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Originally Posted by Seta-San
and i'm asking what's stopping us from moving forword to the future while those who are predisposed to waiting for the rapture wait endlessly for the end that isn't coming?
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Because these people often get into positions of power, and they tend to legislate against progress. See Bush's bioethics council, for instance.
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Originally Posted by Seta-San
The dark ages, btw, aren't the dark ages because of religion.
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Tell this to those who died by the hands of the church
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'You're spying and betraying Switzerland to try and keep alive somebody with a hook and spinal fluid and no skull in an irreversible coma? And
I thought I was disturbed. You're making me totally reorient my idea of
disturbed, mister.'
- David Foster Wallace, "
Infinite Jest"
Last edited by Boltzmann; July 14th, 2007 at 01:19..