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  1. Samuel Block Support
    Samuel Block
    @SamuelBlock

    Well played. 🤪

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  2. Percival Thatcher
    Percival
    @Percival

    The ultimate absurdity is to run their nonsense through the Mill of Logic in front of them and let them see the intellectual wreckage that results. Then smile and say “You mean like that?”

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  3. Arahant Member
    Arahant
    @Arahant

    Percival (View Comment):

    The ultimate absurdity is to run their nonsense through the Mill of Logic in front of them and let them see the intellectual wreckage that results. Then smile and say “You mean like that?”

    Yep, and for that, you have to be serious.

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  4. Gary McVey Contributor
    Gary McVey
    @GaryMcVey

    I love Weatherford’s books, but it’s rare to find a quote like this one. 

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  5. Arahant Member
    Arahant
    @Arahant

    Gary McVey (View Comment):

    I love Weatherford’s books, but it’s rare to find a quote like this one.

    If he’d get off here more often, maybe he would finish the third in the series.

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  6. Samuel Block Support
    Samuel Block
    @SamuelBlock

    Gary McVey (View Comment):

    I love Weatherford’s books, but it’s rare to find a quote like this one.

    Hey, Gary, or anybody else who knows, how you link things like that… I’ve tried, but I’m an Irishman, we don’t trust things like computers.

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  7. Gary McVey Contributor
    Gary McVey
    @GaryMcVey

    Samuel Block (View Comment):

    Gary McVey (View Comment):

    I love Weatherford’s books, but it’s rare to find a quote like this one.

    Hey, Gary, or anybody else who knows, how you link things like that… I’ve tried, but I’m an Irishman, we don’t trust things like computers.

    Nothin’ to it. Highlight the link you’re guiding us to, do a CTRL-C, come on back to Ricochet and make a comment. Highlight the words that trigger the link, hit the “chain link” symbol on top of this comment box, and do a CTRL-V to copy the URL into it. Voila. 

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  8. Samuel Block Support
    Samuel Block
    @SamuelBlock

    Gary McVey (View Comment):

    Samuel Block (View Comment):

    Gary McVey (View Comment):

    I love Weatherford’s books, but it’s rare to find a quote like this one.

    Hey, Gary, or anybody else who knows, how you link things like that… I’ve tried, but I’m an Irishman, we don’t trust things like computers.

    Nothin’ to it. Highlight the link you’re guiding us to, do a CTRL-C, come on back to Ricochet and make a comment. Highlight the words that trigger the link, hit the “chain link” symbol on top of this comment box, and do a CTRL-V to copy the URL into it. Voila.

    Thank you!

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  9. OldDanRhody Member
    OldDanRhody
    @OldDanRhody

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    The ultimate absurdity is to run their nonsense through the Mill of Logic in front of them and let them see the intellectual wreckage that results. Then smile and say “You mean like that?”

    Yep, and for that, you have to be serious.

    Surely you can’t be serious!

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  10. Vectorman Inactive
    Vectorman
    @Vectorman

    When Charles Weatherford talks, people listen.


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  11. Saint Augustine Member
    Saint Augustine
    @SaintAugustine

    Arahant:

    In an absurd world, seriousness is the ultimate absurdity.—Charles L. Weatherford

    As fierce an objection to Sartre as one could ask for. 

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  12. Arahant Member
    Arahant
    @Arahant

    OldDanRhody (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    The ultimate absurdity is to run their nonsense through the Mill of Logic in front of them and let them see the intellectual wreckage that results. Then smile and say “You mean like that?”

    Yep, and for that, you have to be serious.

    Surely you can’t be serious!

    I am Sirius, and quit calling me Shirley.

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  13. Yehoshua Ben-Eliyahu Inactive
    Yehoshua Ben-Eliyahu
    @YehoshuaBenEliyahu

    A religious person is someone who takes G-d with the utmost seriousness while not taking himself seriously at all.

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  14. Jeff Hawkins Inactive
    Jeff Hawkins
    @JeffHawkins

    reminds me of the Orwell quote “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

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