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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts 
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Did you ever wonder what would happen if you slapped a man who was chewing tobacco?
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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How about yelling "I've got a Bomb!" anywhere crowded?
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts
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Can you imagine what the world would be like if there were no hypothetical questions?
IMHO It would be a beautiful place
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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Hypothetical question?
Didn't you just ask one Al?
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts
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My good nephew learned an important lesson about speech. At the airport he said to my sister "Mom, you are the BOMB" and said bomb real loud. He quickly learned what being over 18 means when you say the wrong thing at the airport and got a lecture from police.
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts
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Pakar Ilusi
I stole that joke from Stephen Wright OH OH OH <---LOOK QUICK MY NUMBER OF POSTS IS 7777
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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But what if they were trying to stop a rape or get people out of the theater before a biological agent was released - or if they found out someone had a bomb strapped on?
IMHO those homilies are good for children yet support a shepard's mentality as if others were sheep or chattel. IMHO the whole class of such definitions - like "I can't define it but I know it if I see it" are the same BS you hear from kids who just don't get how to set up an algebra problem - I can understand the process but can't write down the "Let X be" - farce to the knowing and mint jelly to the ...
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Davit Sicseek Inner circle 1818 Posts
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I'm glad you already knew the origin of the "fire in a crowded theatre" judgement.
I think I may have posted this speech before here, but it is excellent: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379618149058958603# There's also a very nice debate from the Hay literature festival, covers similar material in more details (and with an "opponent") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is71zKEiMdk
Send me the truth: davitsicseek@gmail.com
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts
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It shouldn't matter to you. You don't believe in the right to free speech. Without a governing body put in place by the people under the authority of the people, there are no rights whatsoever. So yell in the theatre all you want- then try and find a witch doctor to prey the machete from your skull that was placed there by an objector to your yelling.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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I think dreamers are important. Guys like GDW should force us to consider and reconsider our deepest convictions. NOTS has quite a few dreamers--right and left-- and I am very thankful for their contributions too.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts
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Be careful GDW, the first ones the socialist kill are the anarchist, followed by the Jewish people, then pretty much who ever they please.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On 2010-11-03 23:47, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Is that some hip Canada thing? "North Of The States"?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2010-11-03 14:51, LobowolfXXX wrote: Prisoner's Dilemma. |
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts
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I find it hilarious that one nasty little boy doesn't like the other nasty little boy.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On 2010-11-04 00:22, LobowolfXXX wrote: Several posters (I think starting with Stoneunhinged) refer to this forum as NOTS. But your version is creative; well done. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts
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On 2010-11-04 07:50, Al Angello wrote: ???? Quote:
On 2010-11-04 09:21, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: What does it stand for then? Or is it not an acronym?
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
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Skip Way Inner circle 3771 Posts
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North Carolina State is currently broiling with controversy over free speech. The campus has designated a certain pedestrian tunnel as the "Free Expression" tunnel where students may express themselves "freely" with graffiti...so long as no one takes offense...at which point the content is censored and removed. The tunnel has sported untouched crude and angry comments and artwork against the school, the governor, past presidents, Congress, cops, the military - but mention Obama or the LGBT and it becomes censored hate speech.
Student protesters have now barricaded the tunnel and one sophomore stated, "We'll be out here until we can guarantee that we don't have to walk through this tunnel and worry about what's written on the wall." One protesting student complained, "It's free expression, but nobody is walking through, regulating it." The state of Free Expression at NCSU. http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/8565346/
How you leave others feeling after an Experience with you becomes your Trademark.
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts
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On 2010-11-04 09:53, Skip Way wrote: Lol, that's quite funny for many reasons.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts
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On 2010-11-03 22:55, magicfish wrote: "Rights" are not something granted by the "benevolence" of rulers.. Just because one does not think a government is necessary, does not mean one doesn't "believe" in "rights."
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts
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On 2010-11-03 22:41, Davit Sicseek wrote: Actually, the mentioning of the danish cartoons is a great example. There is, today, far more to suggest insulting mohamed and the like can present more of a "clear and present danger" than the anti war pamphlets that got it stared.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
I won't forget you Robert. |
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