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Message 3 of 29 (652332)
02-13-2012 12:30 PM

I favor censorship.
Mark Twain writes:
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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane...
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
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We are all erring creatures, and mainly idiots, but God made us so and it is dangerous to criticise.
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His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
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[He] was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
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...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him.
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Those that handle language well and precisely must be handicapped in order that those who are incapable of either can feel good about themselves.
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Edited by jar, : absooolutely appalin stupid spallin
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Message 12 of 29 (652412)
02-13-2012 4:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Admin
02-13-2012 3:48 PM

Yet you cannot find a single instance when I have ever called a member ignorant or stupid or even an idiot.
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I try very hard to attack the idea and topic, not the person.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Message 15 of 29 (652419)
02-13-2012 5:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 8 by Phat
02-13-2012 4:13 PM

Re: Censoring Insensibility
Ah, so in the post to which you are replying you might notice I used none of those words.
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Are you perhaps saying that I have not explained over and over why an idea might fall into such categories?
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If someone persists in posting material that falls into those categories should it not be pointed out?
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Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the level of censorship at EvC and I can expand my vocabulary to work around the restrictions, but that would simply make more work for Percy and I do not want to cause him even more problems.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be--a Christian.
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One can deliver a satire with telling force through the insidious medium of a travesty, if he is careful not to overwhelm the satire with the extraneous interest of the travesty.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Message 19 of 29 (652458)
02-13-2012 7:32 PM 		Reply to: Message 18 by Buzsaw
02-13-2012 7:28 PM

Re: Personal Attacks
That is a valid question Buz, certainly not attacking you.
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Have you ever actually read the Bible Buz?
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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