frogcycle
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Fri Jan-26-07 02:18 PM
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"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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Fri Jan-26-07 02:22 PM
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1. "...rival interpretations of Star Wars..." |
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Originally shot trilogy: Catholics Special Editions: Protestants
I predict a war over whether Han or Greedo shot first.
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Fri Jan-26-07 02:22 PM
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2. That is an awesome quote. |
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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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frogcycle
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Fri Jan-26-07 02:24 PM
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4. I have long been using the analogy |
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that we are all participants in a Miller Lite commercial with John Madden setting us at each other's throats
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