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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2003-08-26 07:54 pm

Quotes

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
- Stephen Roberts

There is a huge differnece between being a free thinker and a so called "non-conformist" who rebels against rules that aren't worth fighting anyway.

"If the book, the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?" - Robert G. Ingersoll

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. -- Stanley Milgram

[identity profile] wolflady26.livejournal.com 2003-08-26 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny, I find myself noticing the flaws in each of those quotes much more than I find myself agreeing with them.

[identity profile] kpollock.livejournal.com 2003-08-27 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
well there's at least one typo...

[identity profile] wolflady26.livejournal.com 2003-08-27 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.My.God.

I stayed up for 45 minutes writing a long-winded response to each of those quotes.

And it disappeared.

I think I'm going to commit seppuku now.