Leighton

I'd like to meet:

DEFINATELY LOOKING FOR MY DREAM GIRL. TAKE A LOOK AT MY TOP 24 FOR AN IDEA OF MY TASTE IN WOMEN. Now I'll break it to you really slow.... really clear. I want you if you are hot, sexy, (really) intelligent (so I don't have to dumb myself down for- pretty much "on the level"), I'll want to speak/flirt with you and try and suss you out and tick my mental checklist to see whether you add up to the kind of package that I'm currently in the market for. A latest model woman. The tastiest design. The modern exterior with performance plus under the bonnet. I need a chick that is an excellent ride that can fulfill my mental cravings, fantasies, fetishes, and most importantly for fun. You must rock my fucking world from the first moment that I see you, speak to you, meet you, fuck you, friendshipform with you, lifeshare with you. You have to be fucking worth the sacrifice. I have to want to give up so much for you. You have to be worth the wait, minimise the pain, provide my source of light and warmth, a beacon of hope, shining strongly with the glow of your essence. I wish to bask in it, to have you run beside me in the same direction in life. That you never make me slower, we push each other faster, helping each other achieve more than if we were to go it alone. I can go far alone but the right person might take me further.... elsewhere.... into the unknown, unfamiliar, unbelievable, unknown, unprecidented, unrepeatable. You know who you are. YOU HAVE TO BE FUCKING SPECIAL AND I WILL FUCKING KNOW IT IF YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I seriously am not looking for a sheep and someone that is just going to tag along with everything that I do. I'm looking for someone with a strong sense of individuality that isn't afraid to stand up for what she believes in (like me) and does what she wants to do that makes her happy and hopefully what she is and what she does is something very similar/ complementary to me so that neither of us need to make a huge sacrifices or life changes to be on the same page and be good together. I appreciate that you took the time to read my page. I never expected this quest to be easy. But deep down I know what makes me special and worth it for someone else, you just need to take the time to get to know me and the rewards will always be there. I have a list of personal characteristics, a very specific criteria of selection for the perfect girl. One thing I do know, she will cast a spell on me and I will be hers. I deny myself from everyone that isn't her in the hope of romantic perfection. The perfect balance between physical and mental attraction. A STRONG CONNECTION. I am always looking. This is a list that I am going to quote, I doubt things have changed in the meantime, was written 4 years ago when I started looking for another girl after my last relationship, this time it is my 3rd stab of the heart in a search for love again, the lasting kind. Perfect. She must be: * Someone who I am physically and sexually attracted to that I could not take my eyes off, someone that I just had to have. Its always her eyes that I seek. I am a blue eye fan as a general rule but I have been known to make exceptions to the rules as the situation allows. I have learnt that I can't want anyone else. That I couldn't have anyone better, nor would I want, the temptation is untempting because this person was the ultimate temptation, I am a sucker for being tempted and seduced by powerful irresistible gorgeous charismatic women. But it might not be one woman that I end up with. It could be three. Blonde, Brunette, Redhead. I must admit, blue eyed brunettes that fit the afore mentioned* But I never know who it could be, and as i said before there were some traits I enjoyed including: -Clicking personality/compatible/complementary -Interesting -Intelligent -Sense of humour -Accepting -Understanding -On my level -Inspiring -Inventive -Caring -Compassionate -Adoring -Complex -Nymphomaniac -Not a bitch (at least not 75-98% of the time) -Encouraging -Supporting -Inspired -Focused -Carefree -Down to earth -In the clouds -Free spirited -Positive -Musical taste -Tolerance -Determined -Communicative -Compelling -Party girl -Loyal -Logical -Open minded -Surprising -Educational -Trustworthy -Respectful -Integrity -Experimental -Flexible And thats just the beginning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOYFRIEND APPLICATIONBASICS: Name: Leighton I've been stoned for a while this afternoon trying to chill out Age: 27 Location: Townsville, QLD Height: 188 Hair (color and style): brown short/messy Eyes:blue Piercings/tattoos:neither Sign: GeminiWhy do you want to be my boyfriend: Because I am a boy and I would regard