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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:18 PM
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Quote of the day
"Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him.

"Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in."

-Sam Harris, author (1967- )
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:22 PM
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1. "...rival interpretations of Star Wars..."
Originally shot trilogy: Catholics
Special Editions: Protestants

I predict a war over whether Han or Greedo shot first.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:22 PM
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2. That is an awesome quote.
Edited on Fri Jan-26-07 02:22 PM by ThomCat
And it's so true. People kill themselves and each other over interpretations of books that were poorly written by scribes thousands of years ago.

This quote puts it in a good perspective.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:24 PM
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3. Love it. n/t
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:24 PM
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4. I have long been using the analogy
that we are all participants in a Miller Lite commercial with John Madden setting us at each other's throats
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