Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

[Sean Renaud]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Food, water and shelter are all necessary to human life. So did our Creator endow us with inalienable rights or should we, like we so often do, simply mark that off as something said two hundred plus years ago by people who could never have envisioned just how much the world would change over time?

 

[fair_warning]

Maybe it's an issue for the 'creator' ?

 

[renard_ruse]

Maybe it's an issue for the 'creator' ?

So putting Him in quotes wasn't enough you had to also use a small c?

 

[TonyClifton]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

"Sounds like something a Jewish person might say."
- Jackie Mason

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[Liar]

How long is one endowed with the right to life? Until the first illness kicks in, or until modern medicine runs out of ideas?

 

[KRCummings]

How long is one endowed with the right to life? Until the first illness kicks in, or until modern medicine runs out of ideas?

Right up until the bus hits you.

 

[Peregrinator]

So putting Him in quotes wasn't enough you had to also use a small c?

Who is the creator?

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'm on record saying KRC is the creator.

 

[phrodeau]

Who is the creator?

In order to learn this, you have to avail yourself of all the ancient creation stories that have come down to us from our venerable ancestors.

Then, in a moment of sober contemplation, consider everything you've learned about the infinite universe and your place within it, search deep within your very being, and take a wild stab at it.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Can't I just get out my D20 and assume that when it tells me that Balderon Black Blade created the world when he shattered his father Odin into the stars above and the sand beneath? Your method, it does not sound like something one could do while sober.

 

[phrodeau]

Can't I just get out my D20 and assume that when it tells me that Balderon Black Blade created the world when he shattered his father Odin into the stars above and the sand beneath? Your method, it does not sound like something one could do while sober.

You need to read the Book of Job out loud in a funny voice.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Isn't that the really really sad one about a very shallow man with very deep faith? If I recall it's goes like this.

Devil: Hey God. I bet you I can make any one of your follows say forget this shit.
God: Nuh uh. Job is awesome. He'd never do that.
Devil: Sure. Watch this.
At this point in the story the Devil covers Job in sores, makes him deathly ill, slaughters flock, explains what Job needs to do to make this stop, then kills Jobs seven sons and Seven daughters.
Devil: Damn, you were right. I couldn't break that son of a bitch. I'm gonna go start making a fiddle of gold that I'll be needing later.
God: I should really make that guy rich and cure him of his diseases.
Job: SCORE!

 

[fair_warning]

So putting Him in quotes wasn't enough you had to also use a small c?

Correct.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Who is the creator?

Gary Gygax.

 

[koalabear]

Who is the creator?

Aliens, don't you watch the history channel!

 

[bra_man69]

Aliens, don't you watch the history channel!

Thanks I was about to watch that didn't need know that end.
So is Mike Yates in it?

 

[koalabear]

Thanks I was about to watch that didn't need know that end.
So is Mike Yates in it?

YES!!

 

[Sean Renaud]

Gentlemen. I present Koala. One of the great minds on the GB who was supposed to bring inteligent debate here. Good questions have been asked but he has nothing but snark. Bow to his magnificance and let this thread die. The honorable Koala hath spoken.

 

[Shagly]

The pursuit of freeloading, ain't that America.

This is freedom where stuff is free, free healthcare, free food stamps, free welfare, free education, free housing.........

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Food, water and shelter are all necessary to human life. So did our Creator endow us with inalienable rights or should we, like we so often do, simply mark that off as something said two hundred plus years ago by people who could never have envisioned just how much the world would change over time?

You think people have evolved in two-hundred years?

That they possibly invented some form of government not known to Aristotle and Plato?

TWO revolutions. One based on your first paragraph and the other (French) based on your second paragraph. One turned into a bloodbath and quickly failed.

I choose revolution #1.