morfe
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A great message from George Carlin
Feb 12, 2002, 16:47
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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and
smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more
problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too
much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry,
stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and
pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our
values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've
learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not
life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have
trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer
space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom,
but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but
accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more
computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we
communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow
digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow
relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier
houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable
diapers, throw away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills
that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there
is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when
technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose
either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.
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morfe
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Re: A great message from George Carlin
Feb 12, 2002, 16:49
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"We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. "
hmmmm... ;-)
S'pose he couldn't get it all right!
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Mr B
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Re: A great message from George Carlin
Feb 12, 2002, 16:52
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excellent...so fucking true
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cHARLIE
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<dELete!> <TwEeT'TwEeT'cHiRp'ChIrP>
wHERES ME SOUL? In A HoLe.......
LiViNg wItH A MoLe WhO sIgNS ON tHEE dOlE, but OnLY suNdazES*¬).
yARlIAN*
P.S.....pHoNes RiNGiNg!
u'm? gOrDoN!
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caergog
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Re: A great message from George Carlin
Feb 12, 2002, 20:56
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but we don't all do that,we don't all think that way,
I hope........
who needs to go to the moon when the world is at our feet??
love
carolinex ;)
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cHARLIE
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ReMoOn*
Feb 13, 2002, 00:38
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No one has been to the MoOn It WAS A film SET!
CHARles*
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Quexalcote
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Re: A great message from George Carlin
Feb 13, 2002, 01:22
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That may be from Paul Harvey or somebody, but it sure as fuck isn't Carlin. Carlin would never say that people "pray too seldom" for one thing, and the language and tone are just VERY OBVIOUSLY not his at all.
Check out www.georgecarlin.com or any of his books or HBO specials and you'll see pretty quickly that it's not the guy who wrote that.
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Quexalcote
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ACTUALLY...
Feb 13, 2002, 08:38
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Just to clear the good name of my man George, he addresses this very piece on his website: www.georgecarlin.com Go down about halfway to the link to stuff he DIDN'T write.
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FourWinds
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Re: A great message from George Carlin
Feb 13, 2002, 08:58
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I must admit the Pray Too Seldom line did throw me a little.
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AgentOrange
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Re: A great message from George Carlin
Feb 13, 2002, 10:07
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Why?
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