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Re: More religion (sort of) (was Re: More Clinton )
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Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:42:34 GMT
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:40:37 GMT, "Jesse Long" <LongJR97@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36a8aa9f.144815446@lugnet.com>...
> > What _is_ a Darwin fish? or a God fish, for that matter?
> 
> 
> I'll start this from the beginning, in case you don't know the whole story.

Thanks.

> Christians use a fish symbol to represent Christianity.  It looks kind of
> like this: <>< if your imagination is good.  It's just the outline, made by
> two curves.  It was originally a secret sign back when Christians were being
Oh yeah, right, I think I remember seeing that once or twice now.

> persecuted by Rome.  Some of these fish have the Greek letters for Jesus
> (IXOYE) in them.  You see these fish almost exclusively on the back of cars.

We here in the Netherlands almost never have bumper-stickers, so I
guess we missed out :)

> I say was a new thing: one of those Darwin things being eaten by a larger
> fish that had the word "God" in the middle.  Kind of a "you're clever but
> we're more clever" kind of thing.

Any bets on when we will see a darwin fish being eaten by a god fish
being eaten by a Nietzsche fish being eaten by a Holy Trinity fish?

> It's along the same lines as the T-shirt with the two quotes:
> 
> "God is dead" --Nietzsche
> "Nietzsche is dead" --God

Hmmm.... :)

Jasper



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  Re: More religion (sort of) (was Re: More Clinton )
 
Jasper Janssen writes: [[Sniped some stuff]] (...) [[snipped the rest]] Why don't we put all the fish in the Schrödinger-box[1] and wait till tomorow to see which fish has survived? Mark [1] This is the box in which you put a cat and some poison and (...) (28 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36a8aa9f.144815446@...et.com>... (...) I'll start this from the beginning, in case you don't know the whole story. Christians use a fish symbol to represent Christianity. It looks kind of like this: <>< if your (...) (28 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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