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Comment author: taw 20 March 2010 01:39:28AM 5 points [-]

Time spent thinking about something correlates far too much with how much a person likes an idea. People who believe strongly in the Holy Trinity have spent far more time on average thinking about it than people who don't.

So, you will end up very strongly biased if you follow own advice (but then I haven't thought about it much at all).

Comment author: simplicio 20 March 2010 04:12:10AM *  0 points [-]

At the edge of Clangford's garden, he built a lovely cell

Where he contemplated Limbo, then Purgatory and Hell.

With the barbed wire in his underpants he found it hard to sleep.

All he had for company was jockey boys and sheep.

(I was, rather serendipitously, listening to that song ("God Woman" by Christy Moore) as I read your comment.)

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