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Date Posted: 21:01:38 02/28/03 Fri
Author: Aristohirudes
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Subject: I started reading Why I Am Not A Christian last week
In reply to: Wally 's message, "Russel married a bunch of young women." on 15:36:37 02/27/03 Thu

(i.e., skimmed the first chapter on the way home, bookmarked it for later and promptly forgot about it)

Wonder what he objected to more, the idea that the morality of sympathy couldn't have come about without religion, that morality should be disposed of like a screaming, shitting, ugly, unwanted, fat, obnoxious baby with all that precious bathwater or the fact that Nietzsche was a fucking loon.

QUAE erat demonstrandum?

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Really, all philosophy since the Stoics was people trying to avoid having to be stoic. -- Wally, 21:44:01 02/28/03 Fri

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