Shirina
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Post by Shirina on Jul 3, 2011 16:52:45 GMT -5
What ... the ... hell?
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Virgil Showlion
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[b]leones potest resistere[/b]
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 3, 2011 17:02:35 GMT -5
I think I broke Shirina.
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Post by privateinvestor on Jul 3, 2011 17:06:35 GMT -5
I think I broke Shirina. I'll wager you Ms. Shirina will put herself back together, dust herself off, and come back again just as good as ever or probably even better..
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mmhmm
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 3, 2011 17:07:44 GMT -5
Not to worry, Virgil. I've been posting with Shirina on various boards for a long time. She's quite resourceful, and probably indestructible. ;D
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Virgil Showlion
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 3, 2011 17:19:14 GMT -5
Rereading #122, the statement does seem too strongly worded. I shall restate: "I occasionally wonder if certain interest groups in the US deliberately overlook the negative consequences of eliminating JudeoChristian laws, morals, and traditions because they view Christian fundamentalism as the greater threat." Suppose we imagine Christian fundamentalism to be cream. Some people look at cream and say, "It clogs up your arteries. It raises your cholesterol. Society would be better off if we just got rid of cream." But maybe there's a powerful pro-cream lobby. And everyone knows that cream by itself is bland. You have to eat it on top of strawberries. But the anti-creamers think, "Strawberries are pretty good. They have some vitamins and nutrients in them. But we could manhandle the Establishment Clause to declare strawberries unconstitutional. Get them out of the nation's grocery stores. And without strawberries, nobody will eat the cream." Some anti-creamers would say, "No way. I'm no fan of cream, but I'm not taking down strawberries to prove it." But others--and perhaps quite a few of them--might say, "Strawberries gotta go for the greater good." So strawberries are banned and life goes on. But then people start putting cream on raspberries. So raspberries have to go too. Then blueberries. Then bananas, peaches, apricots... Incrementally, until every good fruit is illegal. And since most people are quick to forget what the fruits tasted like, they have little or no appreciation for what was lost. They're still focused on the fact that the dang cream is still there. If you have no appreciation for what you've lost; if your only goal is making "progress" and striving ever harder to get rid of the cream; I wonder... could you go so far as to dismantle your grocery store fruit by fruit until there's nothing left? As the last kumquat is taken from the bare shelves, and nobody except the die-hardest of die-hard cream fans buys cream anymore, might you consider yourself "victorious"? Apologies for the fruity analogy.
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Post by privateinvestor on Jul 3, 2011 17:23:29 GMT -5
Rereading #122, the statement does seem too strongly worded. I shall restate: "I occasionally wonder if certain interest groups in the US deliberately overlook the negative consequences of eliminating JudeoChristian laws, morals, and traditions because they view Christian fundamentalism as the greater threat." I would have to add the ACLU could be one of those groups as well as a little known college prof out here named Prof Newdow...if you never heard of him check him out.. Newdow v. Roberts, (D DC, filed 12/29/2008) this guy is a one man wrecking machine ..
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