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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/25/2010 : 05:47:48
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12 people jump from window to escape The Devil
This is perhaps the most depressing thing Ive ever read about my fellow humans, I forsee no Star Trek style reasoning in our future.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/25/2010 : 06:54:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
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12 people jump from window to escape The Devil
This is perhaps the most depressing thing Ive ever read about my fellow humans, I forsee no Star Trek style reasoning in our future.
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indeed. From this thread:
A case in point:
A baby died when a family of 12 leapt from their second floor balcony in Paris claiming they were fleeing the devil.
Eight more were injured, some seriously, in the tragedy when they jumped 20ft into a car park in Paris suburb of La Verriere.
The baffling incident occurred when a wife woke to see her husband moving about naked in the room, police said.
She began screaming 'it's the devil! it's the devil!', and the man ran into the other room where 11 others adults and children were watching television. One woman grabbed a knife and stabbed the man before others pushed him out through the front door.
When the man forced his way back in, they all began screamed in terror and leapt from the balcony screaming 'Jesus! Jesus!'
With this sort of a mind-set infecting much of the public, religion will never irrelevant. It's sort of like worshiping an image of Jesus in a slops bucket, but with terror. It's the knee-jerk, religious irrationality that has been firmly imprinted upon us over many centuries and it will never change.
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Religion has a lot to answer for.
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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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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 10/25/2010 : 10:54:10 [Permalink]
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The police claims there were no hallucinogenic drugs involved.
This is where the skeptic in me starts to raise red flags...
Something in the story doesn't sit right.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2010 : 11:05:08 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, I didnt know smoking angel dust was a family event...taking 'high on Jesus' to a whole new level. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Sorry, humanity is a lost cause...
