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quote:At the rendezvous, Mr. Parker handed over the money to a young man who was waiting for him in a parked car. When Mr. Parker paid the ransom, he could see his daughter, Marion, sitting in the passenger seat next to the suspect. As soon as the money was exchanged, the suspect drove off with the victim still in the car. At the end of the street, Marion's corpse was dumped onto the pavement. She was dead. Her legs had been chopped off and her eyes had been wired open to appear as if she was still alive. Her internal organs had been cut out and pieces of her body were later found strewn all over the Los Angeles area. "this guy loving owns." -ayn rand
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Isn't it also not date season at the time? Yes. The supposed point is that
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Dec 31, 2016 19:57
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Yes. The supposed point is that Being translated through several languages as oral history before being written down and translated several more times over two thousand years will do this. It's why I can't understand anyone claiming the literal wording of the Bible to justify anything.
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Dec 31, 2016 21:14
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Liquid Communism posted:It's why I can't understand anyone claiming the literal wording of the Bible to justify anything. They are idiots and, like all Protestants, are going to Hell.
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Dec 31, 2016 21:23
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I'd always thought it was meant to show that critical things like satisfying hunger (or say following Jesus) need to happen now. "It's not the season." is not valid reasoning, and will drat you to be killed by destructive Jesus magic.
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Dec 31, 2016 21:37
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YHWH himself says he's a jealous and petty god, why would his son be any different? Now if you'll excuse me I have to go order my fedoras alphabetically.
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Dec 31, 2016 21:49
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Who What Now posted:YHWH himself says he's a jealous and petty god, why would his son be any different? In the KJV "jealous" has changed meaning a bit. These days it means "envious and petty" but back then it meant something like "exclusive relationship" I.e. God doesn't want you fooling around with any of those other gods (monogamy as analogous to monotheism.)
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Jan 1, 2017 00:33
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Rent-A-Cop posted:The looneys who do that believe that King James got divinely inspired to write the ONE TRUE AND PURE BIBLE IN GOD'S ENGLISH and that all other Bibles are wrong and there's is 100% perfect and infallible. Yeah KJV mangles all the poetics out of the Bible lol
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Jan 1, 2017 07:44
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Hey, if the King James was good enough for the Apostle Paul, it's good enough for you.
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Jan 1, 2017 08:27
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This keeps popping up in my Facebook as an ad:
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Jan 2, 2017 23:03
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Doc Hawkins posted:Hey, if the King James was good enough for the Apostle Paul, it's good enough for you. His 5-part essay "Christians in the Hands of an Angry God", which can be summarized as "conservative Christianity is literally Satan worship", is also worth reading.
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Jan 2, 2017 23:53
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Pope Guilty posted:His 5-part essay "Christians in the Hands of an Angry God", which can be summarized as "conservative Christianity is literally Satan worship", is also worth reading. I had to read that for a science fiction literature class
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Jan 3, 2017 07:06
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Pope Guilty posted:His 5-part essay "Christians in the Hands of an Angry God", which can be summarized as "conservative Christianity is literally Satan worship", is also worth reading.
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Jan 3, 2017 18:27
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:I had to read that for a science fiction literature class Wait, what?
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Jan 3, 2017 19:25
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VitalSigns posted:I am pretty sure Ayn Rand never went to parties.
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Jan 3, 2017 19:28
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Pope Guilty posted:Wait, what? It was a class about post-apocalyptic literature, and it turns out that divine retribution is one of the big themes in that genre. We read that essay after reading A Canticle For Leibowitz by Miller and before reading The Genocides by Disch
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Jan 4, 2017 17:40
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:It was a class about post-apocalyptic literature, and it turns out that divine retribution is one of the big themes in that genre. We read that essay after reading A Canticle For Leibowitz by Miller and before reading The Genocides by Disch That sounds like a great class.
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Jan 4, 2017 17:45
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Anti-Citizen posted:That sounds like a great class. When I get home I can PM the syllabus to you! It was really fun
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Jan 4, 2017 17:49
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Disch is one of the guys to bring up when some self-important namby-pamby is going on about abandoning sci-fi for real literature. You know, novels about white college professors in failing marriages.
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Halloween Jack posted:Disch is one of the guys to bring up when some self-important namby-pamby is going on about abandoning sci-fi for real literature. You know, novels about white college professors in failing marriages. Oh man use A Canticle for Leibowitz for that too
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Jan 4, 2017 19:19
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Doc Hawkins posted:Hey, if the King James was good enough for the Apostle Paul, it's good enough for you. Having grown up in (a marginally enlightened corner of) evangelical land, this sounds worryingly plausible.
