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jdyoung

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Jul 27, 2019, 4:18:01 PM7/27/19
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I posted an article a few days ago under the subject "Jewish Holocaust
or German Holocaust". I should have read the article better than I
did. Had I done so, I never would have posted it in the first place.
It was indeed highly anti-Semitic. I extend an apology to anyone who
may have felt offended, and promise not to post such a diatribe in the
future.



First Among Castrators Of Jews

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Jul 27, 2019, 4:19:50 PM7/27/19
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What's the merit of apologizing to Jews? I wouldn't; they are money lenders...

Michael Christ

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Jul 27, 2019, 6:05:09 PM7/27/19
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I accept your apology.





Michael Christ

Cloud Hobbit

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Jul 27, 2019, 6:22:23 PM7/27/19
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You didn't read it all.
The antisemitism was obvious.

You pulled a Tandy.

Michael Christ

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Jul 27, 2019, 6:24:08 PM7/27/19
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Yet another perfect sinner with self as God.





Michael Christ

Viktor Tandofsky

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Jul 27, 2019, 6:59:14 PM7/27/19
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Is that why both Bob and I call you a liar?

Cloud Hobbit

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Jul 27, 2019, 7:15:49 PM7/27/19
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Dickless Mcdumbass said:

>Is that why both Bob and I call you a liar?

You call everyone who disagrees with you a liar. Coming from you the word has no meaning.

"Bob" does essentially the same thing.

It's kinda tough deciding which of you is more contemptible.


Viktor Tandofsky

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Jul 27, 2019, 8:10:29 PM7/27/19
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I would not be offended if you had explained that you don't accept what the deniers say.I've been debunking their crap for years and they fool lots of people. You were not the first,

Michael Christ

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Jul 27, 2019, 8:26:30 PM7/27/19
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I also call Cloud Insane a liar but only because he needs to learn that.
It's pretty obvious though.





Michael Christ

John Locke

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Jul 27, 2019, 11:29:18 PM7/27/19
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...sin is a mater of twisted religious perspective. And "God", being
humanly fabricated, means that Cloud is most certainly superior
to your deity.

___________________________________________________________________


Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man
living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every
day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does
not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a
special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and
anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke
and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time...

But He loves you! - George Carlin

Cloud Hobbit

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Jul 27, 2019, 11:35:49 PM7/27/19
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John Locke said:


>.sin is a mater of twisted religious perspective. And "God", being
humanly fabricated, means that Cloud is most certainly superior
to your deity.

<blush>

Viktor Tandofsky

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Jul 27, 2019, 11:43:58 PM7/27/19
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On Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 8:29:18 PM UTC-7, John Locke wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:24:03 +1000, Michael Christ
> <jesusisth...@hotmail.con> wrote:
>
> >On 28/07/2019 8:22 am, Cloud Hobbit wrote:
> >> Nazi dickhead said:
> >>
> >>> posted an article a few days ago under the subject "Jewish Holocaust
> >> or German Holocaust". I should have read the article better than I
> >> did. Had I done so, I never would have posted it in the first place.
> >> It was indeed highly anti-Semitic. I extend an apology to anyone who
> >> may have felt offended, and promise not to post such a diatribe in the
> >> future.
> >>
> >> You didn't read it all.
> >> The antisemitism was obvious.
> >>
> >> You pulled a Tandy.
> >>
> >
> >Yet another perfect sinner with self as God.
> >
> ...sin is a mater of twisted religious perspective. And "God", being
> humanly fabricated, means that Cloud is most certainly superior
> to your deity.
>
Our God is not a chronic liar.

