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In reply to the discussion: What DU has taught me about religion. [View all]NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)22. I seem to be in a Python (Monty) mood today...
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As founding member, I hereby claim the title of Vermin Bruce #1 (aka Vermin Bruce Prime) (on the pretense and presumption that I have actually traveled to Wollongong {voluntarily no less} in real life {RL}) and declare the following rules:
1) No poofers! (aka gods, or those entities with the propensity to cause, create or invoke phantom poof-ing which subsequently instills unreasonable awe, devotion and/or admiration from the faithiests, FSM excepted).
2) No member of the faculty is to maltreat the "faithiests" in any way whatsoever, if there's anyone watching.
3) No poofers!
4) For this term, I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out.
5) No poofers!
6) There is no... rule six.
7) No poofers!
8) Enumerating what meager nuggets of wisdom or irrationality, folly or thoughtlessness (as the case may be) that might have been inadvertently excavated by the faithiests in the other forum over the previous week, and
9) Engage in copious drinking
Right,
That concludes the readin' of the rules, Bruce.
This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
Here at the UofW, we shall (but not only):
Discuss the history, development, advancement, debauchment, confinement, improvement and practice of Philosophy,
Sing our favorite song,
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Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shanty was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: 'I drink, therefore I am.'
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed,
and drink copious beverages
Any takers?
Are there any other Vermin Bruces who would like to become members of the faculty?
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Oh, and don't forget to thank god every time a surgeon saves a life. n/t
Binkie The Clown
May 2015
#13
I would add that when the topic is Uganda...they let the thread sink like a stone. (nt)
LostOne4Ever
May 2015
#8
Respect for religion appears to be an ever changing wall of special pleading.
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#12
And they wonder why liberal Christianity has failed to provide an alternative to rw zealotry.
Act_of_Reparation
May 2015
#17
I learnt that "respect for people" means it's fine to call them fundamentalists and vermin
muriel_volestrangler
May 2015
#20
Nice to know their tolerance of human beings only extends as far as a political party, I guess.
trotsky
May 2015
#42
except of course if they are creationists, mormons, or scientologists.
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#50