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"The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing that destiny has given us, which is life. We should rather aspire to a heaven where only the planets live in eternal bliss, receiving neither rewards nor condemnations, but enjoying merely their own eternal motion in the arms of the void. Be strong like the sages of ancient Greece and look at death with steady eye and no fear. Jesus sweated too much, awaiting it. Why should he have been afraid, for that matter, since he was going to rise again?" - Monsieur de Saint-Savin
The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco. Trans. William Weaver. (New York: Penguin Books, 1995): 60.
The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco. Trans. William Weaver. (New York: Penguin Books, 1995): 60.
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Posted 01-20-2009 at 06:33 AM by wizisme
i wud like 2 cumment on de story butt it maid fun uv my lord & taylor jesus crist.
u r dum if u think there iz no god, loser!!111111111oneonoe btw, the chic in the pic has an amazing azz lol |
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Posted 02-25-2009 at 06:04 PM by project86
What an illogical, complete mess of words. I shouldn't be surprised that you would enjoy a comment which unabashedly commits at least four fatal fallacies and two contradictions.
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Posted 03-07-2009 at 03:33 AM by Sparafucil
Oh noes! A passage of Voltairean prose doesn't live up to the narrow analytic ratiocination of project86. We must commit all literature to the flames!
And yet, if his previous displays of critiquing rational arguments are anything to go by, perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to consign our dear friend Saint-Savin to the auto-de-fe after all... |
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Updated 03-07-2009 at 05:22 AM by Sparafucil |
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Posted 11-08-2009 at 09:40 AM by Noizic
Those words are incredible!
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