"Joseph" <nonexistent@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Malachias Invictus" <capt_malachias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Lizard" <lizard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On 10 Sep 2006 09:22:03 -0700, "Bill Wayne" <HWayne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrotC:DRIVE_E
>>>
>>>>I never quite understood this. Who in their right minds would get
their
>>>>views on life from a *movie*?
>>>
>>> Who in their right minds would get their views on life from a 4000
>>> year old book?
>>
>> Excellent retort, sir.
>
> Not really
Yes, really.
> but I expect such mediocrity from you, Invictus.
Strange, but last time I checked it was Lizard who made the clever retort.
> Neither extreme age nor being in a book disqualifies excellence in
> philosophy,
No ****, moron. Neither modernity nor being in a movie disqualifies it
either. I guess you missed the point. Again.
> even if it comes from a religious text.
I never asserted otherwise, fool.
> One can, after all, take many insights about human life and culture
> from a great work of literature like the Bible
Our definitions of "great work of literature" differ greatly, then. As
literature, the Christian Bible is crap. I have seen collections of short
stories written by different authors that had more consistency.
--
^v^v^Malachias Invictus^v^v^
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the Master of my fate:
I am the Captain of my soul.
from _Invictus_, by William Ernest Henley
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