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Penultimate Amazing
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"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way." —Ponder Stibbons |
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele Don't you wish someone had slapped baby Hitler really really hard? [i] Dr. Buzzo 02/13 [i] |
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a carbon based life-form
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Penultimate Amazing
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If I see somebody with a gun on a plane? I'll kill him. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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If I see somebody with a gun on a plane? I'll kill him. |
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a carbon based life-form
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Penultimate Amazing
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Yesterday upon the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish that he would go away. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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If I see somebody with a gun on a plane? I'll kill him. |
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Heretic Pharaoh
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![]() Life is mostly Froth and Bubble - Adam Lindsay Gordon The Australasian Skeptics Forum
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Penultimate Amazing
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Yesterday upon the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish that he would go away. |
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its going to be a sort of prone position to start with, with blood leaking out of his ears and with some fungus growing on his ass before intestinal and exterior parasites consume everthing but the bones, which being rifled by predatory animals will form a sort of scattered pile spread over 50 square feet
me, I'll be in my bunker with all the women
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Penultimate Amazing
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"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way." —Ponder Stibbons |
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Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro
Is this real three days and nights or the easy peasy Jesus Half a Friday, Friday Night, Saturday. Saturday night, Sunday morning? If it's the Jesus bad weekend count, I can cut my supply by over 33%. That will save me several dollars and this will make me more Christlike as Jesus Saves. |
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"Such reports are usually based on the sighting of something the sighters cannot explain and that they (or someone else on their behalf) explain as representing an interstellar spaceship-often by saying "But what else can it be?" as though thier own ignorance is a decisive factor." Isaac Asimov |
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Grammar Resistance Leader
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10:1 women:men
I'm thinking that since I'm as nearly perfect as anyone on the earth, I'm bound to be one of the saved. Can someone make sure they don't bomb the Viagra plant? I'm not as young as I used to be.
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele Don't you wish someone had slapped baby Hitler really really hard? [i] Dr. Buzzo 02/13 [i] |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Yesterday upon the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish that he would go away. |
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Dracula 2000
How does Peace explain this 10:1 women to men ratio, anyway? Isn't the nuclear war/nuclear winter going to affect everyone equally? Or is God a misandrist? |
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan |
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If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
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Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. - Charles Mingus |
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Italy 0 England 0 (after extra time)
Peace Crusader, could you explain why we'll only need sufficient food and water for three days (and nights)? A nuclear war is going to render the environment inhospitable to life for much longer than three days, and should two-thirds of the world's population die, I very much doubt that there will be shops or the infrastructure required to supply the shops for a great deal longer than three days. If the holy spirit was any kind of deity, wouldn't it know that nuclear war means that survivors will need to be self-sufficient for months rather than three days? |
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... timey wimey... stuff. |
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Yesterday upon the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish that he would go away. |
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32 Days and Counting Down...
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele Don't you wish someone had slapped baby Hitler really really hard? [i] Dr. Buzzo 02/13 [i] |
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Well, the 200,000,000-strong Chinese army are undoubtedly coming together and moving now, I'm sure they are preparing almost unthinkable numbers of tanks, ships, planes and who knows what else in preparation for their attack and invasion. Oh, wait, they actually aren't? ![]() How surprising.
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Questions, comments, queries, bitches, complaints, rude gestures and/or remarks? |
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips
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Assuming there's 30 days till WWIII that means about 77 bottles per second. Man, those guys are gonna be tired before they even hit the beaches.
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Reinterpretations, almost definitely. PeaceCrusader, the fallible, yet loyal servant that he is, will dutifully throw himself under the bus to protect the infallibility of his master. He will claim that he had misinterpreted the original message, or missed some detail, and then immediately begin his little dance again. He'll have learned nothing from the hundreds or thousands of doom mongers that came before him. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Based on a true story!
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My blood sugar was at 136 this morning...
Hey, my daughter is getting married next September, global thermonuclear war or not. Do you think you could add some stuff to your interpretive dance for me to use in the father/daughter dance? I'm not very good at dancing. |
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"JimBenArm is right" Hokulele Mom |
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"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Your daughter and you should do the Fish Slapping Dance. If your nice, she gets the big fish. Noting says Love quite like getting slapped by a fish. |
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"Such reports are usually based on the sighting of something the sighters cannot explain and that they (or someone else on their behalf) explain as representing an interstellar spaceship-often by saying "But what else can it be?" as though thier own ignorance is a decisive factor." Isaac Asimov |
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Critical Thinker
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Two by two, hands of blue
I admit, I only read this thread for the numbers. |
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"más divertido"
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99 luftbalon, me too.
I will be at a parade next Wednesday. Hope we don't get gender-selectively nuked. How does that tech work, anyway? Do the radioactive isotopes just know? Is it like gaydar? |
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"más divertido"
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99 luftbalon, me too.
I will be at a parade next Wednesday. Hope we don't get gender-selectively nuked. How does that tech work, anyway? Do the radioactive isotopes just know? Is it like gaydar? |
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Penultimate Amazing
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1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89. . .
I think you're right. Funny, with the Buffalo Bill Hawkins guy (this kid even set up his own website using the date of the prophecied nuclear war), he hung in there for a long time insisting that nuclear war had in fact started, but we just hadn't noticed it yet. Then, he did some backpedalling (the nuclear baby was conceived, then would be born 9 months later; then after that failed to happen, presumably the nuclear baby was born, but might take years to grow up and learn how to start being a nuclear war. . . ), then he just disappeared. Presumably, he'd seen the error of his ways (after the cult leader was busted for sexually molesting a child and bigamy---though he got off of the bigamy charges because of a weird law that put his provable crimes beyond a statute of limitations), and was by then simply ashamed of having believed at all. It's relatively seldom you have believers who believe strongly enough really to put themselves out there. I find it interesting what happens afterwards in cases like this. What ever happened to the doomsday RV caravan that predicted The End on May 21, 2011? |
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20120626.0245 @Marduk, #601 I am not aware that someone has copyrighted the epithet “the true God”. Could you please elaborate, like the name of the person who copyrighted it, the place, what it means, when, etc.? Who is older, the person who says he copyrighted it or the King James Version (KJV)? Why is it that there is no mark of any copyright in the KJV? Did you know that in John 17:3, KJV, the word “true God” is there? This is what the verse says: “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” |
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"más divertido"
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Pirassununga 51
Whoosh |
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20120626.0315 @AdMan, #617 I said maybe ten women for one man. I don’t know the exact ratio. But the Holy Spirit said that there will be an abundance of women. The conquerors will ask if a person believes in God. If he says yes, then he dies, like the old and the disabled. If the person says no, he maybe spared. Those who will get killed in the nuclear blast are those within a certain radius from where the atomic bomb explodes, I believe in cities and in military installations. So those in rural areas, in isolated places like an island in the Pacific Ocean or in the middle of the Sahara Desert, will be spared from the nuclear blast, but will still be affected by the war because the air that they will breathe, the water that they will drink, the food that they will eat, will be contaminated radioactively. |
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20120626.0335 @Wolrab, #614 Did you know that the Friday crucifixion day that the Christian world observes is wrong? Please read http://aristean.org/wp091.htm titled “Was Jesus crucified on a Friday?”. |
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