Quote Digest

[V_Translanka]

I can follow the logic of science.

[Thought]

While interesting, that article confuses Creationism with religion at large. Unfortunately, over the last several decades Creationism has spread to other countries and religions, but one ought not confuse the disease for the patient.

[Romana]

"So it was your plan to kill us all? That's good, that's very good. Because I'd hate to think you'd done something so monumentally stupid by accident!"

'Theosophy? Ha! Surely you mean theophany? Because we're not talking about real gods here, are we? We're talking about the appearance of gods. Your heavenly powers are a little too mechanical for my liking. And, if I may be so bold, Lord Zeus, your demeanor is not very godlike.'

'You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying. Like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive. This is the year 5.5/apple/26 - 5 billion years in your future, and this is the day - hold on... This is the day the Sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world!'

Mickey: I bet you don't even remember my name!
The Doctor: Ricky.
Mickey: It's Mickey!
The Doctor: No, it's Ricky.
Mickey: 'I think I know my own name.'
The Doctor: 'You think you know your own name. How stupid are you?'

Rose: 'My mother's cooking.'
The Doctor: 'Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer.'

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."

[Thought]

The Doctor: I thought you were supposed to be dying.
The Face of Boe: There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.

Rose: Oh, here's trouble. What you been up to?
The Doctor: Oh, this and that. Became the imaginary friend of a future French aristocrat, picked a fight with a clockwork man... Oh, and I met a horse.
Mickey: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
The Doctor: Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

The Doctor: And... Utopia is...?
Professor Yana: Oh, every human knows about Utopia! Where have you been?!
The Doctor: Bit of a hermit.
Professor Yana: A hermit. With... friends?
The Doctor: Hermits United. We meet up every ten years. Swap stories about caves. It's good fun... for a hermit.

[Truthordeal]

Where are you guys quoting this stuff from? It looks awesome.

[Mr Bekkler]

The N'th Doctor is a character in Dr. Who, depending on which season and which person is playing him. They have like a cat's nine lives type thing wherein each successive life they look different. Convenient for a TV show that never gets cancelled.

The writing is quite brilliant, the special effects, not so much, but a charming show, especially if you like british television.

[Truthordeal]

Ah, so should I look for the 1960's version or the 2005 version?

[Mr Bekkler]

that's debatable. the 2005 version is obviously more accessable but the older versions are considered "classic". 

[Romana]

Ah, so should I look for the 1960's version or the 2005 version?

The new series is accessible right off the bat, but it's best with a little prior knowledge of all the staples. Just use the wikia for whatever confuses you.

[Lord J Esq]

It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That's not a weakness. That's life.

[Thought]

Rose: What's the emergency
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognized color for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All those red alerts, all that dancing.

[Lord J Esq]

From the national parks documentary that I've been watching:

I thought I could imagine a better Grand Canyon, did I? Well, cried Reality, take a look at this--and oh boy!--you ain't seen nothing yet. ... I have heard rumors of visitors who were disappointed. The same people will be disappointed at the Day of Judgment. ...

If I were an American I should make my remembrance of (the Grand Canyon) the final test of men, art, and policies. I should ask myself: Is this good enough to exist in the same country as the Canyon? How would I feel about this man, this kind of art, these political measures, if I were near that Rim?

[Mr Bekkler]

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

[Sajainta]

Two from Voltaire::

To hold a pen is to be at war.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbour's, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

[ZeaLitY]

1 Corinthians 14:34-36
    Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Hahaha...I love it when the New Testament (aka, the kinder, gentler testament) proscribes something so blatantly wrong and evil as this. "But, but!! That was a different time, and—" Hah. I'm willing to bet most apologists on this point aren't female. Here's what one says:

1. Bart D. Ehrman in Misquoting Jesus (p.184) says this about 1 Corinthians 14:34-35: "

• n the basis of a combination of evidence -- several manuscripts that shuffle the verses around, the immediate literary context, and the context within 1 Corinthians as a whole -- it appears that Paul did not write 1 Cor. 14:34-35."

"LOL PAUL DIDNT WRITE IT, I FKN SWEAR HAHA, BUT HE WROTE ALL THAT OTHER STUFF MOS DEF"

Then why don't churches teach this or take it out of their versions of the Bible? Ooh, that'd be revisionism! And that's a no-no (unless you're Conservapedia...Who wants to open a betting pool on whether they leave this in?)

Anyhow, here's the money link: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/womens_rights.html

Edit: Ah. The "Joseph Smith Chrono Trigger Retranslation" replaces "speak" with "rule" for those verses, so it affirms that women can't hold the priesthood. Now that's Change Women can Believe in™ (and do). Pfft.