that.
On the other hand, I've been visiting the Daily Rotten, especally the Library regularly for years. It's quite a good if limited reference as well as being fun to read.
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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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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/14/2008 : 08:30:10 [Permalink]
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Skeptic Summary? What is this "summary" you speak of?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Roger Ebert Relents and Reviews Expelled
