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Who's in Hell? - A look at who failed to make it into Heaven

Started by MadBomr101, May 31, 2012, 05:27:03 AM

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markmcdaniel

#15
June 05, 2012, 10:52:43 PM
It might be worth going to hell after all. The chance to sit at Darwin's feet and talk natural history and exploration, physics with Einstein, paleontology with Stephen Jay Gould, astronomy with Sagan, Politics and governance with John Adams, philosophy with Nietzsche and Confucius, and what can't you talk about with Jefferson and Franklin. Then when you need a break from this the chance to listen to Twain, Carlin, and Douglas Adams. Well, if you will pardon the expression, you might think you had died and gone to heaven. However, I have no intention of arriving in hell until Satin has kicked L. Ron Hubbard out and into the other place. The thought of hell run by Scientologists, even Mormon Scientologists, gives me the the creeps.
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science - Charles Darwin

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the object of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a god, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. - Albert Einstein

Religion is a by product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity. - Arther C. Clarke

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Genericguy

#16
June 06, 2012, 01:37:51 AM
I would love to have a chat with L Ron Hubbard! He successfully pulled off a prank at the global level. I'm just hoping he has a letter or something, confessing scientology is crap, with instructions to be opened at a certain date. I bet people would still follow Scientology.

philosoraptor

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June 06, 2012, 08:15:41 AM
Quote from: Genericguy on June 06, 2012, 01:37:51 AM
I would love to have a chat with L Ron Hubbard! He successfully pulled off a prank at the global level. I'm just hoping he has a letter or something, confessing scientology is crap, with instructions to be opened at a certain date. I bet people would still follow Scientology.

I don't know about a letter, but I'm pretty sure old L. Ron was known to have said that the best way to make money was to start a religion.  Google seems to agree with this, although it's possible it's a quote that was incorrectly attributed to him.
"Come ride with me through the veins of history,
I'll show you how god falls asleep on the job.
And how can we win when fools can be kings?
Don't waste your time or time will waste you."
-Muse

Guardian85

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June 06, 2012, 10:39:44 AM
Quote from: AnimatedDirt on June 05, 2012, 09:28:13 PM
Anyway didn't Darwin have a deathbed conversion?  ;)

Myth. Busted.  ;D


"If scientist means 'not the dumbest motherfucker in the room,' I guess I'm a scientist, then."
-Unknown Smartass-
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