Random observations for October 2018
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The strong person is, at a minimum, one who can control his own impulses. Whoever cannot is a weakling.
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Spirituality is the only thing uglier than nature.
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Global-warming denialists: Even if you win the argument, in twenty years your children will curse your memory for the world you condemned them to live in.
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Sam Houston was a key figure in the early history of Texas, and he probably wouldn't have been surprised if he'd known that someday the biggest city in Texas would be named after him. But he could never have imagined that his name would be the first word spoken on the Moon.
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The ridiculous efforts to "re-interpret" the Bible to claim that it doesn't condemn homosexuality, exasperating as they are, nevertheless show how thoroughly the taboo on homosexuality has been repudiated by much of society -- that Christianity itself can only be salvaged by denying its connection with the taboo.
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World-wide, Muslims outnumber Jews about a hundred to one. But if you went only by their respective contributions to modern civilization, you'd think it was the other way round.
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It was the Republicans' decision, after the election of Obama, to turn American politics into a state of all-out war. But it makes no sense to pretend that we aren't in a state of all-out war. At this point, the only option is to fight that war and win it.
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If the Christians are right and the universe is ruled by an omnipotent psychopath who would send me to burn forever because I couldn't believe obvious absurdities, then I guess I'm just out of luck. Threats don't make it any easier to believe the unbelievable, and pretending to believe would presumably be useless since God would know the difference. Hell of a crappy vision of the universe, though.
[For previous random observations, see here.]
posted by Infidel753 at 4:24 AM
6 Comments:
Sam Houston was a rare liberal in an age of super conservative southern people
"Global-warming denialists: Even if you win the argument, in twenty years your children will curse your memory for the world you condemned them to live in."
True! And some of the deniers will still be alive in twenty years to witness many not-very-pleasant changes.
Controlling ones own impulses is what keeps most of us out of jail. lol
Adam: I don't know much about Sam Houston. I've read that he could speak Cherokee, so he must have had multicultural interests.
Martha: I wonder how bad things will have to get for them to acknowledge the truth.
Mary: I had Trump in mind when I wrote that, but if he had spent his life acting the way he does and hadn't been rich, he probably would have spent a lo0t of time in jail.
"World-wide, Muslims outnumber Jews about a hundred to one. But if you went only by their respective contributions to modern civilization, you'd think it was the other way round."
You mean ex-Jews: those of us who managed to escape the religion.
There is one locality in the United States that is populated and ruled by Jews (or, as you call them, religious Jews), Kiryas Joel. It has the poorest community in the United States.
The word "Jews" refers to members of the ethnic group, not just adherents of the religion.
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