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NeoGreen

(4,033 posts) Tue Dec 11, 2018, 01:17 PM Dec 2018

I'd rather celebrate the Solstice... [View all]

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"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish."
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748).

Or, as Hitchens paraphrased Hume,

"which is more likely, that the whole natural order is suspended or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?"

(Sol Invictus with white wine)

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I'd rather celebrate the Solstice... [View all] NeoGreen Dec 2018 OP

Celebrate it. eom guillaumeb Dec 2018 #1

Nice of you to give him your permission. MineralMan Dec 2018 #2

Support, not permission. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #5

All I have is your words, and you write so few of them. MineralMan Dec 2018 #8

Celebrate. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #10

Jewish minx? wryter2000 Dec 2018 #3

Well said. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #6

Jumped out at me wryter2000 Dec 2018 #13

I haven't watched that video for a while Thyla Dec 2018 #4

I send Solstice cards. LakeArenal Dec 2018 #7

We send cards that suit the recipients. MineralMan Dec 2018 #9

You assume a lot. LakeArenal Dec 2018 #11

Not really. We know the people we send cards to. MineralMan Dec 2018 #12

LOL! Mariana Dec 2018 #15

Exactly what I used to do wryter2000 Dec 2018 #14

I don't see why celebrating the Solstice should offend anyone LakeArenal Dec 2018 #16

Exactly wryter2000 Dec 2018 #17