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But vain the Sword and vain the Bow
They can never Work War’s overthrow.
The Hermit’s Prayer and the Widow’s Tear
Alone can free the World from fear.
For a Tear is an Intellectual Thing
And a Sigh is the Sword of an Angel King
And the bitter groan of a Martyr’s woe
Is an Arrow from the Almightie’s Bow
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed
To which the Purple Tyrant fled.
The iron hand crushed the Tyrant’s head
And became a Tyrant in his stead.
Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
How you awake our sleeping sword of war.
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;
For never two such kingdoms did contend
Without much fall of blood, whose guiltless drops
Are every one a woe, a sore complaint
'Gainst him whose wrongs gives edge unto the swords
That makes such waste in brief mortality.
"Grey Monk" by William Blake
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Bump Urban Dictionary gives this definition to "Poe's Law" "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing." Kind of explains the whole wackiness behind the popular Comedy Central Show Stephen Colbert's -- Colbert Report. Some of the wackiness and outright "Dangers" of Religous Fundamentalism are well chronicaled in Religulous
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Quote:For a Tear is an Intellectual Thing I love that line, for some reason. So, jdlaw, what's inspiring you on this thread?
There is no spoon.
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Quote:The iron hand crushed the Tyrant’s head
And became a Tyrant in his stead. This world is a very important program in our own path towards sentience. Mankind is certainly in a fallen state. Yet, as we learn more about the electro-magnetic microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet light, X-rays, gamma-rays, and others -- it increases our ability for the world broadcast communications -- and in-turn diminishes our needs for war. "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein 
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