you as a friend and hence the name would make sence to describe a dude that happens to have this chick that he talks to.... Are you attracted to me? can't say until in person why: people aren't what they seem What are your hobbies: boring, i need new ones Favorite bands: Every good band you probably haven't heard before Do you snore: when i get drunk it occurs.... Which side of the bed do you prefer: left or centre or diagonal favorite color: blue green Favorite quality in a girl: eyes Do you belive in love at first sight: I believe in hypothetical love potentiality in a positive interaction between two people that gravitated towards one another.... Favorite fast food place: The nearest What kind of kisser are you: I want to complete in the kiss olympics with a female kissing champion Fav sit down food place: The nearest Do you smoke/drink: smoke what? drink alot! Fav movie: FightClubAClockworkOrangeStarWars Can you cook: I prefer to eat you raw How many girls have you been with: enough to know what i want and what i am holding out for Are you religious, if so what one: I am god Are you a dreamer or down to earth: In one conversation I will travel through the extremes of emotions and I am always a different person but at this very second I am feeling lulled and dreamy listening to 'The Killing Tree' - the Perfect Fav day of the week: i'm easy like partying all saturday and coming down easy like sunday morning.... Are you spontaneous: I will explode in my own spontaneous doing of nothing every second except when i'm motivated to do something and I am exploding with ideas for something different or original/unique/unusal is attempted. Would you rather stay in or go out: I'm ready to go out and do it. Do you like to be alone sometimes: Yeah, right at this second. What do u feel is the most important part of a relationship: The boasting about the sex to friends. Do I have your screen name? : [email protected] What are you looking for in a girl: See my who I would like to meet on my profile www.myspace.com/LeightonESmith because it is too fucking long to print here and I will be adding this quiz to it Would you hold my hand in public: I'll hold your hand Would you take me on drives: you'll beg me to stop What can you offer me that other guys can't: what they never thought of What cologne do you wear: whatever you like on me Do you LOVE to cuddle: Its been a long time between decent cuddles for me Could I trust you with my deepest and darkest secrets: I'm completely open i have nothing to hide. I don't betray trust. Would you trust me with yours: Trust has to be earned What would you do if we were in your room or mine all alone: I'd check to see if you were "in heat" What is the most romantic thing you think a boy could do for a girl: drink her breast milk Would you try to change me: I'd give you an extreme makeover and you will be changed forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1. Where would we go on dates? To a gig and hit the pit together and scream along the words 2. Who is your favorite band? Raised fist and NOFX (see my music list in my profile.... extensive...) 3. Do you drink/smoke?? don't mind smoking buds and drinking everything except rum and scotch. 4. Do you like the rain? hell yeah 5. If so...would you play in it with me? only if its not freezing cold or in the middle of a cyclone 6. Do you like my movies and my bands? Do you like mine? 7. Would you stay up with me all night? I would talk you to sleep with my soothing drone of my voice 8. What would we do all night? well ideally I'd be pushing for torrid sex at least one stage during the night after some made fun and make out sessions doing whatever makes one happy in between 9. Would you kiss my forhead, my lips or my neck? If I was kissing, I'd get to every part eventually 10. Do you play any sports? beach volleyball, indoor cricket, texas hold em poker 11. Do you care if I play sports? It would be good if you were into sport fucking! 12. Would you call me right after we saw each other to make sure i made it home alright? hmmmmm I don't like that whole precious clingy way that question was heading. I guess if I was absolutely paranoid..... 13. How would you rate your kisses from 1-10? 69 14. Favorite body part on you? minds eye 15. What would you say is the best thing about yourself? my uniqueness 16. Do you have any reps (ie: heartbreaker, slut)? tripper 17. Would you give me kisses just because? kisses are standard or optional 18. Would u sleep in the same bed as me? if you were comfortable with it 19. Would u take me home to meet your parents? possibly 20. Do u think u passed? I know that if you have an open mind you'll know that these were the best answers you've read yet.....

