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Post by Chromeo on Jun 27, 2012 17:43:35 GMT -5
"Hell is other furries." - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Post by Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Jun 28, 2012 1:09:24 GMT -5
You totally ruined my quote, GM! Now I don't even remember my original quote. It's lost forever. ;_;
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Post by Tails82 on Jun 28, 2012 1:47:15 GMT -5
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." -G.K. Chesterton
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Post by Tails82 on Jul 2, 2012 2:54:03 GMT -5
"God governs in the affairs of all men. Without this recurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel." -Benjamin Franklin
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 2, 2012 4:26:13 GMT -5
But god was the one who made the tower of babel fail...
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Post by Mastery on Jul 2, 2012 5:19:26 GMT -5
Wasn't it because they didn't accept god though
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Post by Mastery on Jul 2, 2012 5:32:57 GMT -5
Ok so I checked it out on wikipedia and supposedly the original biblical story was like "let's build a city to celebrate unity as we are all one people with one language" and God was like *trollface* "How many languages did you say you had" and they were like "Uno" or something like that
Had to scroll down pretty far to get to memtion of making a tower fall
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 2, 2012 5:55:09 GMT -5
Yes, it's one of god's more petty and cruel moments. To shatter human unity. Why anyone would want to worship such a creature is beyond me.
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Post by Mastery on Jul 2, 2012 5:59:44 GMT -5
Yeah these bible stuff kinda confound me, but at least he's not a total mary sue
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 2, 2012 7:58:04 GMT -5
He's supposed to be a Mary Sue, that's why he's god.
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Post by Tails82 on Jul 3, 2012 10:21:10 GMT -5
Hubris was their undoing.
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 3, 2012 16:17:03 GMT -5
They dared to dream. It's the pinnacle of humanity.
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Post by Tails82 on Jul 4, 2012 9:36:15 GMT -5
"It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history. Great ideas do not burst upon the world unannounced. They are reached by a gradual development over a length of time usually proportionate to their importance. This is especially true of the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence. Three very definite propositions were set out in its preamble regarding the nature of mankind and therefore of government. These were the doctrine that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that therefore the source of the just powers of government must be derived from the consent of the governed...
A spring will cease to flow if its source be dried up; a tree will wither if it roots be destroyed. In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers...
Our forefathers came to certain conclusions and decided upon certain courses of action which have been a great blessing to the world. Before we can understand their conclusions we must go back and review the course which they followed. We must think the thoughts which they thought. Their intellectual life centered around the meetinghouse. They were intent upon religious worship. While there were always among them men of deep learning, and later those who had comparatively large possessions, the mind of the people was not so much engrossed in how much they knew, or how much they had, as in how they were going to live. While scantily provided with other literature, there was a wide acquaintance with the Scriptures. Over a period as great as that which measures the existence of our independence they were subject to this discipline not only in their religious life and educational training, but also in their political thought. They were a people who came under the influence of a great spiritual development and acquired a great moral power.
No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren scepter in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped." -Calvin Coolidge
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 4, 2012 14:41:22 GMT -5
July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history
Uhh, nope, it's just me, Gabe Newell!
Semi-related, Taliban fox stays to fight the imperialist dogs but will be retired after the 4th.
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Post by Laharls_Wrath on Jul 13, 2012 18:53:46 GMT -5
"Ia Ia Steam Summer sale fhtagn"
the first thing Rince said when he hopped on mumble the other day
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