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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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... and He tells me I am the Emperor."
I get very nervous when people hear imaginary voices, including God's. Especially God's.
Aaron Snyder, 32, the poor deluded man who was shot dead in the Colorado state Capitol after declaring that he was the "Emperor," and flashing a gun, was convinced that God spoke to him personally.
In an email to a coworker, Snyder wrote:"Thank you very much for hiring me. I have not properly introduced myself. I am the emperor, the sovereign ruler of this nation. God has be-stowed this honor on me. Today is the appointed day in which God has chosen for me to begin my reign. I have decided to favor Advanced Energy as a company. Please keep the emperor's desk free for my use in R&D purposes when I have spare time. I take engineering very seriously."
The e-mail was signed Aaron Aurelius Ricardus Constantinus. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/27/2007 00:45:32
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On fire for Christ
SFN Regular
Norway
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Posted - 07/17/2007 : 23:45:53 [Permalink]
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/18/2007 : 00:37:40 [Permalink]
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That email would be funny (hilarious even) if the guy hadn't gone and gotten himself killed.
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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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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/18/2007 : 01:46:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
That email would be funny (hilarious even) if the guy hadn't gone and gotten himself killed.
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Exactly. That's why I dared not put it under "Humor."
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/18/2007 : 03:19:15 [Permalink]
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It is said that when you talk to God, you are devout and pious; but when God talks to you, you are insane.
I've never seen a reason not to agree with that. Hearing disembodied voices is never a good sign in anyone.
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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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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/18/2007 : 03:37:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
It is said that when you talk to God, you are devout and pious; but when God talks to you, you are insane. |
I'd even go further: When you talk to God, you are neurotic. When He talks to you, you are psychotic.
But then, I'm one of those "soccer hooligan" type atheists, like that drunken madman, Dawkins.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/18/2007 : 05:17:24 [Permalink]
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OY! Manchester United is a bunch of lily-livered ninny-muffins! God told me so.
"This is where I saw the leprechaun! He told me to burn things!" |
"...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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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/18/2007 : 06:28:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
OY! Manchester United is a bunch of lily-livered ninny-muffins! God told me so.
"This is where I saw the leprechaun! He told me to burn things!"
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Ninny-muffins.....?
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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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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/18/2007 : 07:27:15 [Permalink]
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| tTats from some movie or another, I cant recall. Though Im sure it was derived from this Scarlet O'Hara quote from Gone With The Wind..."She's a Mealy Mouthed, Lily Livered Ninny and I hate her!" |
"...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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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/18/2007 : 07:33:41 [Permalink]
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| I remember now, it's from the Will Ferrell movie 'Elf', its an elf insult. Though It may be Cotton-headed ninny-muffin |
"...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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Dave W.
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"He walks with me, and He talks with me...
