Bryan Killian, a high school student in North Buncombe, North Carolina was suspended for coming to school dressed as a pirate.
But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
Read about it in the Metro or the Citizen-Times.
This story is blowing up and I’ve been having a lot of problems keeping the server running. It’s currently #1 on Digg and Reddit.
I’ll have some updates and more information about all this soon.
“I think Peter P is more liberal than me and further towards Anarchist.”
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Yeah, right, and I’m a devout Catholic who says the Rosary on the hour ;)
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@Pixel & Wench Beth – nothing wrong with anarchism! The UK is about to form a Ministry of Justice – subdivision of the Home Office! Oh sorry, Ministry for Justice!
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HAHAHAHAHA! – shit! The thought police are near :(
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OK folks – who are for a concerted attack? Aryan Nation!
“http://thefolk.invisionzone.com/”
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Quotes for a reason – wont give referrer id to them
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Alchemist Mar 31st, 2007 at 11:18 am
@Pixel & Wench Beth – nothing wrong with anarchism! The UK is about to form a Ministry of Justice – subdivision of the Home Office! Oh sorry, Ministry for Justice!”
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But me D?
We both know that I’m a hardcore conservative conformist.
Make no waves! That’s my motto!
Ramen
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Don’t remind me of those Morons, Alchemist, can’t stand too much stupidity… makes me unpack the ’special’ syringes again! But on the other hand… it’s too painless
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@Peter Popoff
“We both know that I’m a hardcore conservative conformist.”
Conservative conformist maybe, yet about to revolutionise the world in 2008 in a way as yet unseen in all of history! How can you call yourself a conformist when your first administration will kick off the most momentous initiative ever undertaken by any US administration?! Are you sure you didn’t just take a little too much of your own miracle water before posting that just there?
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I think we’re missing a vital point here.
If all it takes is one eyepatch to disrupt the learning process in our public schools, then we need to re-examine our educational system. If a teacher can’t hold the class’s attention in the face of that, they’re doing something horribly wrong.
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DutchPastaGuy Mar 31st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
@Peter Popoff
“We both know that I’m a hardcore conservative conformist.â€
Conservative conformist maybe, yet about to revolutionise the world in 2008 in a way as yet unseen in all of history! How can you call yourself a conformist when your first administration will kick off the most momentous initiative ever undertaken by any US administration?! Are you sure you didn’t just take a little too much of your own miracle water before posting that just there?”
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Sush, DPG hehe
I’m practicing to win over the right wingers over here.
See I have realized. We will need their backing to pull this off.
The slavery will speak volumes to them; I’m just worried it won’t be enough.
Anything new from my A number one policy writer?
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Peter Popoff
Patriarch Saint of the Tequilas
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William Anderson Mar 31st, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I think we’re missing a vital point here.
If all it takes is one eyepatch to disrupt the learning process in our public schools, then we need to re-examine our educational system. If a teacher can’t hold the class’s attention in the face of that, they’re doing something horribly wrong.”
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Hi, it wasn’t disruptive to the class.
It was the Asst Principal – Sarah Cooley,
That got her panties in a bunch.
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@Alchemist
Oh I know, there’s no harm in a little lawless chaos now and then, but really, Petey, an anarchist? I wouldn’t put it past some of the other people here, but still…
RAmen
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Enya – a few of us cause problems for them – when we can :)
Check out TOR network – you can change your IP every time you get banned! Gold-dust!
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Hi Pixely dude.
I know.
This is very confusing to me?
Ramen
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@Petey
Where are you man? You aren’t logged in on Gmail.
RAmen
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@Peter Popoff
“Anything new from my A number one policy writer?”
Well, not on policy, but I have been working hard. I have managed to bring in a series of large campaign donations. I’ve had some closed-door discussions with captains of industry of the jewelry and faishon trade. They are quite extatic about the giraffe initiative. With people developing hugely long necks, they’ll need many, many more diamond necklaces etc to look chique. So designers and manufacturers of scarfs, necklaces are set for a huge boom once the giraffe initiative takes effect. And they’ve put their money where their mouth is. Our campaign fund is overflowing!
