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And what is the most common response to discovering you're dead?

Well, ain't this some shit?

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That was in a conversation between L. Ron Hubbard and Isaac Asimov at the 1956 World Science Fiction Convention, as witnessed by Harlan Ellison.

Considering it was science fiction authors at a science fiction convention, it may have very well taken place in a bar.

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I can't handle reading that. I'm a quart low and the blood doesn't come quite up to my brain now.

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He only had to deal with hookers, lepers, religious conservatives and an occupying foreign power. He wasn't equipped to handle loony grifters making money off His name.

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Well, jeez, now I have to kill you.

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I used to worship at the altar of the Holy Trinity of Walsh, Montana and Rice but now it's Curry, Thompson, Green, Durant and Kerr.

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"God is calling his bride?"I know I'm a horrid blasphemer with no reverence or decency ...but ...I much prefer that bit of feminist graffiti, "God called it Immaculate Conception. Mary called it rape."

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Breast cancer. It's a real bitch.

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I didn't "read the whole thing" because the "Missoulian" first wanted me to take a survey or "answer some questions" before I got to read any further. Fuck that! Looked kinda grifty...

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Can you imagine how Mr. Carlin would be raging about everything if he were alive today? Would it still be funny? Probably more like "See? I told you so!"

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Busoms.

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“Several of the answers offered by the Deans are like coins in the deep end of a swimming pool, vaguely recognizable but not reachable.” You go, Missoulian! YOU GO!

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Screwy ain't it?

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Yes I can. He would be apoplectic.

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Digression: In the myths, Mary actually consented, and she was venerated for centuries specifically because she made that heroic choice. Erasing her worship also erased her agency and forced her into a passive role.

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