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A HERETIC I AM

(24,377 posts) Tue Mar 24, 2015, 10:01 PM Mar 2015

"You Grow Up Wanting to be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire"

Extraordinary piece;

http://upriser.com/posts/you-grow-up-wanting-to-be-luke-skywalker-then-realize-you-ve-become-a-stormtrooper-for-the-empire

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"You Grow Up Wanting to be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire" (Original Post) A HERETIC I AM Mar 2015 OP

Use the farce. Compass33 Mar 2015 #1

About a thousand years ago... Bigmack Mar 2015 #2

Compass33

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1. Use the farce.

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Tue Mar 24, 2015, 10:03 PM

Mar 2015

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)

2. About a thousand years ago...

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Tue Mar 24, 2015, 11:40 PM

Mar 2015

JFK asked me what I was going to do for my country.

I enlisted in the Marines because I was going to be a good guy defending the innocents from the bad guys.

Turns out that I became one of the bad guys beating up and killing the innocents.

Same tune... different generation.

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