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11-23-2008, 05:15 PM | #92 (permalink) |
The Sexual Intellectual
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Why would I need to hide when I'm right
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11-23-2008, 05:17 PM | #93 (permalink) |
Dazed and confuzzled
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A lot of people who were right ended up being lynched by the ignorant masses, just look at the astronomers of old.
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11-23-2008, 05:26 PM | #97 (permalink) |
Fish in the percolator!
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Take the Italian philosopher and proponent of heliocentrism, Giordano Bruno, as an example. The Church took care of him by nailing his tongue to silence him and burning him at the stake.
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