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cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
3. Better to think oneself an intellectual than to actually be an enabler of child-rape and misogyny.
Wed May 8, 2013, 09:00 PM
May 2013
 

rug

(82,333 posts)
6. Except, gasp, it wasn't.
Wed May 8, 2013, 09:05 PM
May 2013

I'm sure you can explain how you got to that point from the OP cartoon.

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
7. It is now.
Wed May 8, 2013, 09:07 PM
May 2013

I'm sure you can explain how you can continue to support an institution that protects child-rapers and misogyny.

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
9. I'm sure you have. It truely is bizarre to think how one can continue to enable an institution that
Wed May 8, 2013, 11:06 PM
May 2013

protects child-rapers and promotes a hateful misogynistic doctrine.

Bizarre thinking, indeed.

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
2. Superman is the most obvious example. When he was a young lad, he couldn't fly.
Wed May 8, 2013, 06:49 PM
May 2013

Last edited Wed May 8, 2013, 07:46 PM - Edit history (1)

That's why he was able to leap tall buildings at a single bound, which makes no sense at all to someone who can fly.



*People skeptical of the actuality of Superman sometimes point to competing superhero Doc Savage. Doc Savage, another orphan, who coincidentally was also named Clark, had a hidden retreat in the arctic wastes called the Fortress of Solitude. All this is mere coincidence, of course, nothing to do with competition. To see that there's no comparison, know that while Superman was the man of steel, Doc Savage was the man of bronze. Nothing like at all.



dimbear

(6,271 posts)
11. For a little more on rebooting, consider (don't read) the infamous History's 16 Crucified Saviors
Thu May 9, 2013, 07:58 PM
May 2013
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=3313330


The scholarship is laughable by today's standards, but the gist of it, that religious figures appear in obedience to leitmotifs, seems to be so. It would be a great service to the field for a modern author to take up this lance, and I can suggest updating the title to 17 Crucified Saviors, given the enigmatic message of the Gabriel Revelation stone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Revelation
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