Music:

I prefer mainly hard music (preferably live) and good dance (trance) music (when I'm trashed and out on the town)..... Send me an email: [email protected] if there's any music related questions you might have. ............................................... - - HERE ARE MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE 15 BANDS (THIS LIST WILL PROBABLY CHANGE LIKE MY TOP 24)--- 1. Nofx..................... 2. Raised Fist............. 3. Bad Religion........ 4. Ignite........ 5. Hot Water Music........ 6. The Hope Conspiracy 7. The Lawrence Arms 8. Strung Out 9. Rise Against 10. Good Riddance 11. Stretch Armstrong 12. Comeback Kid 13. Misconduct 14. Death by Stereo 15. A Wilhelm Scream TOP 50 FOR 2006: ............................................................ ............................. 1. IGNITE -:- 2. NO TRIGGER -:- 3. RAISED FIST -:- 4. THE LAWRENCE ARMS -:- 5. UNEARTH -:- 6. RISE AGAINST -:- 7. WAR OF AGES -:- 8. THURSDAY -:- 9. ALEXISONFIRE -:- 10. SICK OF IT ALL -:- 11. SET IT STRAIGHT -:- 12. CASEY JONES -:- 13. THE FALCON -:- 14. MUCH THE SAME -:- 15. CALIBAN -:- 16. GUNS UP! -:- 17. DEAD HEARTS -:- 18. UNDEROATH -:- 19. BIG WIG -:- 20. STRIKE ANYWHERE -:- 21. EVERY NEW DAY ................... 22. THE FIRST STEP ................. 23. THE DRAFT ................ 24. GOOD RIDDANCE ............... 25. A TASTE FOR MURDER ............ 26. SWORN ENEMY ............. 27. AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY ............... 28. ATREYU .............. 29. SINKING SHIPS .............. 30. THE HOPE CONSPIRACY .............. 31. CRIME IN STEREO ............... 32. SAOSIN ............... 33. CARPATHIAN ............... 34. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE ................ 35. VERSE ................ 36. BETRAYED ............... 37. RUINER ............... 38. ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES ............... 39. SONIC YOUTH ............... 40. I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN ................ 41. TERROR ................. 42. PATH OF RESISTANCE .................. 43. THIS IS HELL ................. 44. THE WARRIORS ................. 45. TOOL ................. 46. MISERY SIGNALS ................. 47. HATEBREED .................. 48. SET YOUR GOALS ................. 49. NOFX -:- 50. LATTERMAN -:-......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ..........I have seen so many wicked bands, it would trip you out, especially for someone who lives in regional Australia. I'll name some: Toe to Toe, Horsell Common, Coldplay, PJ Harvey, Janes Addiction, Superheist, John Butler Trio, Powderfinger, 1200 Techniques, Machine Gun Fellatio, Kid Kenobi, Stronger than Hate, Grinspoon, Something for Kate, Not from there, Alien Ant Farm, Double Chamber, Giants of Science, Motormoth, Bexta, Groove Terminator, Foo Fighters, Give up the Ghost, Hatebreed, Soulfly, Thrice, Thursday, Poison the Well, The Deftones, Metallica, System of a Down, Mudvayne, Drowning Pool, Millencollin, Bloodduster, the Darkness, Black Eyed Peas, Chemical brothers, The Hope Conspiracy, Karnivool, Strung Out, Rise Against, Funeral for a Friend, Story of the year, Killswitch Engage, At the Drive in, Sparta, Mars Volta, Aphex Twin, the Crystal Method, The Dandy Warhols, Muse, Nofx, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Blink 182, Hole, Underworld, Fat boy slim, Kraftwerk, Sonic Animation, Carl Cox, Basement Jaxx, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ash, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Limp Bizkit, Amen, Placebo, Garbage, The Tea Party, Champion, Betrayed, Internal Affairs, Miles Away, the Lost Prophets, Queens of the Stoneage, The Butterfly Effect, Frenzel Rhomb, Super Jesus, The Nation Blue, End of Fashion, Katalyst, Hill top hoods, Resin Dogs, Eskimo Joe, The Living End, Irrelevant, Jebediah, Bodyjar, Beeverloop, TISM, The Fauves, Regurgiator, Silverchair, Magic Dirt, Parkway Drive, I killed the prom q.ueen, Day of contempt, Shihad, Away from Now, Spiderbait, 28 days, The Used, Hot Water Music.....Bands i want to see: 1) Raised Fist 2) The Smashing Pumpkins 3) Tool 4) Unearth 5) Rage against the Machine 6) Caliban 7) Comeback kid 8) Good Riddance 9) Stretch Armstrong 10) Death by Stereo 11) Ignite 12) The Darkest HourHere's a list