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Jan 4, 2017 19:26
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:It was a class about post-apocalyptic literature, and it turns out that divine retribution is one of the big themes in that genre. We read that essay after reading A Canticle For Leibowitz by Miller and before reading The Genocides by Disch I took that class! Happy New Year, TTP! (and all) I'm doing great, though JRodimus_Prime gets weirder by the day. https://twitter.com/JRodimus_Prime/status/816361592833052672 WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Jan 4, 2017 20:06
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:It was a class about post-apocalyptic literature, and it turns out that divine retribution is one of the big themes in that genre. We read that essay after reading A Canticle For Leibowitz by Miller and before reading The Genocides by Disch Huh, best! I follow Brad Hicks on FB so I'll let him know- given he's a giant SF fan I imagine he'd be tickled.
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Jan 4, 2017 20:08
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WrenP-Complete posted:I took that class! Happy New Year, TTP! (and all) I'm doing great, though JRodimus_Prime gets weirder by the day.  (funky new avatar, I like)
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Jan 4, 2017 20:19
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WrenP-Complete posted:I took that class! Happy New Year, TTP! (and all) I'm doing great, though JRodimus_Prime gets weirder by the day. Wizards are dicks, so this checks out
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Jan 4, 2017 23:30
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WrenP-Complete posted:I took that class! Happy New Year, TTP! (and all) I'm doing great, though JRodimus_Prime gets weirder by the day. Only the best, the grandest of wizards.
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Jan 4, 2017 23:38
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Wizards: no sense of right and wrong.
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Jan 5, 2017 00:24
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I have it on good authority that only Correct Wizards are properly libertarian, but loyalty to them will save you from communist mind control.
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I wonder if anyone else is reading wizard in the sense of "can't find anyone willing to have sex with them"
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Liquid Communism posted:I have it on good authority that only Correct Wizards are properly libertarian, but loyalty to them will save you from communist mind control. gently caress, I forgot that plot point. I read that series when it was new and I was young, and so much of that stuff sailed right past me.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:gently caress, I forgot that plot point. I read that series when it was new and I was young, and so much of that stuff sailed right past me. Well do I have some good news for you, there's an amazing Let's Read of it! Be warned, though, there is a loooooooooooooooooooooooot more rape in it than you remember.
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if anyone else is reading wizard in the sense of "can't find anyone willing to have sex with them" I was thinking more along the lines of a Grand Wizard. Makes the quote nonsensical and racist so it checks out for libertarianism.
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:It was a class about post-apocalyptic literature, and it turns out that divine retribution is one of the big themes in that genre. We read that essay after reading A Canticle For Leibowitz by Miller and before reading The Genocides by Disch Relevant to the thread, The Infamous Brad also cheekily argues that Ayn Rand's dystopian novel Anthem is actually a post-apocalyptic third book in the Atlas Shrugged Trilogy.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Relevant to the thread, The Infamous Brad also cheekily argues that Ayn Rand's dystopian novel Anthem is actually a post-apocalyptic third book in the Atlas Shrugged Trilogy. I love this argument. Also: https://twitter.com/JRodimus_Prime/status/817035115671027713 ?!
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Who What Now posted:Well do I have some good news for you, there's an amazing Let's Read of it! Be warned, though, there is a loooooooooooooooooooooooot more rape in it than you remember. Oh god. I'm going to read the thread from the start, and hate you and myself for it.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Oh god. I'm going to read the thread from the start, and hate you and myself for it. It's so, so, so much worse than you remember.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:04
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Bitcoin crashed by 20%. Let the good times roll.
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CommieGIR posted:Bitcoin crashed by 20%. Let the good times roll. Well it is Thursday.
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theshim posted:Not yet you don't. Someone brought up nambles on page 4, I'm now testing my knives to find the sharpest. I read these and enjoyed them until the last chapter of the last book.
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WrenP-Complete posted:I took that class! Happy New Year, TTP! (and all) I'm doing great, though JRodimus_Prime gets weirder by the day. Oh man Wren we need to catch up sometime! Did you take that class with Elizabeth Hewitt?? She is my fav English professor haha Happy new year to everyone in the thread! I forgot to post the syllabus last night, but I will after my eye appointment! 
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