There’s either a sense of humor at work here, a vindictive streak, or divine interference.
Whatever the case, chalk it up as odd, at the very least, that when the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign applied for a telephone number, it was assigned 812-666-4135.
I know some of you will call it bad news, but I hardly think it so. Those who see the number and associate it with Satan are not exactly the target audience. I wish it was deliberate, and I wish I’d thought of it, because here’s an entire newspaper article which turns out to be an ad for the group — complete with telephone number. Now THAT’s Guerrilla Marketing!
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Nice posts Yahweh!
KA said this about RevelationS (Note to Phred, I don’t believe in your stupid sky fairy megalomaniac, and I don’t give a crap if I spell any of it’s blatherings right).
Worst book in the bibble. Ruined so many minds, so many lives.
It also enlightened at least one mind. As I sat listening to the minister prattle on about horses flying out of the sky etc., I realised that god was pretend just like the Creature from the Black Lagoon I’d watched on Chiller Theater the night before. And I was only 5.
Is there a new procedure for blockquotes?
Phreedm : also in the John Adams Building of the library of Congress, you’ll find the following:
“THE WEST AND EAST ENTRANCE DOORS
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The history of the written word is depicted in sculpted figures by Lee Lawrie on the bronze doors at the west (Second Street) and east (Third Street) entrances. The center doors at the west entrance contain six figures, which are repeated on the flanking doors of the east entrance. The figures are:
HERMES, the messenger of the gods
ODIN, the Viking-Germanic god of war and creator of the runic alphabet
OGMA, the Irish god who invented the Gaelic alphabet
ITZAMA, god of the Mayans
QUETZALCOATL, the god of the Aztecs
SEQUOYAH, an American Indian
The two flanking doors of the west entrance depict six other figures who are part of the history of the written word. The figures, repeated on the center door of the east entrance, are:
THOTH, an Egyptian god
TS’ANG CHIEH, the Chinese patron of writing
NABU, an Akkadian god
BRAHMA, the Indian god
CADMUS, the Greek sower of dragon’s teeth
TAHMURATH, a hero of the ancient Persians.”
I surmise from this that our founders(or those who later created museum) recognized that humans worldwide were habitual mythmakers!
Phreedm:In the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress you’ll find:
“The East Mosaic Corridor and Entrance to the Main Reading Room
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Adorning the East Corridor are six lunettes by John White Alexander that depict The Evolution of the Book. The subjects are, at the south end, the Cairn, Oral Tradition, and Egyptian Hieroglyphics; and, at the north end, Picture Writing, the Manuscript Book, and the Printing Press.
In the vault mosaics, at the ends and along the sides, are ten trophies, each with symbols representing one of the arts or sciences. Below each are the surnames of two native-born Americans associated with that art or science. Beginning on the east wall and reading left to right, they are: MATHEMATICS (Peirce and Bowditch), ASTRONOMY (Bond and Rittenhouse), ENGINEERING (Francis and Stevens), NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (Silliman and Cooke), ARCHITECTURE (Latrobe and Walter), MUSIC (Mason and Gottschalk), PAINTING (Stuart and Allston), SCULPTURE (Powers and Crawford), POETRY (Emerson and Holmes), and NATURAL SCIENCE (Say and Dana).
Names of native-born Americans distinguished in Medicine, Law, and Theology are inscribed in the ceiling vault. Beginning at the north end, they are: THEOLOGY (Brooks, Edwards, Mather, Channing, Beecher); LAW (Shaw, Taney, Marshall, Story, Gibson, Pinckney, Kent, Hamilton, Webster, Curtis); and MEDICINE (Cross, Wood, McDowell, Rush, Warren). ”
Gosh, Phreedm, it seem our founders had a LOT more on their plate and on their minds than the narrow stricture with which you seek to bind them.
It occurs to me that they were busy clearing the land, pirating molasses and rum, studying the classics, building volunteer fire departments, trading with the natives, enslaving africans, planting crops, building ships, having sex for recretaion and re-creation,publishing newspapers, gazettes and pamplets, fighting a revolution, and organizing governments. I submit, like many modern American, they occasionally thought of religion and occasionaly paid lip service to such by occasionally attending some religious observation.
Jefferson Madison, Washigton were deists, not modern day brand of xtians.
Thanks , What.
cry4turtles says:
April 26, 2009 at 6:35 am
Is there a new procedure for blockquotes?
What do you mean, cry?
I sense you may be directing this at my long quotes.
Please advise.
Works for me.
phreedumb said:
“Hmmm…as you would say, “do your homework dude”. There is no “s” in Revelation. Of course I do understand you’ve never actually studied the book.”
Response: You want to argue a title given to a book of fairy tails. Okay, I put an “s” where it doesn’t belong in “which version of your bible?”. The catholics call the the book apocalypse!!! But, if you want to talk about the seven headed wild beast, or the four horsemen, or seven seals, don’t think you can debate with me. I’ll destoy you. And when I’m finished with you, Dvan will finish you off, if there’s anything to finish.
I know what you came here looking for Phreedumb, not reward from you god for saving us, but, hoping we can save you.
NeoWolfe