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Just imagine the effect the giraffe initiative will have on the faishon industry. The catwalks of Paris faishon shows will never look the same again!
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LOL, DutchPastaGuy!!!!!!!!
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DutchPastaGuy Mar 31st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
@Peter Popoff
“Anything new from my A number one policy writer?â€
Well, not on policy, but I have been working hard. I have managed to bring in a series of large campaign donations. I’ve had some closed-door discussions with captains of industry of the jewelry and faishon trade. They are quite extatic about the giraffe initiative. With people developing hugely long necks, they’ll need many, many more diamond necklaces etc to look chique. So designers and manufacturers of scarfs, necklaces are set for a huge boom once the giraffe initiative takes effect. And they’ve put their money where their mouth is. Our campaign fund is overflowing!
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Just imagine the effect the giraffe initiative will have on the faishon industry. The catwalks of Paris faishon shows will never look the same again!”
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This is most excellent news! I was on the trail myself this week.
Wound up in NC in the bible belt. It was a very concerned constituent down there that told me to play the conservative card, a little more then we had been.
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I’m estadic over hearing your good news too!
It certainly will change the runway model business; they’ll have to give everybody stepladders to watch the models.
Most excellent!
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Peter Popoff
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I can’t believe it – the bastards are trying to block me already! Just because I have brown (light blond) hair!
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Do they not believe in free peaches?
Buggers!
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I have never been banned from a site before! (hahahahahahahahahaha – even I laugh at that)
The injustice of it all!
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Alchemist Mar 31st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I have never been banned from a site before! (hahahahahahahahahaha – even I laugh at that)
The injustice of it all!
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A very wise man once told me…
about a half/hour ago…
It’s just the net, relax dude!
hahahaha
Ramen
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I don’t dare to try… even though I have blue eyes ;) maybe they’re not that dumb
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@Peter Popoff
Oh my FSM. Sorry to ruin the upbeat mood so fast after posting my optimistic campaign donors news, but there is serious trouble. Apparantly the Greeks are trying to steal my grand giraffe strategy. They’ve developed some intermediate species between man and horse, know as centaur:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur
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This is a blatant rip-off, let me quote: “The centaurs descended from Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares.”. If that doesn’t convince you they’re trying to steal my giraffe plan, then what will?
Obviously, they haven’t really caught on to the great idea behind the cross-mating strategy. I mean, horses are hardly any taller than humans. With a horse-length neck noone is going to reach the cooler air in the upper atmosphere once global warming becomes rife. But it does lead to some startling conclusions.
First of all: I fear we may have a spy in our midst. We need to examine the entire Pastafarian congregation to see who the traitorous rice eater is. And since you’re pandering to the more consevative vote, I suggest the death penalty for whoever the spy turns out to be. Not something barbaric of course, we have a peaceful mind set. I think death by the horror of looking at 83-year old strippers with artifical limbs and horribly wrinkled skin is appropriate. Or drowning in stale beer.
Second: we must add Greece to the list of countries destined for carpet spaghetti bombing. The bombers that will hit Australia shortly after you become president should fly on to Greece. Whereas that country was once the cradle of European civilisation, it has obviously lost the embrace of His Noodly appendages. No surprise there, just look at the consumption of rice. While during the days of the ancient Greece there was not a grain of rice to be found in all of Greece, it is now commonly available in many ordinary restaurants in that country. It saddens me to see how deep that country has sunk. I think you’ll agree with me that firm action is required?
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Enya – the Aryan nation are always dumb – conditions of service :))
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and Enya – drop me a line on baccahnalindelight@yahoo.co.uk- there’s a small group of us – not all like me :) in fact none like me – drop me a line and I’ll send you an invite :))
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@Alchemist
Hahaha, I know you’re email. Prepare to be spammed mate ;)
RAmen
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Hi Alchemist, email keeps coming back with failure notice ???
