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Subject: That Vitcorian Baptist preacher? Mr "A good character is the best tombstone"? Why?
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia)	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:07:54 11/21/04 Sun In reply to: Nick (UK) 's message, "Updates" on 17:23:01 11/20/04 Sat [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Perhaps because 'Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.'
Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:35:49 11/21/04 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 23:31:34 11/21/04 Sun

Yes, but I hardly think that Mr Newry Neock or whatever he calls himself has much antipathy to hypocrisy, since he seems to suggest establishing a militant theocracy whilst castigating Popery and El Islam - the two greatest Theocratic institutions since the fall of Tibet.

And I'm all for hypocrisy. Wilde called it 'the English vice', referring to the paradox that dishonourable people who wanted to convince others that they were honourable had to behave in an honourable manner in order to do so. If hypocrisy makes us behave better out of fear of being 'found out', then all the better!

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[> [> [> [> Subject: I agree
Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 10:45:31 11/22/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: The English Vice (so called)
Author: A [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:17:33 11/22/04 Mon "Wilde called it 'the English vice', " I thought that was something else, which he himself practiced! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: what would that be - intelligent thought?
Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 19:47:14 11/22/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Only Americans call buggery "The English Vice".
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:43:58 11/22/04 Mon And anyway, in his case it was "the Anglo-Irish Vice"! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]