of bands you should be listening to at the moment:::::::::::::: Much the Same, Set it Straight, Heavens, The Draft, Walls of Jericho, The Distance, Ryan's Hope, Path of Resistance, Moneen, Fullblast, The First Step, Carpathian, Guns Up!, Every New Day, Ruiner, The Loved Ones, The Hope for Change, Fail to Follow, Cannae, Caldwell, A Taste for Murder, Six Reasons to Kill, Seventh Star, A Perfect Murder, Caliban, Himsa, Age of Ruin, A Wilhelm Scream, Avenged Sevenfold, Alexisonfire, Alkaline Trio, Atreyu, Auto Pilot Off, As Friends Rust , 36 Crazy Fists, Bayside, Beloved, Break the Silence, Crime in Stereo, Only Crime, Death by Stereo, Outlie, Good Riddance, Strung Out, Nofx, Eighteen Visions, Killswitch Engage, Unearth, Thrice, Time in Malta, Underoath, Misery Signals, Sex Positions, Nine, Raised Fist, Rise Against, With Honor, Ensign, Stretch Armstrong, Throwdown, Thursday, Poison the Well, The Hope Conspiracy, Hot Water Music, Sick of it All, Most Precious Blood, Streetlight Manifesto, Dillenger Escape Plan, Sparta, Soulfly, Silent Drive, Ragmen, Funeral for a friend, Faded Grey, The Beautiful Mistake, the Promise, the Killing Tree, The Juliana Theory, The Butterfly Effect, Stampin Ground, Snapcase, Silent Majority, Ramallah, Ignite, Tool, Suicide Machines, System of a Down, Striking Distance, Strike Anywhere, Reach the sky, Nora, the Lawerence Arms, this Day Forward, Lonely Kings, Hatebreed, Bars, Coldwar, Haste the Day, The Haunted, It Dies Today, The Falling Cycle, Bury you dead, Mastodon, Dead to fall, Belvedere, Lamb of God, The Acacia Strain, These Arms are Snakes, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, F- Minus, E-Town Concrete, Cursive, My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights, Emery, Blood for Blood, A Death For Every Sin, Bad Religion, Blindside, Botch, Trial, Champion, Derringer, Dead Poetic, Keepsake, In Flames, Gyroscope, Full Blown Chaos, Evergreen Terrace, Die Young, Norma Jean, Pulley, Remembering Never, Saosin, Shai Hulud, Isis, Agnostic Front, The Burning Season, Freya, All That Remains, Diecast, Thousand Falling Skies, The Falcon, Underminded, Cast Aside, All Hell Breaks Loose, Rambo, Old Man Gloom, MDC, Municiple Waste, All Else Failed, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Black Maria, Between the Buried and Me, Buried Alive, Donnybrook, For The Love Of, Love Is Red, Freya, Mewithoutyou, Minus the Bear, Bear vs. Shark, Neurosis, Red Lights Flash, On Broken Wings, The Explosion, Lock and Key, Smoke or Fire, Nightrage, Gunmetal Grey, Battery, Circa Survive, Alove for enemies, Uniform of choice, Chain of Strength, Kids like us, Above This Fire, Trivium, The Showdown, Every New Day, Still Remains, No Trigger, Fordirelifesake, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Turmoil, Shora, Dredg, As Hope Dies, Symphony In Peril, Horse the Band, All Shall Perish, The Chariot, Advent, Authority Zero, RX Bandits, Righteous Jams, Where Eagles Dare, Crowpath, Bane, Orchid Anberlin, Closer than Kin, Emanuel, God Forbid, As Hope Dies, Mae, Modern Life is War, Program, Speak 714, xLooking Forwardx, Zao, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Queens of the Stoneage, Yesterdays Rising, Open Hand, No Innocent Victim, Blue Monday, The Esoteric, Dead Hearts, The Receiving End of Sirens, Casey Jones, Darkest Hour, Circa Survive, The Program, Strength in Numbers, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Donnybrook, Refused, 59 Times the Pain, Betrayed, This is Hell, Mi Amore, Life in Pictures, Light this City, Nerve Gas Tragedy, Marathon, Horace Pinker, Shook Ones, Lorene Drive, Achilles, Day of Contempt, Set your goals, Go it alone, Silverstein, The Autumn Offering, Zombie Apocalypse, Narziss, Black my Heart, Miles Away, Internal Affairs, Killing the Dream, Day of Contempt, Behind Crimson Eyes, When Tigers Fight, One Dead Three Wounded, Go it Alone, Latterman, Aiden, The Dandy Warhols, Def Leppard, Propagandi, Protest the Hero, Renee Heartfelt, Ringworm, Set Your Goals, Haste, He is Legend, Stick To Your Guns, Story of the Year, Devil Driver, Bleed the Dream, Born From Pain, Brutal Fight, Hamartia, Karnivool, Parkway Drive, War of Ages, Across Five Aprils, Allegiance, Arsis, Embrace the End
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Movies:

