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KILL THE WISE ONE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-10 10:41 PM
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the FURIES were Greek gods you did want want to release, because you had no control over them
Edited on Thu Aug-26-10 10:43 PM by KILL THE WISE ONE
I see FOX and their henchmen the republicans, doing what I would call trolling for a assassins of their political opponents. You know those "second amendment solutions". Getting some dumb shit so upset he does their bidding.

they obviously feel they will be safe in their gated community with private security.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 01:16 AM
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1. the furies were greek goddesses, by the way
In Greek mythology the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς, Erinýs; literally "the angry ones") or Eumenídes (Εὐμενίδες, pl. of Εὐμενίς; literally "the gracious ones" but also translated as "Kind-hearted Ones" or "Kindly Ones") or Furies or Dirae in Roman mythology were female chthonic deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead. A formulaic oath in the Iliad (iii.278ff; xix.260ff) invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath". Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes
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