Michael Christ

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Jul 28, 2019, 3:47:48 AM7/28/19
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On 28/07/2019 1:29 pm, John Locke wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:24:03 +1000, Michael Christ
> <jesusisth...@hotmail.con> wrote:
>
>> On 28/07/2019 8:22 am, Cloud Hobbit wrote:
>>> Nazi dickhead said:
>>>
>>>> posted an article a few days ago under the subject "Jewish Holocaust
>>> or German Holocaust". I should have read the article better than I
>>> did. Had I done so, I never would have posted it in the first place.
>>> It was indeed highly anti-Semitic. I extend an apology to anyone who
>>> may have felt offended, and promise not to post such a diatribe in the
>>> future.
>>>
>>> You didn't read it all.
>>> The antisemitism was obvious.
>>>
>>> You pulled a Tandy.
>>>
>>
>> Yet another perfect sinner with self as God.
>>
> ...sin is a mater of twisted religious perspective. And "God", being
> humanly fabricated, means that Cloud is most certainly superior
> to your deity.

Yet, you are both sinners and worship yourselves and you know it.

Shame about that.




Michael Christ

Kevrob

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Jul 28, 2019, 4:14:27 AM7/28/19
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On Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 11:43:58 PM UTC-4, Viktor Tandofsky wrote:

> Our God is not a chronic liar.

Of course, he isn't, because he is not.

Yahooey does have people who lie for him.
That's a pretty nice perk for a fictional
character! You usually have to have new
material being written about you to get
that.

--
Kevin R
a.a #2310





Cloud Hobbit

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Jul 28, 2019, 5:24:53 AM7/28/19
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MXReligiowanker said:

>Yet, you are both sinners and worship yourselves and you know it.

There is no God more important to me than me. Without me, I'm nothing, just like God. I believe that my life belongs to me and those whom I choose to share it. No invisible, irrational, murdering, psychotic, nut job is going to tell what good and evil are. Not with that kind of body count.

I respect myself to much to believe in that which makes zero sense.

You do what you want, psycho-heretic.

michellemalkingmail.com

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Jul 28, 2019, 5:40:27 AM7/28/19
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He admitted it. A first timer! I accept his apology, even knowing that he
won't accept that I did.

Street

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Jul 28, 2019, 6:09:25 AM7/28/19
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The Bible is filled with lies.

Robert Carnegie

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Jul 28, 2019, 7:58:51 AM7/28/19
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Well said. But you might have guessed. And you might
consider laying off the second-hand anti-atheist diatribes,
as well. And the anti "being inquisitive about
non-consenting sexual acts by supposedly celibate
Roman Catholic pastors" diatribes.

The latter is counter productive because I daresay most
of us only think about non-consenting sexual acts by
supposedly celibate Roman Catholic pastors when the
subject is brought up by you.

John Locke

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Jul 28, 2019, 10:39:24 AM7/28/19
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:47:43 +1000, Michael Christ
<jesusisth...@hotmail.con> wrote:

>On 28/07/2019 1:29 pm, John Locke wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:24:03 +1000, Michael Christ
>> <jesusisth...@hotmail.con> wrote:
>>
>>> On 28/07/2019 8:22 am, Cloud Hobbit wrote:
>>>> Nazi dickhead said:
>>>>
>>>>> posted an article a few days ago under the subject "Jewish Holocaust
>>>> or German Holocaust". I should have read the article better than I
>>>> did. Had I done so, I never would have posted it in the first place.
>>>> It was indeed highly anti-Semitic. I extend an apology to anyone who
>>>> may have felt offended, and promise not to post such a diatribe in the
>>>> future.
>>>>
>>>> You didn't read it all.
>>>> The antisemitism was obvious.
>>>>
>>>> You pulled a Tandy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yet another perfect sinner with self as God.
>>>
>> ...sin is a mater of twisted religious perspective. And "God", being
>> humanly fabricated, means that Cloud is most certainly superior
>> to your deity.
>
>Yet, you are both sinners and worship yourselves and you know it.
>
..oh hell yes !! ..I'm a natural product of billions of year of
evolution and thus I give praise to myself...I DO NOT attribute my
existence to some fucking, undeserving, imaginary god. I attribute my
life to mother nature. Priase be to me and nature !