Fight Club, Star Wars, A Clockwork Orange, Aliens - Special Edition, Full Metal Jacket, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Closer, Lord of the Rings, Predator, Equilibrium, Ultraviolet, The Matrix, Minority Report, A Requiem for a dream, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Usual Suspects, Mulholland Drive, The Big Lebowski, Intolerable Cruelty, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smokin Barrels, Good Will Hunting, Die Hard, Sin City, American History X, Terminator 2, Saving Private Ryan, L.A. Confidential, The Crow, Platoon, True Lies, Natural Born Killers, True Romance, American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, Gladiator, Romper Stomper, Clerks(2), Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay n Silent Bob strike back, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Proposition, Terminator 4, True Lies 2, Die Hard 4, mainly arthouse and good directors films I'll watch....

Television:

Tv is fucked as a general rule but there are exceptions to every rule. Simpsons if it isn't a rerun i've seen ten thousand times. South Park, Myth busters, Oz, Pizza, Lost, Six Feet Under before it finished up, Curb your enthusiasm, Scrubs, FAMILY GUY!!! Any show that John Safran is in..... Big Brother I appreciate from an social anthropologist/ scientific standpoint. Rage on Friday night (all the new video clips) and sometimes Saturday depending.... but I am fucking religious with checking this website for the play list on a friday arvo: http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/default.htm And the NEWS everyday..... Yes, as soon as tvs are two way we'll be in 1984.....The rest of the time its tunage and the net..... Soulseek! get it! You'll thank me for it.

Books:

I prefer fantasy but not specifically would have to say that Stephen King (anything by him older the better esp The Bachman Books, The Stand (uncut), The Dark Tower), Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time), David Eddings (Elenium, tamuli, Belgariad, Malorean), Matthew Reilly (everything by him is brilliant action packed), JRR Tolken (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings), George RR Martin (Song of Ice and Fire rules), Sara Douglas, Terry Pranchett is ok, so is David Gemmel, and just finished 1984 by George Orwell (fascinating). So there are a couple of authors on my tip of the iceberg. Also check out the original James Bond books by Ian Flemming. Chuck Palunik (FUCKING FIGHT CLUB! PLUS NUMEROUS OTHER BRILLANT BOOKS LIKE CHOKE), David Sedaris, RA Salvatore, Brett Eastman Ellis, Hunter S Thompson.

Heroes:

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American politician and lecturer known for his adamant support of scientific and humanistic rationalismNothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men -- nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, quoted from the Address, Ingersoll the Magnificent, delivered by Joseph Lewis on August 11th 1954 dedicating, as a Public Memorial, the house in which Robert G. Ingersoll was born, Dresden, Yates County, in the state of New York. We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Thomas Paine" (1870) The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child" They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Limitations of Toleration" The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites -- and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Limitations of Toleration" The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Crumbling Creeds" We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Gods" (1872) Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Some Mistakes of Moses" We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and skins -- they devoured crusts, and gnawed bones. The day of Science dawned, and the luxuries of a century ago are the necessities of to-day. Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times. But above and over all this, is the development of mind. There is more of value in the brain of an average man of to-day -- of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four hundred years ago. These blessings did not fall from the skies. These benefits did not drop from the outstretched hands of priests. They were not found in cathedrals or behind altars -- neither were they searched for with holy candles. They were not discovered by the closed eyes of prayer, nor did they come in answer to superstitious supplication. They are the children of freedom, the gifts of reason, observation and experience -- and for them all, man is indebted to man. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "God In The Constitution" The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith." -- Robert Green Ingersoll, The Gods [Passage] The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith." What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? And yet, our entire system of religion is based upon that belief. The Jews pacified Jehovah with the blood of animals, and according to the Christian system, the blood of Jesus softened the heart of God a little, and rendered possible the salvation of a fortunate few. It is hard to conceive how the human mind can give assent to such terrible ideas, or how any sane man can read the Bible and still believe in the doctrine of inspiration. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, The Gods It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do. And yet there are some judges dishonest and cowardly enough to solemnly decide that this is a Christian country, and that our free institutions are based upon the infamous laws of Jehovah. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Individuality" (1873) Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Reply To The Indianapolis Clergy" The Iconoclast, Indianapolis, Indiana (1882)