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  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 19,386 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 11

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    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 19,386 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 26,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.” -Unknown

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ”I am searching for the bones of your father, but I cannot distinguish them from those of his slaves.”

    ~ Diogenes to Alexander the Great

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 26,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    H. L. Mencken

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 19,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My disagree, since the word Puritanism and the Puritans in general are vastly misunderstood, and the negative connotations associated with them have outgrown the core beliefs and practices.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • edz
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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 26,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 14

    Pointing out when the moral teachings of any religion veer into authoritarian social control is legitimate. Undue oppression sucks. Humor is a useful tool.

    "Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried" - Winston Churchill

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 19,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry, Edward, I didn't realize it might have been tongue-in-cheek.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis