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Iggo

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20. Those are the fun ones.

Reply to gcomeau (Reply #18)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 06:53 PM

Nov 2015

The ones who want you to have an open mind, but are afraid to have one themselves.

One of our regulars told me s/he couldn't even imagine (or admit to imagining, I imagine) for the sake of argument that his/her deity did not exist.

I felt bad.

Kind of.

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Way, way, way to the left. (n/t) Iggo Nov 2015 #19