Satanic Authorship

[_Coggins7]

Any man who is a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide (especially the superbly written original) is a friend of mine. And if you can actually quote Grunthos the Flatulent verbatim, you've just made into the Coggins hall of fame (right alongside King Bruno The Questionable and the Rat Bat Spider Crab). Great minds think alike.

[_Mephitus]

You mean his poem "ode to a small piece of green putty i found under my arm one summer morn'"? or "my favorite bathtime gurgles"?

EDIT: oops, alraedy mentioned. I missed that

[_Coggins7]

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t must be very lonely down there in that bunker you've built up in your mind. Have you noticed that, in one way or another, you can just about say that everyone in the entire world who doesn't believe exactly like you do believes in Satan-authored ideologies? So, you live in a world where the Christian bogeyman named SATAN is everywhere you look, everyone you see on TV, every one of your neighbors who is just a little bit different than you, etc. That has got to suck.

I have to tell you, Coggins, that it's extremely liberating to realize that this is all bullcrap, and that I'm actually a part of this world, a colleague if you will of every other human being on the planet. I'm one of them, just another schmoe trying to get through life the best way I can. I, for one, really love this realization. I love not being superior to my neighbors anymore because I'm endowed with The Truth(tm) from God and they're not.

It may take years for you to figure this out, man, if it ever happens at all, but every single one of the people involved in any of the things you mentioned in the OP is just another human being, like yourself, doing the best they know how with the cards they were dealt, just getting through life the best way they can figure out. And you know what? We're not all the same. And I can handle that.

Nice attempt at legitimizing your empty, relativistic, flaccid view of life Sethbag, but its neither compelling nor interesting (except in a psychological sense). The Book of Mormon predicts such a philosophy within the Gentile cultures of the Latter Days. "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." We're all just a bunch of smucks trying to slog through the rat race after having slogged through the primal soup billions of years before, and nothing, nothing really matters all that much.

You may have that philosophy of life, as well as your mischaracterization of mine.

[Guest]

Any man who is a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide (especially the superbly written original) is a friend of mine. And if you can actually quote Grunthos the Flatulent verbatim, you've just made into the Coggins hall of fame (right alongside King Bruno The Questionable and the Rat Bat Spider Crab). Great minds think alike.

I love the original work and read it avidly. The BBC dramatized version is the greatest. The new movie was not so good. While I know many of the quotes, I don't know them exactly enough and I must admit I had to look them up so I could paste them here.

"...like a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick."

"I wonder if it will be friends with me?"

"How many stairs must a man walk down? 42!"

"It committed suicide".

LOL!

[_Coggins7]

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5. The Book of Mormon
66. The Doctrine and Covenants
67. The Pearl of Great Price

Marx didn't

1) Engage in divination, opening himself to potential demonic influence
2) Get visited by supernatural beings, who misled him into believing (among other things) that their veracity could be verified by means of a handshake
3) Produce the Communist Manifesto at a rapid pace by means of a common magical implement
4) Threaten his wife via destruction via "revelation" for fear that a supernatural being with a flaming sword would kill him.

Therefore, while he was undoubtedly misguided, I think Satanic authorship of the aforementioned works of Mormon scripture is on much firmer footing.

While, apparently, he was never visited by dinvne beings (and your competence to make a judgment of just how the legitimacy of such beings could be authenticated, or whether their are such beings, is exactly what?), or produce the Manifesto at a rapid pace (actually, he didn't produce too much of it at all, most of it is Engel's work), or threaten his wife with divine destruction, his influence has directly and indirectly led to the death of over one hundred million people in the 20th century and the scarring and destruction of the lives of countless others.

[_Coggins7]

Everything I say bracketed with () is my own...

What Coggins says (and what he really means).

[SNIP!]

Well, almost made it to thirty-nine, but my b***s***ometer died...

Are you seriously that f****** retarded, Coggins? I mean that srriously. If you are retarded/learning disabled, let me know so I can start taking it easy on you, ya biggoted f****** douchbag.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a typical liberal. This is the base of the Democratic Party. This is the typical participant at one of those "peace" rallies you see on CSPAN off and on the Capitol lawn. This is the MoveOn.org, Demorcat.com, Democratic Underground, Daily Kos, Air America Radio, MTV, NPR, Pacifica Radio, Link TV, Indymedia Left in all its anti-intellectual, infantile, adolescent, cerebellum addled glory.

Behold the Man!

[_bcspace]

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a typical liberal.

I see nothing wrong with being liberal in the strict dictionary sense (generous). However, what you have described is a political liberal (generous with that which belongs to others such as money, freedom, and lives), a grievous abomination and contrary in every way to what it means to be LDS.

[_CaliforniaKid]

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5. The Book of Mormon
66. The Doctrine and Covenants
67. The Pearl of Great Price

Marx didn't

1) Engage in divination, opening himself to potential demonic influence
2) Get visited by supernatural beings, who misled him into believing (among other things) that their veracity could be verified by means of a handshake
3) Produce the Communist Manifesto at a rapid pace by means of a common magical implement
4) Threaten his wife via destruction via "revelation" for fear that a supernatural being with a flaming sword would kill him.

Therefore, while he was undoubtedly misguided, I think Satanic authorship of the aforementioned works of Mormon scripture is on much firmer footing.

While, apparently, he was never visited by dinvne beings (and your competence to make a judgment of just how the legitimacy of such beings could be authenticated, or whether their are such beings, is exactly what?), or produce the Manifesto at a rapid pace (actually, he didn't produce too much of it at all, most of it is Engel's work), or threaten his wife with divine destruction, his influence has directly and indirectly led to the death of over one hundred million people in the 20th century and the scarring and destruction of the lives of countless others.

If that's the criterion, then I guess we better add the Bible and the Qu'ran to the list. Not to mention the original act of the creation of the world. Look how many deaths that's led to.

[_Coggins7]

see nothing wrong with being liberal in the strict dictionary sense (generous). However, what you have described is a political liberal (generous with that which belongs to others such as money, freedom, and lives), a grievous abomination and contrary in every way to what it means to be LDS.

Well, I consider myself a Classical Liberal, and I hope, I think, I'm also liberal in the sense of being generous. the political connotation of which I speak is a misnomer, and should more properly be called "Leftist", which indicates both a political orientation as well as a set of attitudes and a general worldview that, I have to agree with you, is inconsistent with the Restored Gospel.

The intellectual patrimony of the Left is very different from that of the Right, both in the philosophical and moral spheres.

[_Mephitus]

This is why im glad im neither a liberal nor conservative. Anarcho-capitalist libertarian FTW!