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Enya Mar 31st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hi Alchemist, email keeps coming back with failure notice ???
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Hi, try this one….
notchemung@gmail.com
same group, different email
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You’ve got a dash at end of UK Alchemist :)
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I tried it without the dash :D
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DutchPastaGuy Mar 31st, 2007 at 2:01 pm
@Peter Popoff
Oh my FSM. Sorry to ruin the upbeat mood so fast after posting my optimistic campaign donors news, but there is serious trouble. Apparantly the Greeks are trying to steal my grand giraffe strategy. They’ve developed some intermediate species between man and horse, know as centaur:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur
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This is a blatant rip-off, let me quote: “The centaurs descended from Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares.â€. If that doesn’t convince you they’re trying to steal my giraffe plan, then what will?
Obviously, they haven’t really caught on to the great idea behind the cross-mating strategy. I mean, horses are hardly any taller than humans. With a horse-length neck noone is going to reach the cooler air in the upper atmosphere once global warming becomes rife. But it does lead to some startling conclusions.
First of all: I fear we may have a spy in our midst. We need to examine the entire Pastafarian congregation to see who the traitorous rice eater is. And since you’re pandering to the more consevative vote, I suggest the death penalty for whoever the spy turns out to be. Not something barbaric of course, we have a peaceful mind set. I think death by the horror of looking at 83-year old strippers with artifical limbs and horribly wrinkled skin is appropriate. Or drowning in stale beer.
Second: we must add Greece to the list of countries destined for carpet spaghetti bombing. The bombers that will hit Australia shortly after you become president should fly on to Greece. Whereas that country was once the cradle of European civilisation, it has obviously lost the embrace of His Noodly appendages. No surprise there, just look at the consumption of rice. While during the days of the ancient Greece there was not a grain of rice to be found in all of Greece, it is now commonly available in many ordinary restaurants in that country. It saddens me to see how deep that country has sunk. I think you’ll agree with me that firm action is required?”
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DPG, Those Bastards!
It figures, someone gets an idea, and someone else tries to say it was greek mythology. Happens all the dang time! Arrrggghhh We’ll fix them.
We are doing carpet spaghetti bombing now? Sweeetttt!
Man, I’ll tell you what; if we can’t win this election on our own merit. Nobody will.
Yes, lets get some protection in hear ASAP! We need to hang all spys on clotheslines until the world sees that spying is a bad idea.
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@Everybody, please sign up for the Peter Popoff for Prez Mythology campaign, we are currently looking for COPS to police our ideas.
That made no sense at all.
Dang it! I’ve been sipping tequila since earlier today.
So I may have to wait myself to sound more sensible.
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DPG, keep up the Great work!
Everybody, I’ll be here in body for now…
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Thank you all for the support to date.
Peter Popoff
Future Prez an’ stuff
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@ Enya,
Check your email. :)
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@ Pixel
Hahaha, I know you’re email. Prepare to be spammed mate ;)
RAmen
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HAHAHAHAHA – not a chance my friend – I have more email accs than fingers and toes :)
Spam away :) – drop me a line! Really! Love to chat to you – feel the lulz :)
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Grrrrr… I just found a thread on the forum handling this, animated by people who obviously don’t know (unless, of course, I’ve been going through that thread to quickly…) it’s been discussed largely HERE. I posted a link, but I’m still not used to the fact that there is so little cross-over between the forum and the main page: sometimes, it’s like two different worlds… Like I said: Grrrr!
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@ Jean
I posted the link to it at disciples yesterday.
The thread from the main site.
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@Peter Popoff Mar 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pm “@ Jean I posted the link to it at disciples yesterday. The thread from the main site.”
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Re-Grrrr! Not the Disciples… I mean the F-O-R-U-M, you know, that thingy where main page posters get told off because they’re too loudmouthed… There REALLY is a cross-over problem here… or did that excellent Geuze eat too mutch of my brain cells tonight?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!