>Shame about that.
>
..no, shame on you for your disrespect of nature.

tesla sTinker

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Jul 28, 2019, 3:38:42 PM7/28/19
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On 7/27/2019 1:19 PM, First Among Castrators Of Jews scribbled:
What your descripting is not a jew. There is a limit in the Bible, and
usary is a mortal sin. So, no, they cannot charge usary on money they
loan. And since that is the truth of the sin of usary, the ones doing
it, are in sins. They would not be real Jews. pagans., And we already
know and have known all through history, that these kinds, lie, and tell
lies. The apology would only count in the eyes of the valid with God.
This man is not grouping , it extends to true of a jew only. And
they, the real jews, would not ask usary on money loaned.

tesla sTinker

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Jul 28, 2019, 3:47:12 PM7/28/19
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On 7/27/2019 8:29 PM, John Locke scribbled:
Carlin is always a fibber. God hates sinners.
He loves those that do not sin. And the sicko here in his statement,
claims there is no invisible man, when its true, that His Disciple,
Christ, put his finger in his side, then pulled it back out. Yes, that
Body of Christ, was very invisible, same as the levels of Heaven. Thats
why, you cannot see anything on the other side of a black hole in outer
space, in the nebula. Because, it is an entrance to another level of the
Heavens. Why don't you try reading the Scripture Carlin and looking
with better eyes.

Kevrob

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Jul 28, 2019, 3:53:33 PM7/28/19
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On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 3:47:12 PM UTC-4, tesla sTinker wrote:

> Why don't you try reading the Scripture Carlin and looking
> with better eyes.

Maybe because George has been dead these 11 years?

There is no more "George Carlin."

John Locke

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Jul 28, 2019, 4:21:39 PM7/28/19
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...George was a brilliant, imaginative comedian who made a lot of
people laugh. Your alleged god, on the other hand, is a fumbling,
bumbling psychotic with hordes of gullible followers who are afraid to
crack a smile out of fear of damnation. I'll stick with George, thank
you.

Michael Christ

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Jul 28, 2019, 4:54:01 PM7/28/19
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In your obvious perfection and all knowing, your ideals are your own and
you will have to face them and what they are truly worth. It's your
life to do what you want but I am not made by what you think, Cloud
Magnificence.






Michael Christ

Michael Christ

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Jul 28, 2019, 5:30:39 PM7/28/19
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On 29/07/2019 12:39 am, John Locke wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:47:43 +1000, Michael Christ
> <jesusisth...@hotmail.con> wrote:
>
>> On 28/07/2019 1:29 pm, John Locke wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:24:03 +1000, Michael Christ
>>> <jesusisth...@hotmail.con> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 28/07/2019 8:22 am, Cloud Hobbit wrote:
>>>>> Nazi dickhead said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> posted an article a few days ago under the subject "Jewish Holocaust
>>>>> or German Holocaust". I should have read the article better than I
>>>>> did. Had I done so, I never would have posted it in the first place.
>>>>> It was indeed highly anti-Semitic. I extend an apology to anyone who
>>>>> may have felt offended, and promise not to post such a diatribe in the
>>>>> future.
>>>>>
>>>>> You didn't read it all.
>>>>> The antisemitism was obvious.
>>>>>
>>>>> You pulled a Tandy.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yet another perfect sinner with self as God.
>>>>
>>> ...sin is a mater of twisted religious perspective. And "God", being
>>> humanly fabricated, means that Cloud is most certainly superior
>>> to your deity.
>>
>> Yet, you are both sinners and worship yourselves and you know it.

The John Locke spake:
> ..oh hell yes !! ..I'm a natural product of billions of year of
> evolution and thus I give praise to myself...I DO NOT attribute my
> existence to some fucking, undeserving, imaginary god. I attribute my
> life to mother nature. Priase be to me and nature !

Ahhh, sin and worshiping yourself didn't evolve, it has always remained
as it is, what it is. Unless you are saying it was 0.000000000000000001
% or so and sin and self-worship worked its way up?? :-).

You see, you people don't even think, you just talk and wank and listen
and watch yourselves.





Michael Christ

Viktor Tandofsky

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Jul 28, 2019, 6:08:29 PM7/28/19
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Carlin said silly things because he didn't want to be taken seriously, but you take him seriously anyway, fool.

Carlin's claim about the 10 commandments is not even true. 2 of them do not prohibit anything.

