Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered."Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"
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I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Like Arthur Dent from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", if you do not have a Babel Fish in your ear this blog will be completely unintelligible to you and will read something like this: "boggle, google, snoggle, slurp, slurp, dingleberry to the power of 10". Fortunately, those who have had the Babel Fish inserted in their ear, will understood this blog perfectly. If you are familiar with this technology, you will know that the Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation. It excretes energy in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said; or in this case, what was read. The Babel Fish, thanks to scientific research, reverses the problem defined by its namesake in the Tower of Babel, where a deity was supposedly inspired to confuse the human race by making them unable to understand each other.
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Watch on Youtube the interview between Westmoreland and Colbert.
Rough transcript of the interview as posted at Stardust Musings:
Colbert: You have not introduced a single piece of legislation since you entered Congress.
Westmoreland: That's correct.
Colbert: This has been called a do nothing Congress. Is it safe to say you're the do nothingest?
Westmoreland: I, I, ..Well there's one other do nothiner. I don't know who that is, but they're a Democrat.
Colbert: What can we get rid of to balance the budget?
Westmoreland: The Dept. of Education.
Colbert: What are the Ten Commandments?
Westmoreland: You mean all of them?--Um... Don't murder. Don't lie. Don't steal Um... I can't name them all.
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The Ten Commandments aren't really all that important to commit to memory....
It isn't important to know the 10 commandments if you are not a christian.
Frankly, I could not call myself a christian until I knew them verbatim.
I was not allowed access to the church as an adult unless I knew them.
I think it is reasonable to expect those who profess to be christians to be able to say the 10 commandments.
But first we have to believe in God's existence, so:
The moral argument for God’s existence can be summarized as follows:
1. If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist.
2. Objective moral values do exist.
3. Therefore, God exists.
http://www.infidelguy.com/ftopicp-297841.html
Discuss.
I suspect that this guy isn't a full-on Christian - more a politician sucking up to part of his electorate for votes.
Or is that too cynical?
That video is hilarious! And obviously, Lynn ("Don't Call Me A Peach") Westmoreland doesn't think it's necessary to memorize them, either. That's why he wants to hang them in every public building, and get rid of the Department of Education -- so he can refer to them like crib notes without having to go through the bother of actually learning anything!
Ten is nine too many, IMHO. We Pagans only need one.
RE: jeffie the troll
>> How is this a logical statement?
"1. If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist."
It makes as much sense to say :~ "If a god falls in the forest and there is noone there to hear it, the god doesn't make a sound."
If a god exists, I would:
trip it in the forest; send it to Gitmo; and then interrogate it by slapping a bible around its ankles until it could give me some jolly good reasons as to why its code of morality is so crappy.
RE dikki: I suspect you are right ;)
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