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Irrational quotes or concepts....got any goodies?

"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism. We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."

(Antisocial Personality Disorder - Part Two) :stickpoke

This is the Army - hurry up and wait!

Yesterday, Police Officer: "You gotta wear your seat belt, even if you forget."

'You have to suffer to be beautiful' .
Always hated that one . My mother used to say it when she was dragging a comb through my hair .

'Lions drink water'
Well , yes they do , but I am not a lion .

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Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 322346)

lj has a special cock

truncated, and out of context, but i'll take what i can get.

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Originally Posted by Buddug (Post 250244)

'You have to suffer to be beautiful' .
Always hated that one . My mother used to say it when she was dragging a comb through my hair .

My grandmother is also a fan of that one -- it's originally a French proverb meaning that only those who have known suffering and life experience can be truly beautiful rather than just "pretty" (generally French culture has a greater appreciation for older women than American culture does). As in, Katie Holmes is pretty, but Isabella Rossellini is beautiful. However, it is generally used here to promote painful "beauty" procedures.

It's like using "The Road Less Travelled" to sell cars.

Regarding medicine:

"If it tastes good, it's not working" If it tastes bad, I ain't taking it!

"Starve a cold; feed a fever". How is vomiting the food you make me eat going to help?

Wow, Hime - that has never made sense to me before. Now it's like suddenly seeing the other side of an optical illusion, simple but effective :)

One of my illogical concepts is Kill or Cure. Which I use to justify something which doesn't make sense but I want it, like a whiny teenager. For example having a McDonalds lunch today when I was up from 4 this morning with a dodgy stomach... Hey, I'm not dead so I assume it cured me :)

Thank you for failing to follow directions and not respond to me. I can tell you anything I want, including don't respond to me. Now follow directions and ignore me before I send a big wave down there to wash you away

Here's a good one posted by TheMercenary here

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs (Post 328030)

Regarding medicine:

"If it tastes good, it's not working" If it tastes bad, I ain't taking it!

"Starve a cold; feed a fever". How is vomiting the food you make me eat going to help?

It's a hell of a lot better than dry heaves. Besides, you may get some of the liquid through before you vomit. That way you get that Back Door Trots and exercise makes you healthy.

Illogical because of how long ago it was said, by whom, and the state of things now.

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“Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of the faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men…. Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by these who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.”

(Saint Augustine, “De Genesi ad Litteram” On the Literal Meaning of Genesis, pp. 42-43)

Read this a couple of days ago:
"AH!" he said nodding knowingly.. not knowing what he was nodding knowingly about.

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage (Post 330385)

Illogical because of how long ago it was said, by whom, and the state of things now.

Explain if you will. Because this:

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"Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by these who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."

seems like an accurate statement to me. Maybe just because I'm a minority among Christians who don't take a completely literal interpretation of Genesis, etc.