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Book Burning
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I just read that a church in Georgia, USA recently organised a book burning. Harry Potter books (works of Satan, apparently) and so on all to go up in smoke.
:: Quickly splashes some water over face as overcome by another series of visions of Nazi Germany ::
Sorry, but I find that kind of thing quite disturbing. If I could, I'd be tempted to lock the people involved in the Stone Age and tell them to evolve into a more responsible species.
I wonder if it would be possible to bring a court case against organised religion, banning it on the grounds that it interferes with freedom of thought / expression. If so, I'd be very amused. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
:: Quickly splashes some water over face as overcome by another series of visions of Nazi Germany ::
Sorry, but I find that kind of thing quite disturbing. If I could, I'd be tempted to lock the people involved in the Stone Age and tell them to evolve into a more responsible species.
I wonder if it would be possible to bring a court case against organised religion, banning it on the grounds that it interferes with freedom of thought / expression. If so, I'd be very amused. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
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Playing with fire will ultimately see you burnt <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/ukliam2.gif">
An act of defiance is slightly different.
But I can only assume that you feel that censorship is not a big issue either then?
I guess free speech isn't an issue in Georgia.
i didnt actually read the first post, i just saw book burning and stuck in a useless comment <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif">
Playing with fire will ultimately see you burnt <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/ukliam2.gif">
The thing is, they probably have guns, too.
Face it, the gun is here to stay. I do hope that I never have to draw my weapon in self-defense again. When it is kill or be killed and you have no question that the person coming at you means to do you harm, it becomes a matter of survival. When your family is with you, the stakes get even higher.
Ah, a dose of realism. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
Of course, you have to assume that your survival and that of your kin would be good... but that's hardly something you can think about in the middle of an average gunfight. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
Civilisation is but a thin veneer...
a face?
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
~ Nietzsche
Do you see the irony in those two statements. You own the gun because you FEAR them. They own guns because they FEAR you.
You both live in FEAR and yet you believe yourself to be 'free'.
Course we are. We can make any decision we want to - I can go and mow down 100 people if I like. There is nothing to stop you doing that. You can do whatever the hell you want - but there will be consequences of your actions. Jews were free under Hitler, they could either do as he says or not do it. They had the choice. They would have been killed not doing as they were told, but there was a choice. Incidentally they were killed both ways so it's probably a poor example.
A slave is free. He can do what he wants. He can disobey his master - he'll be punished but he can do it.
There is always an alternative - you may not like it, it may be stupid, it may be the wrong choice, but it's always an option.
Playing with fire will ultimately see you burnt <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/ukliam2.gif">
One of the American freedom loving gun toting trolls here, Just making a one nite only apperance on this silly little board.
just to offend anti-gun morons.
But since I live in GEORGIA, U.S.A. I thought I would jump in here and let you know that this is total Bull Shit. No church is burning books. it's a lie. If a church did that it would be all over the news. It ain't. Because it ain't true.
Have a nice life and remember FREEDOM ISN"T FREE it is bought and paid for with the blood of Patriots.
Vote out your Socialist( labor) party. get your guns back before it's to late.
[This message has been edited by Pigsticker (edited 19-07-2001).]
Galland
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." - Oscar Wilde
"where now they burn books, perhaps I fear one day they shall burn people."
even the greatest of landslides are started by the tiniest movement of stones.
just thought that was a relevant point....
oh, btw, i'm back from my travels.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
No, I think the "burn books, burn men" quote is from a German. Shirer did write a piece on the book-burnings, though. I have access to a dictionary of quotations, so I'll look it up and post it when I get the chance.
[This message has been edited by MacKenZie (edited 20-07-2001).]