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Jean Bart Mar 31st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
@Peter Popoff Mar 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pm “@ Jean I posted the link to it at disciples yesterday. The thread from the main site.â€
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Re-Grrrr! Not the Disciples… I mean the F-O-R-U-M, you know, that thingy where main page posters get told off because they’re too loudmouthed… There REALLY is a cross-over problem here… or did that excellent Geuze eat too mutch of my brain cells tonight?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!
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Hahahaha,
Yes I know. I posted the thread that is going on at the FSM Discussion Forum.
Into the Disciples group.
MPT should be shot or run over or just discarded or something, he’s a joke.
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@PP
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Oh my FSM, it’s even more complicated: I went back a brazillion of Disciples’ post to finf your link, and mine is different, and more recent: the kid himself is not in it: someone else who, heard it over the radio, started the thread I saw… the mods over there were looking elsewhere, I suppose… now, I’ll go back and “interlink” both forum threads…
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Pffff, to find both threads…: they’re in two completely different sections, and animated by quite different people, and going off-topic quite a different way… I posted a “linking link” in both (text: “Related thread?”), but now I’m thinking: why bother? Those people are blabbing along, blabbing along. And NOW for some sleep!
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bitchin’! way to go Killian.
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I can honestly say, with His Noodly Greatness as my witness, that I had no idea there were any non-christians in the state of North Carolina.
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http://bryankillian.blogspot.com/
Cute stuff ;)
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@ DPG and Peter – I just want to set the record straight – I blatantly “borrowed” my horse’s name to post here (OK, just the “Rowdy” part, the “Wench” is all me!) but I promise that I am not the spy!!!! :) Just wanted you to know…
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Thumper
Myspace message:
“Error: You must be someone’s friend to make comments about them.”
:(((
Your ears look short?
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Did you have them trimmed especially?
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@Wenchy
“Your ears look short?”…like I’m gonna make you my myspace friend when you say such hurtfull things…my ears may not be pretty but they work just fine…*insert sensitive wabbit*
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freespeech………..yeah right!
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Hi Thumper :)
Well I just kinda expected them to be a bit longer is all :))
Nice tatt too :)
On another note I was just Googling April Fools stuff and came up with (on the first results page):
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“In praise of an alternate creation theory at Church of the Flying …
But nothing beats the April Fools day gag, perpetuated a couple of thousand … shown this display of the damage to crops by the destructive spaghetti worm. …
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http://www.venganza.org/2007/01/07/in-praise-of-an-alternate-creation-theory.htm – 211k – Cached – Similar pages”
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And then saw a link DPG provided on that same thread that led to some good April Fools Day stories
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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I remember we had a similar Spaghetti worm crop infection story one year in Aust?
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
“In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth’s own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.”
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Hahahahahahahaha
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@ Peter
“MPT should be shot or run over or just discarded or something, he’s a joke.”
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I asked JB if he could tempt old Troopsie onto the main page – he didn’t think it was likely though :(
I think he’d be fun for a few hours without the safety net of moderators. I know damned well I’d have fun!
A loud spammer indeed – Humf :)
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And Pixel – The anarchism thing. I know this will be difficult for people to swallow (tehehehe) but I do believe in laws. It’s just that I also believe they don’t apply to me. Or if they do then they’re more ‘guidelines’ and, therefore, optional :)
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(only me about yet – is everyone else at Church?)
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For anyone who hasn’t seen this -
http://www.comedycorner.org/
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check out (well, all of them but esp.)
50 fun things to do at church
50 Fun Things for Professors to Do on the First Day of Class
Gender Specific College Courses
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Funny :)
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@Nikkiee
It was ages ago that I read that decreasing gravity thing. Thanks for posting the full quote, nice to reread it. Although it does unfortunately underscore that people will indeed believe anything and attest to having experienced anything. Anyone here with a pair of paralysed legs who wants to go to Lourdes?
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