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    j2k4's Avatar en(un)lightened
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    Quote Originally Posted by Biggles View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by j2k4 View Post
    Think Edmund Burke.
    I would agree with that kev - but should we be kind and quote the famous line or should we let them use the power of Google for something more fruitful than normal

    Fruitful, indeed - like, melons, or something.
    "Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."

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    Oranges are not the only fruit


    *I vaguely recall us doing that obscure reference before*
    Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum


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    In WWII, in holland they called the passives - www'rs
    which means: Eerst Weten Wei Wint
    (first find out who wins)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Biggles View Post
    Oranges are not the only fruit


    *I vaguely recall us doing that obscure reference before*
    It was me, I think.

    I also tied it, albeit tenuously( and heartlessly, in retrospect), to the actress who played Marmalade Atkins- Charlotte Coleman, who had recently died. She was the main protagonist in yon Jeanette Winterson novel/BBC2 play.

    RIP.



    Such a beauty.
    Last edited by chalice; 12-09-2007 at 04:45 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalice View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Biggles View Post
    Oranges are not the only fruit


    *I vaguely recall us doing that obscure reference before*
    It was me, I think.

    I also tied it, albeit tenuously( and heartlessly, in retrospect), to the actress who played Marmalade Atkins- Charlotte Coleman, who had recently died. She was the main protogonist in yon Jeanette Winterson novel/BBC2 play.

    RIP.





    Such a beauty.
    That is sad I never realised she had died - only 33 and of asthma too. Poor woman. RIP

    She was fantastic in Oranges - it was both funny and beautifully written and played. Geraldine McEwan was magnificent as the religious fruitcake mother.
    Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum


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    Wurzil Gummidge will never be the same... I didnt know she was dead.

    RIP

    An It Harm None, Do What You Will

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    Quote Originally Posted by 100% View Post
    yesterday in a cab
    The Pakistani driver, told that his 2 year old daughter got an ear infection 3 months ago, she can no longer hear. hence her speaking capabilities have worsened to the extent of no talking.
    The doctor has not given them the papers to go to hospital so she can be treated. Three times in a row.

    immoral passivity?
    sounds like criminal negligence to me.

    I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. (Terry Prattchet)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ænima View Post
    Cheeseman1208, for the sake of this discussion, we must assume that there is an objective and rational system of morality with which we use as an axiom, or group of axioms to deduce whether some action, or inaction is immoral.

    How do you define morality?
    There is. Both sides make use of their.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ænima View Post
    Does it exist?
    Yes.

    Next!

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