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Wrong! I once wrote an essay called “Wrong”. Like when Neville Chamberlain hopped off the plane from the Munich Agreement and declared "There will be peace in our time.” It took a hundred million dead and wounded to prove him WRONG.

How about the record studio manager that told Elvis Presley to go back to wherever you came from and drive a truck. WRONG.

Or the Tin Pan Alley a record studio boss that told Sophie Tucker, “You're too fat to be a Broadway star. To back to Connecticut. WRONG.

Here's a good one: At the end of the Civil War the U.S. was a broken nation: 600,000 dead, the infrastructure a mess, people alienated and dejected, no money. The monarchs of Europe said to themselves “I knew democracy would never work.” WRONG: That was 1965. By the end of the century the U.S. led the the world in railroads, telegraphs, telephones, steam engines, steel production, kerosene for lamps then energy, aviation, and oh yeah automobiles.

But by far, the WRONGEST, stupidest statement ever made was made by a man claiming to be God: THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH. Yeah right, tell that to the Jews marching into the Auschwitz ovens.

Aristopus 7 May 18
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churchill was smarter

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What is your point? Every day is rife with mistakes -- large and small -- by many people

Yes, but when you go to the wrong address, or dial the wrong number, that doesn't affect the course of history.

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You missed out a major "WRONG!" This one:-

Mass production of civilian VW cars did not start until post-war occupation. The Volkswagen factory was handed over by the Americans to British control in 1945; it was to be dismantled and shipped to Britain. However, no British car manufacturer was interested in the factory; an official report included the phrases "the vehicle does not meet the fundamental technical requirement of a motor-car… it is quite unattractive to the average buyer… To build the car commercially would be a completely uneconomic enterprise."

How many million Beetles sold worldwide??

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The Romans got 'Jesus' to say that, amoung other things, because they wanted the Jews to behave themselves. 'Jesus' also said to give to Caesar what was his, in the form of taxes, of course. They also got the waterwalker to say his 'kingdom' was not of this earth. In other words, the messiah the Jews were waiting for, who was going to deliver an earthly paradise? Uh-uh, wasn't going to happen! This Jesus character was some kinda pro-Roman dude, wasn't he? And didn't have much good to say about all those Jewish rabble-rousers who were causing Rome so much trouble...hmmm...wonder why that was? Couldn't have been because the Romans made him up, could it? Nahhh...

of course Jesus was created to quell the Jews
look what they've done with it, it's the most significant movement in human history
whether we like it or not they've taken marketing to a whole new high

@m16566 But to abandon their whole mythological religion like that, and to substitute in its place a spiffy NEW religion based on the mystery religions-- and amounting to paeans to the Flavian emperors-- (all also sheer nonsense, of course) is the real, amazing story. Someone ought to make a movie about THAT! Talk about a blockbuster!
And some people wonder why we talk about religion all the time...uh, hello! Because the incredible truth is so hard to believe we can scarcely wrap our minds around it. It'll take CENTURIES to deconstruct all this gobblygook and make some sense out of who we REALLY are, based on science, reason, rational thought, and facts--if we ever do.
You know, the question is often asked, 'if you could go back in time and be able to talk to any person or group of people, who would he or she or they, be?' Hands down for me would be those people who birthed the Christian religion--wrote or chose the books, printed and distributed them, put the whole edifice in place. I know it took years over generations, but there must have been a room somewhere (maybe it was Titus or his father's crew) where they were sitting around trying to figure out what to do about the Jews, and a light went on in someone's head, and amidst the drunken laughter about creating a new, custom-made messiah, real excitement grew, and the realization dawned--we could actually DO this!
I'd like to talk to THEM!

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WRONG ! The Civil War didn't end in 1965 .

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South.[c] The most studied and written about episode in U.S. history,[16] the Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. War broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated as the President of the United States. The loyalists of the Union in the North proclaimed support for the Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South, who advocated for states' rights to uphold slavery.

What's a century between friends. It's just finger trouble.

typo, that's all. If you know my writing It doesn't happen very often.

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No disrespect I believe that was 1865.
one of the most unique things about the god hypothesis, is how resilient it can be.
if bad things happen to good people it's a test of faith.
or God moves in mysterious ways.
or it's the work of the devil.
we know they're wrong somehow we must try to understand them in order to live among them.

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