Honor thy Father and thy Mother
Observe the Sabbath

Cloud Hobbit

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Jul 28, 2019, 6:21:32 PM7/28/19
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MXReligiowanker said:

>In your obvious perfection and all knowing, your ideals are your own and
you will have to face them and what they are truly worth. It's your
life to do what you want but I am not made by what you think, Cloud
Magnificence.

Thanks. I have never even implied that you were made by what I think. The whole idea is nuts.
If I had built you, you wouldn't be such an ass.

I accept that I and only I am responsible for my actions.
I don't care how others feel about it.

Remember, we're all in this alone.

Kevrob

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Jul 28, 2019, 7:04:09 PM7/28/19
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On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 6:08:29 PM UTC-4, Viktor Tandofsky wrote:

> Honor thy Father and thy Mother
> Observe the Sabbath

The "thou shalt nots" are in the footnotes.

[quote]

Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15) (CCN44).
Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17) (CCN46).

[/quote] From a list of the "631 commandments."

http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm

Do you want to go into what is forbidden on the Sabbath?

http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/208,122/What-are-the-39-melachot.html

I hope you didn't do any hackling yesterday. :)

Michael Christ

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Jul 28, 2019, 7:11:27 PM7/28/19
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On 29/07/2019 8:21 am, Cloud Hobbit wrote:
> MXReligiowanker said:
>
>> In your obvious perfection and all knowing, your ideals are your own and
> you will have to face them and what they are truly worth. It's your
> life to do what you want but I am not made by what you think, Cloud
> Magnificence.

Cloud liar wrote:
> Thanks. I have never even implied that you were made by what I think. The whole idea is nuts.
> If I had built you, you wouldn't be such an ass.
>

You see, you can't even take one step sinner without sinning/lying. You
just implied I am made of what you think.

Cloud Insanity can't even get pass his last few words and he's going to
get by the source of all truth???!!!

Insane.





Michael Christ

Cloud Hobbit

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Jul 28, 2019, 7:36:09 PM7/28/19
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MXReligiowanker said:

>You see, you can't even take one step sinner without sinning/lying. You
just implied I am made of what you think.

Where?

>Cloud Insanity can't even get pass his last few words and he's going to
get by the source of all truth???!!!

The FSM and I agree on most things, but I never saw anything from Him that was as nonsensical as the bible or the crap you believe.

FSM never lies.

You do.

Heretic.

Bob

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Jul 28, 2019, 7:40:00 PM7/28/19
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Watch the Clown as he avoids answering my simple question:

> "And yet you can't find one lie told by him or any other atheist here."

How much would you be willing to bet that statement of yours is true?



Mitchell Holman

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Jul 28, 2019, 9:59:15 PM7/28/19
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Viktor Tandofsky <vtand...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:f6d6a84c-27b0-4492...@googlegroups.com:
....is a prohibition on working on the Sabbath.

A commandment so strong that god himself orders
the death penalty for violating it.



Viktor Tandofsky

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Jul 28, 2019, 10:13:18 PM7/28/19
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On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 4:04:09 PM UTC-7, Kevrob wrote:
> On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 6:08:29 PM UTC-4, Viktor Tandofsky wrote:
>
> > Honor thy Father and thy Mother
> > Observe the Sabbath
>
> The "thou shalt nots" are in the footnotes.
>
> [quote]
>
> Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15) (CCN44).
> Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17) (CCN46).
>
> [/quote] From a list of the "631 commandments."
>
Those are only for Jews. They do not apply to Christians, Moslems or Hindus.,

hleopold

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Jul 29, 2019, 1:44:49 AM7/29/19
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On Jul 28, 2019, Mitchell Holman wrote
(in article<XnsAA9AD3BC558...@216.166.97.131>):
Gee, how much human history has Artie/Joe misunderstood by not realizing that
the use of humor has been at least as effective at changing things in society
as revolution?

Exposure of wrongs and ills in society is extremely important, but much of
the effective work was done by humorists showing just how stupid those in the
wrong were. Will Rogers anyone?

