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Atheists & Agnostics

saidsimplesimon

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1. Thank you, scottie

Reply to beam me up scottie (Original post)

Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:05 AM

Sep 2017

Just a bit off topic on my part. Any mention of the word "Free" reminds me of Ayn Rand and her extreme libertarian views. From the custom auto plates in AZ that parrot the freedom meme, they are not free but slaves to an ideology.

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Freethought of the Day: James Fenimore Cooper [View all] beam me up scottie Sep 2017 OP

Thank you, scottie saidsimplesimon Sep 2017 #1

That's understandable but in this context it's quite liberal. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #2

Rand was not a free thinker. In fact and practice Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #4

A bit late scottie saidsimplesimon Sep 2017 #6

Free Thinkers in Texas northoftheborder Sep 2017 #3

They have forgotten the faces of their fathers. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #5

Leatherstocking Tales are SOOOOOOO good. Cuthbert Allgood Sep 2017 #7