Comments on: Laughter is the Best Weapon http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/ Expat currently living in Doha, Qatar Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: intlxpatr http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12388 intlxpatr Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:50:04 +0000 http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12388 Chikapappi - Anger can be managed, habeebti. You can do this. I know you have been thinking about it. Chroma - And a quick diffuser in a difficult situation, if it is handled with a light touch! Whoa! Abdulaziz - quotes from <strong>Letters from the Earth</strong>, his most scorchingly cynical book of all! When you read Twain, or at least when I read Twain, I get the feeling I get with many athiest/agnostics - that underneath the cynicism is a believer who has been whalloped a time or two. Many of them have more faith than the more superficial "believers", but they are too afraid to believe. Swair - That one makes me LOL too! ;-) Chikapappi – Anger can be managed, habeebti. You can do this. I know you have been thinking about it.

Chroma – And a quick diffuser in a difficult situation, if it is handled with a light touch!

Whoa! Abdulaziz – quotes from Letters from the Earth, his most scorchingly cynical book of all! When you read Twain, or at least when I read Twain, I get the feeling I get with many athiest/agnostics – that underneath the cynicism is a believer who has been whalloped a time or two. Many of them have more faith than the more superficial “believers”, but they are too afraid to believe.

Swair – That one makes me LOL too! ;-)

]]> By: Swair http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12363 Swair Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:30:30 +0000 http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12363 I love Mark Twain! he once said "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" :p so witty! I love Mark Twain! he once said “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt” :p

so witty!

]]> By: Abdulaziz http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12360 Abdulaziz Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:19:37 +0000 http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12360 Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist (1835-1910). One of the best writers and thinkers America has offered. i do like to read his words,, you posted some very nice quotes.. I would like to add some qoutes of his, that involve his religous beliefs : "Faith is believing something you know ain’t true." "If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian." "It (the Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies." "A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." "Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light … by contrast." "I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force." "If there is a God, he is a malign thug." "'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true." "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." "Man is a marvelous curiosity . . . he thinks he is the Creator's pet . . . he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." [Letters from the Earth] Mr. Clemens was once asked whether he feared death. He said that he did not, in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. From.... http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm Samuel Clemens “Mark Twain”, American author and humorist (1835-1910).
One of the best writers and thinkers America has offered. i do like to read his words,, you posted some very nice quotes.. I would like to add some qoutes of his, that involve his religous beliefs :

“Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.”

“If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.”

“It (the Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.”

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”

“Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness… It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light … by contrast.”

“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious — unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.”

“If there is a God, he is a malign thug.”

“‘In God We Trust.’ I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true.”

“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”

“Man is a marvelous curiosity . . . he thinks he is the Creator’s pet . . . he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn’t it a quaint idea.” [Letters from the Earth]

Mr. Clemens was once asked whether he feared death. He said that he did not, in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

From….

http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm

]]> By: Chroma-Trauma http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12359 Chroma-Trauma Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:13:36 +0000 http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12359 I Agree with you.. What a cheap effective weapon I Agree with you.. What a cheap effective weapon

]]> By: chikapappi http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12358 chikapappi Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:49:54 +0000 http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/laughter-is-the-best-weapon/#comment-12358 "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured" This is mine :) “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured” This is mine :)

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