The Sad Case Of Thomas Paine

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Description: "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot." If only . . .
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ad3543 ::: Favorites Awesome history lesson. Paine was angry with Washington for not supporting his case when he was imprisoned in France. He wrote Washington, "as to you, sir, treacherous in private friendship...and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide... whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any." 07-08-10 01:16:40 _____________________________________________________
ad3543 ::: Favorites The reference is the American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans. Dell 1967 This is the quality of information your garden variety child had access to and could read 40 years ago. Not today. 07-08-10 01:17:43 _____________________________________________________
machphantom ::: Favorites Haha, it just shows that you can't take everything you learn from your Euro History book, cause I looked up what you said and it said that Galileo "faced death after his views were seen by the church as harmful to their doctrine." That's very deceptive wording. Anyways the man sometimes refered to as the father of modern Physics was basically put under house arrest and shunned by the church for his ideas. 07-08-10 02:48:27 _____________________________________________________
nicolatwo ::: Favorites 5 stars. 07-08-10 04:20:28 _____________________________________________________
IsaacBickerstaffEsq ::: Favorites He did face death, as that was the only possible sentence for heresy. It was a very close call and only his lifelong friendship with the Pope that saved him. His sentence was just as deceptively worded to give the casual appearance that he had been declared heretic without actually doing so, but the focus was turned to the -book- rather than him personally. On the plus side he wrote his Magnum Opus during those years of house arrest. 07-08-10 12:39:38 _____________________________________________________
IsaacBickerstaffEsq ::: Favorites However, your post does raise my one real nit to pick with TAA's video. At least as often as allowing our social heros to die in poor obscurity we take the short route and just kill them outright. If it makes you "feel funny," hit it with a brick until it stops moving, then go for more beer. 07-08-10 12:58:14 _____________________________________________________
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MissAnthropic66 ::: Favorites I would send this to Paleocrat..but that would be far to sinister of me...but man o man I would LOVE to see you 2 debate!......TAA...u should DEFINITELY check this guy out..you are like his polar opposite. the bizarro world TAA (j/k Paleo) btw-5 stars- my friend 07-08-10 14:42:33 _____________________________________________________
MissAnthropic66 ::: Favorites and peace-fuck-out 2 u 2 my brother 07-08-10 14:46:13 _____________________________________________________
machphantom ::: Favorites Or as they did in the middle ages grain alcohol... 07-08-10 15:28:00 _____________________________________________________
urbanclimber777 ::: Favorites what are you doing about it taa -the matrix has you 07-08-10 22:18:12 _____________________________________________________