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Edited by Autolycus:
4/27/2016 8:01:14 AM
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What is the greatest lie ever created?
What is the greatest lie every created? What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind? Slavery? The Holocaust? Dictatorship? No. It's the tool with which all that wickedness is built: altruism. Whenever anyone wants others to do their work, they call upon their altruism. Never mind your own needs, they say, think of the needs of... of whoever. The state. The poor. Of the army, of the king, of God! The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words "think of yourself"? It's the "king and country" crowd who light the torch of destruction. It is this great inversion, this ancient lie, which has chained humanity to an endless cycle of guilt and failure.
My journey to Rapture was my second exodus. In 1919, I fled a country that had traded in despotism for insanity. The Marxist revolution simply traded one lie for another. Instead of one man, the tsar, owning the work of all the people, *all* the people owned the work of all of the people. So, I came to America: where a man could own his own work, where a man could benefit from the brilliance of his own mind, the strength of his own muscles, the *might* of his own will. I had thought I had left the parasites of Moscow behind me. I had thought I had left the Marxist altruists to their collective farms and their five-year plans. But as the German fools threw themselves on Hitler's sword "for the good of the Reich", the Americans drank deeper and deeper of the Bolshevik poison, spoon-fed to them by Roosevelt and his New Dealists. And so, I asked myself: in what country was there a place for men like me - men who refused to say "yes" to the parasites and the doubters, men who believed that work was sacred and property rights inviolate. And then one day, the happy answer came to me, my friends: there was *no* country for people like me! And *that* was the moment I decided... to build one.
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7 RepliesThe internet switch. The best bait of all time. [spoiler]comment below if you want the story. [/spoiler]
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Religion.
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17 Replies"I have read and accept these terms and conditions."
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[i]Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori[/i] Roughly, it means 'It is sweet and honourable to dies for ones country'. No greater lie has resulted in the deaths of millions.
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i saw Batman vs superman, lex brought up many times 'whats americas greatest lie?' or something to that effect.
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My dog ate my homework
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Edited by Meta Legionaire: 5/1/2016 9:43:02 PMTwo women sat at a table quietly and were polite to each other the whole time
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R[b]a[/b]pe
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The Cartesian ego image of ourselves. It's the one thing we cling to above all else, and it is the biggest lie of all.
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2 RepliesThe Cake
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Marriage.
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2 RepliesHitler died
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Religion
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9/11.
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"Soon."
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Edited by Motor Minx: 5/1/2016 6:03:18 PMYour dick size [spoiler]kappa[/spoiler]
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"I'm not a crook!"
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7 RepliesThe greatest trick the devil ever played, was convincing the world he didn't exist.
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1 ReplySanta Claus. Tooth Fairy. Easter Bunny. My life has never been the same since I found out.
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Edited by Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 5/1/2016 4:29:41 PMThat there is something out there in the universe watching out for us and that there is a life after this with the potential to be infinitely better than this life. These two notions have likely been responsible in whatever forms they have taken for an immeasurable amount of hate, discrimination, manipulation of others, death, and suppression of critical and objective thought processes.
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This is not b8
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"Namek will explode in 5 minutes"
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Tom Cruise: "I'm not gay."
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The bible
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That self preservation is necessary. :P