> > Carlin's claim about the 10 commandments is not even true. 2 of them
> > do not prohibit anything.
> >
> > Honor thy Father and thy Mother
> > Observe the Sabbath
>
> ....is a prohibition on working on the Sabbath.
>
> A commandment so strong that god himself orders
> the death penalty for violating it.

--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness (remove gene to email)

“I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one.“ -
Vintagewheels

Michael Christ

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Jul 29, 2019, 1:57:11 AM7/29/19
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On 29/07/2019 9:36 am, Cloud Hobbit wrote:
> MXReligiowanker said:
>
>> You see, you can't even take one step sinner without sinning/lying. You
> just implied I am made of what you think.

Cloud liar wrote:
> Where?

Well, you snipped it fuckwit in order to try and bury it! :-).






Michael Christ

michellemalkingmail.com

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Jul 29, 2019, 6:15:06 AM7/29/19
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On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 3:53:33 PM UTC-4, Kevrob wrote:
> On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 3:47:12 PM UTC-4, tesla sTinker wrote:
>
> > Why don't you try reading the Scripture Carlin and looking
> > with better eyes.
>
> Maybe because George has been dead these 11 years?
>
> There is no more "George Carlin."
>
Has it been 11 years already? I really miss him, his humor, his
comedy specials. His hippy-dippy weatherman and sports scores
reporter always made me laugh. He started out doing silly but
funny stuff, then his brilliance exploded for the world to
see/hear and enjoy - especially his religious humor. I plan
to get the entire set of his stuff as soon as I can.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=George+Carlin+YouTube+Religion&&view=detail&mid=FFE91FCB3783F240EFA4FFE91FCB3783F240EFA4&&FORM=VRDGAR

Viktor Tandofsky

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Jul 30, 2019, 7:54:55 PM7/30/19
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Really? Does anyone honest and intelligent agree with you?


>
> Exposure of wrongs and ills in society is extremely important, but much of
> the effective work was done by humorists showing just how stupid those in the
> wrong were. Will Rogers anyone?



Show us evidence that Will Rogers changed anything.

Kevrob

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Jul 30, 2019, 8:36:30 PM7/30/19
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On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 7:54:55 PM UTC-4, Viktor Tandofsky wrote:

> Show us evidence that Will Rogers changed anything.

How about Thomas Nast* v Boss Tweed?

https://blog.mcny.org/2013/09/24/thomas-nast-takes-down-tammany-a-cartoonists-crusade-against-a-political-boss/

* for all that he engaged in several common bigotries of
his age.

https://thomasnastcartoons.com/irish-catholic-cartoons/irish-stereotype/

Viktor Tandofsky

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Jul 30, 2019, 9:26:42 PM7/30/19
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Nast was not a comedian. The issue is comedy.

Kevrob

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Jul 30, 2019, 11:00:52 PM7/30/19
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Harry L referred to "humor" and "humorists."

Do you really consider editorial cartoonists outside the
boundary defining "humorists?"

As for Rogers:

[quote]

But the cowboy comic with the rope tricks was no mere wisecracking rube,
Richard D. White Jr. writes in "Will Rogers: A Political Life." "History
has done a disservice to Will Rogers," White says. "A closer look at whom
he met, where he traveled and the subjects of his writings and speeches
reveals not so much a comedian but a true political insider with the power
to shape public opinion and ultimately influence public policy." And that
closer look is what he gives us in this new biography.

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Molly Ivins owe a debt to Rogers, as does
Rush Limbaugh when he’s actually funny and not just mean. But in his day,
Rogers was bigger than all of them. Between his emergence as a performer and
his death in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935, Rogers, a 10th-grade dropout,
wrote thousands of closely read newspaper columns and articles, and six
books. He starred in dozens of radio broadcasts and 71 movies, and was
courted by presidents and legislators.

[/quote] Will Rogers, Populist Cowboy (book review)
By JOHN SCHWARTZMARCH 25, 2011, more @

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/books/review/book-review-will-rogers-a-political-life-by-richard-d-white-jr.html

No influence, at all, at all.

[/sarc]

Viktor Tandofsky

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The original subject was George Carlin, who Locke described as a "comedian."
Show us his positive influence.

