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Subject: Greatest citizen


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Newry Nyuck
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Date Posted: 18:53:06 11/20/04 Sat
In reply to: Nick (UK) 's message, "Updates" on 17:23:01 11/20/04 Sat
 I nominate Charles Haddon Spurgeon as the greatest citizen instead of the monster Darwin.
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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 15:07:54 11/21/04 Sun

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[> [> Subject: Perhaps because 'Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.'


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Nick (UK)
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Date Posted: 22:35:49 11/21/04 Sun

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 23:31:34 11/21/04 Sun
Yes, but I hardly think that Mr Newry Neock or whatever he calls himself has much antipathy to hypocrisy, since he seems to suggest establishing a militant theocracy whilst castigating Popery and El Islam - the two greatest Theocratic institutions since the fall of Tibet.

And I'm all for hypocrisy. Wilde called it 'the English vice', referring to the paradox that dishonourable people who wanted to convince others that they were honourable had to behave in an honourable manner in order to do so. If hypocrisy makes us behave better out of fear of being 'found out', then all the better!

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[> [> [> [> Subject: I agree


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Nick (UK)
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Date Posted: 10:45:31 11/22/04 Mon

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[> [> [> [> Subject: The English Vice (so called)


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Date Posted: 17:17:33 11/22/04 Mon
"Wilde called it 'the English vice', "

I thought that was something else, which he himself practiced!

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: what would that be - intelligent thought?


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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 19:47:14 11/22/04 Mon

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Only Americans call buggery "The English Vice".


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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 22:43:58 11/22/04 Mon
And anyway, in his case it was "the Anglo-Irish Vice"!

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