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  • #31
    Originally posted by seer View Post
    Looks like the commies changed their mind!

    http://news.yahoo.com/school-banned-...140225476.html
    Seer, here's another one for your comments:

    http://www.wric.com/story/25566223/m...hangman-doodle
    That's what
    - She

    Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
    - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

    I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
    - Stephen R. Donaldson

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
      Seer, here's another one for your comments:

      http://www.wric.com/story/25566223/m...hangman-doodle
      Nothing less than madness...
      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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      • #33
        Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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        • #34
          Originally posted by seer View Post
          Looks like the commies changed their mind!

          http://news.yahoo.com/school-banned-...140225476.html

          Now they're "commies". What next?

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Paprika View Post

            Now they're "commies". What next?
            Really smelly commies?
            Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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            • #36
              Originally posted by seer View Post
              Really smelly commies?
              It's more Orwellian than commie.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by seanD View Post
                It's more Orwellian than commie.
                Both, they have all deep socialistic tendencies...
                Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                • #38
                  Yet another instance of hysterical over-reactions, stimulated by the worst kind of sensationalistic journalism, intimidating decent people into giving into irrational and arbitrary demands.
                  Don't call it a comeback. It's a riposte.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Spartacus View Post
                    Yet another instance of hysterical over-reactions, stimulated by the worst kind of sensationalistic journalism, intimidating decent people into giving into irrational and arbitrary demands.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by seer View Post
                      Really smelly commies?
                      I would really love to see how their actions prove them to be communists but I really doubt I'd get a coherent and valid explanation out of you.

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Spartacus View Post
                        Yet another instance of hysterical over-reactions, stimulated by the worst kind of sensationalistic journalism, intimidating decent people into giving into irrational and arbitrary demands.
                        The triumphal crowing over a successful armtwist via media can only last until the situation is reversed.

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Paprika View Post
                          The triumphal crowing over a successful armtwist via media can only last until the situation is reversed.
                          As happened with Eich and Mozilla. Media-induced mobs and firestorms-- or the fear thereof-- generally lead to bad decisions on the part of those in authority.
                          Don't call it a comeback. It's a riposte.

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Spartacus View Post
                            As happened with Eich and Mozilla. Media-induced mobs and firestorms-- or the fear thereof-- generally lead to bad decisions on the part of those in authority.
                            What a stupid comparison. Nobody was fired over this. The people the school worked for were dissatisfied with a course of action directly related to their job... so they changed it back. Eich wasn't chased out of his position because people didn't like the direction he took Mozilla in (or was he?), he was chased out because of a personal opinion on something that has nothing to do with his job.
                            "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

                            There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                              What a stupid comparison. Nobody was fired over this. The people the school worked for were dissatisfied with a course of action directly related to their job... so they changed it back. Eich wasn't chased out of his position because people didn't like the direction he took Mozilla in (or was he?), he was chased out because of a personal opinion on something that has nothing to do with his job.
                              In both cases, the threat of a media firestorm and "popular outrage" precipitated the action. You need not stretch the analogy beyond that point.
                              Don't call it a comeback. It's a riposte.

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by Spartacus View Post
                                In both cases, the threat of a media firestorm and "popular outrage" precipitated the action. You need not stretch the analogy beyond that point.
                                You do actually because action precipitated by media firestorm and "popular outrage" is insufficient to claim the decision was bad. It's also not quite what happened in this case since it wasn't the popular outrage per se that led to a change, but the dissatisfaction of the students and parents the school serves.
                                "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

                                There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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