Kevrob

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Jul 30, 2019, 11:54:40 PM7/30/19
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You'll get a hernia moving goalposts like that.

Viktor Tandofsky

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I saw nothing funny about Nast's cartoons.

michellemalkingmail.com

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Jul 31, 2019, 2:20:14 AM7/31/19
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On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 7:54:55 PM UTC-4, Viktor Tandofsky wrote:
Of course, ArtieJoe. It's you no one agrees with.
>
>
> >
> > Exposure of wrongs and ills in society is extremely important, but much of
> > the effective work was done by humorists showing just how stupid those in the wrong were. Will Rogers anyone?
>
>
>
> Show us evidence that Will Rogers changed anything.

You've never changed anything.



michellemalkingmail.com

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On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 8:36:30 PM UTC-4, Kevrob wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 7:54:55 PM UTC-4, Viktor Tandofsky wrote:
>
> > Show us evidence that Will Rogers changed anything.
>
> How about Thomas Nast* v Boss Tweed?

Isn't that little before the alte cocker's time?

michellemalkingmail.com

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So what? A lot of his political cartoons were funny - depending on
which political party you belonged to. He was a cartoonist who made
people laugh over politics and other topics just as Carlin made
people laugh over politics and other topics.

michellemalkingmail.com

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We already know that you have no sense of humor and learned no history in school. You may have gone to history classes, but you obviously slept
through them.



Cloud Hobbit

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Jul 31, 2019, 2:58:39 AM7/31/19
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Duckman said:

>I saw nothing funny about Nast's cartoons.

They don't look like they're meant to make you laugh, but to inform and to make you think.

A cartoon can depict a whole range of emotion, while educating.

Don Martin

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On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT), "michellemalkingmail.com"
<malkinm...@gmail.com> wrote to Farty-Jo:

>> Show us evidence that Will Rogers changed anything.
>
>You've never changed anything.

Be fair--his presence has made alt.atheism less pleasant. That is a
change, just as a fart in an elevator is.

--
aa #2278 Never mind "proof." Where is your evidence?
BAAWA Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief Heckler
Fidei defensor (Hon. Antipodean)
Je pense, donc je suis Charlie.

Kevrob

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I'm sure many WASPs got a chuckle out of them.

Boss Tweed didn't care for the ridicule. He famously said:

"I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't
know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed

See also:

[quote]

Across the pond, an American cartoonist held even greater sway. Almost
single-handedly, Thomas Nast took down William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, the
corrupt head of Tammany Hall in New York. Nast’s caricatures were so fierce
and funny [/quote]

Please note: people thought thye were funny!

[quote continues...]

that the public turned against the Boss, and he was forced from office.
He fled to Europe to escape prosecution for theft, but officials identified
the fugitive from a Nast cartoon. Tweed’s critique of his tormentor: “I don’t
care so much what the papers write—my constituents can’t read . . . it’s them
damn pictures.” Yet for all of Nast’s artistic achievements—he invented the
GOP elephant, the Democratic donkey, and the popular image of Santa Claus —
his cartoons had a dark side. Nast was violently anti-Catholic (one of his
drawings shows bishops turning into crocodiles as they invade American shores),
and he invariably portrayed Irish immigrants as unwashed, drunken louts.


....

Nothing is as effective as ridicule for driving barbarians from the
temple of Western civilization.

[/quote] "Them Damn Pictures: Cartoonists provide the only
effective answer to the barbarity in Paris.

Stefan Kanfer, January 11, 2015

https://www.city-journal.org/html/them-damn-pictures-11494.html

Modern readers may miss the humor, but Nast and Tweed's contemporaries'
didn't.

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On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 8:59:34 AM UTC-4, Don Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT), "michellemalkingmail.com"
> <malkinm...@gmail.com> wrote to Farty-Jo:
>
> >> Show us evidence that Will Rogers changed anything.
> >
> >You've never changed anything.
>
> Be fair--his presence has made alt.atheism less pleasant. That is a
> change, just as a fart in an elevator is.
>
Point taken.
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