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onager

(9,356 posts)
8. But remember, we're the arrogant ones!
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 07:57 PM
Sep 2014

ETA - Ha! TxDemChem beat me to it.

I like a quote from Carl Sagan about this. IIRC - "The universe appears to be neither benign or hostile. Only indifferent."

A quote guaranteed to drive the Special Snowflakes even crazier.

There's an old Southern joke about this:

Jasper gets up one morning, and like every day, heads out to the cotton field with his pickin' sack.

He's out in the field picking cotton when he looks up in the sky and sees A SIGN FROM GAWD!

So Jasper runs off to the parsonage. "Preacher! Preacher! Miracle! I just saw A SIGN FROM GAWD! I saw a message in the clouds! The clouds spelt out the letters 'G-P-C.' So I figured it must mean "Go Preach Christ." I'm gonna be a preacher just like you!"

The preacher thought about this miracle for a minute and said: "Jasper, I'm afraid you have misinterpreted God's message. In your case, the letters 'G-P-C' obviously mean "Go Pick Cotton."

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they have had lots of experience at just making shit up RussBLib Sep 2014 #1
It's just so disingenuous Gelliebeans Sep 2014 #4
What a bunch of crap! AlbertCat Sep 2014 #2
It's threatening I believe Gelliebeans Sep 2014 #3
We've found extra-solar systems with planets in the 'goldilocks zone' already. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #5
I have taken up Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #15
But making shit up is so much fun. Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #6
Lol nice and concise TxDemChem Sep 2014 #7
+1 n/t trotsky Oct 2014 #16
Absofuckinglutely you are!!!!! Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #11
But remember, we're the arrogant ones! onager Sep 2014 #8
Lol Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #12
I think I cussed though most of the 2 minutes and whatever seconds. BlueJazz Sep 2014 #9
I know right? Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #14
That drove me nuts. deucemagnet Oct 2014 #18
And from infancy.... defacto7 Oct 2014 #10
I have learned more Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #13
That's some of the most amazingly deceptive quote mining I've ever seen. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #17
does yours have a Web? ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2014 #19
Yes my dear Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #20
Good to hear. ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2014 #21
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