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Old 09-13-2006, 06:13 PM
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Smile Just a thought

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between
assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One
of the courses had a professor who was an avid atheist and a member of the
ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to
the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to
knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes." The lecture
room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the
professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting." It got down
to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went
up to the professor, and cold-cocked him knocking him off the platform The
professor was out cold. The Marine went back to his seat and sat there,
silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there
looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken,
looked at the Marine and asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why
did you do that?"

The Marine calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting America's
troops who are protecting your right to say stupid shit and act like an asshole. ...
...........So, He sent me."
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:17 PM
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So the Marine violated the rights of an American that he took an oath to protect? RIGHT! :rolls eyes:
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:36 PM
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Cold cocked? WTF was going on in that classroom?
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:52 PM
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Cold cocked? WTF was going on in that classroom?
At least it wasn't CAT PORN.
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:57 PM
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Cold cocked? WTF was going on in that classroom?
You mean these kinds of incidents *weren't* a regular part of your undergrad experience? Where did you go to school?? I mean, we had student-professor brawls scheduled in the quad every other Friday ...
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:58 PM
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You mean these kinds of incidents *weren't* a regular part of your undergrad experience? Where did you go to school?? I mean, we had student-professor brawls scheduled in the quad every other Friday ...
Really? Oh my.
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Old 09-13-2006, 07:11 PM
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This is nothing more than a rendition of the story that you can find on snopes involving the atheist professor and a piece of chalk breaking or something like that. You can find it on snopes.com
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Old 09-13-2006, 08:04 PM
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Really? Oh my.

Wouldn't that have been kinda cool?
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Old 09-13-2006, 07:38 PM
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You mean these kinds of incidents *weren't* a regular part of your undergrad experience? Where did you go to school?? I mean, we had student-professor brawls scheduled in the quad every other Friday ...
wondering what undergrad you went to...
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:38 PM
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Uh huh. Anyway, what does the ACLU have to do with anything in the story?
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:44 PM
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Uhhhh, so was this Marine dude arrested by one of your cop buddies, or is crime okay if committed by someone in the military, or is this another one of those stupid messages people forward by email even though NOBODY LIKES TO RECEIVE THEM?
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Old 09-13-2006, 06:46 PM
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If this story actually happened and is not just more of Earp's email glurge repostings, I am still not sure what is newsworthy or political about it.

ETA, it is too much to hope that Tom learns to use Snopes, I guess.

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