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From: BEATLE
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 00:52:34
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Message Number 9902
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Speaking of 2 Live Crew, I think we should all celebrate the fact that
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they've been found not guilty in their obscenity trial. I would rather
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retch in a gas chamber than listen to their album, but I follow the idea
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that "I might not like what you say, but I will defend your right to say
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it."
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 00:55:34
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Message Number 9903
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> I'm willing to fight in the service of this country and some asshole
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> is out there trashing the symbol of it! That wouldn't bother you?
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Yeah, well, I go to school and get excellent grades and all the idiots
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with shitferbrains get everything.
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Actually, I can see your point, but it takes all sorts to make up a
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world (now isn't that a cliche if ya ever heard one?). We happen to have
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those who don't like something about the government. Ifthe whole reason
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for having the government like it is, why should we keep those from not
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liking it. Those who are degrading it only want to change it.
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 01:00:16
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Message Number 9904
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> Oh, I see. You are an Iraqi sympathiser, is that it? And I bet you
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> cheered when Kohmomeni took over the embassy...
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Ummmm, did you read the same message? I looked back at Spellwind's
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message and got the impression that the Iraqi people aren't "less than
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human" because of the corrupt ones...
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 01:03:32
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Message Number 9905
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> Don't trash my flag...
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Okay, we'll get someone else's. Like you said, I wouldn't do anything
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that hurts someone. Burning a flag doesn't hurt anyone, and if anything,
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it's only going to affect someone else's opinions. Maybe the burner will
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have second thoughts about it later. But it doesn't hurt anyone.
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From: BEATLE
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To: BURNEY
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Subject: STAR TREK
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 01:06:27
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Message Number 9906
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> I cannot see McCoy (in The Next Generation)...
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Welp, he WAS on the show, andDoctor Pulaski was about as close to a
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female McCoy as you can get without the Real McCoy.
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From: BEATLE
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To: BURNEY
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 01:08:14
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Message Number 9907
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> It was a matter of choice.
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Which sounds fine to me. Now, it's forced. Every day we do it. The
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kids aren't going to learn respect by being forced to say a pledge every
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morning. The same people who think flag burning is wrong (not all, but
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some) probably came along and said "They HAVE to say this every day or
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it's disrespectful to our country!!!"
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From: BEATLE
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To: CORWYN
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Subject: CAFFINE
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 01:23:45
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Message Number 9910
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> Still drunk at 7:25am, and proud of it!
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I generally don't compliment those who get drunk, but if you're drunk
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and can still be literate and appreciate John Lennon, then that's gotta
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be something to admire.
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 01:25:58
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Message Number 9911
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>...ridding the country of their parasitic influence could only benefit
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> this country.
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HOW? I'd like to know.
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From: BEATLE
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To: ANYONE WHO CARES
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Subject: weirdness
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 01:34:52
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Message Number 9912
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Anyone seen the ad campaign on TV for the video release of "The Rocky
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Horror Picture Show"? I've heard alot about the film, and I've read
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(most of) the script, but I guess it is much weirder than I've led
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myself to believe. Welp, if anyone gets a copy of it, maybe someone
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would be interested in getting some people together and putting the
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script online to some use and using the "additions"... I've built up
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some strange interest in that, and I have no idea why. Guess it's just
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because it's different.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: CORWYN
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Subject: The Shadow
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 10:40:54
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Message Number 9915
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Hey, Corwyn! Welcome back! Where the heck are you nowadays? And
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what ya been doing? Its awfully quiet at N.C. without a resident
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Amberite...
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: CORWYN
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 10:43:07
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Message Number 9916
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Aha! I think I finally understand the Specialist's position! You
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CAN'T burn the United States if you disagree with it -- you can't
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destroy it. But, you can destroy the thing which has become closest
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(in the minds of people) to it -- the symbol representing the U.S.
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In his mind, those that destroy the symbol are those that want to
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destroy the nation as a whole.
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Personally, I kind of doubt that logic. The last time I checked,
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most of those flag burners only wanted to make major changes in the
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government. Not destroy it entirely.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 10:47:56
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Message Number 9917
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Actually, Specialist -- I DO know many people who have left the U.S.
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(and changed citizenship) because they so strongly disagreed with
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the policies of the U.S. And not one of them has been less than a
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literate, interesting person who is quite knowledgable of the world
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situation -- exactly the kind of person I'd WANT as a citizen of my
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country.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: DRAGONFLY
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 10:53:18
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Message Number 9918
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DF>But, personally, I felt sorry when he re-started the government.
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AMEN! Kill the Federal government!
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: MAX
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Subject: Altr/Rlty
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 16:53:54
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Message Number 9920
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Hmmm. Could it be that I *do* have a chip on my shoulder? Could it
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be that I'm always insulting, even if someone offers some friendly,
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helpfull advice? Could it be that I actually *do* percieve everything
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as an attack when people don't agree with me?
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Could it?
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....nahhhhh.....
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.s
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Armag.
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 16:57:31
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Message Number 9921
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B> I'm one of those geeks that everyone comes to when they don't
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B> know what they are doing in school.
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Ah, but in that case, you aren't a geek (per se)...just a brain. Brains
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have redeeming values.
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People actually like brains...they come in handy.
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(I probably shouldn't have said that...someone'll use it as a cheap
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shot, now. That's predictable.)
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 17:01:19
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Message Number 9922
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No, I never saw it [Fourth...July] but if you believe I should see it
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so you can make a point, I'll make an effort....
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 17:03:10
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Message Number 9923
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B>So, in other words, if you like the country, tell everyone, andif
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B>you don't, shut up??
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No, no...just it goes with that saying, if you don't have something
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nice to say about someone [thing] then don't say anything. Just a
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common courtesy.
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For instance, I'm not particularly fond of bowling, but I don't go
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around saying things like, "Bowling is a game for morons, and it's
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a really stupid sport." No, I keep my mouth shut, unless someone
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asks me and *then* I *might* say something like that (if I was in
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a particularly nasty mood). More likely, I would simply respond in a
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mild negative manner.
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But, I don't go around burning down bowling places!
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And the thing we are talking about here has a lot more importance
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(symbolically) than a bowling alley!
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: DRAGONFLY
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Subject: Bashing Homos
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 17:09:13
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Message Number 9924
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Bash the Homos is a registered tradmark of Manasota Specialty. All
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rights reserved, Copyright 1989, Manasota Specialty.
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And yes, you're darn right I'm proud of that line.
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Excuse me. It's just that I'm too arrogant for my own good.
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 17:17:13
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Message Number 9926
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B>Those who are degrading it only want to change it.
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You say you want a revolution, well, you know...
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we all want to change the world.
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There's better ways to change things than by burning flags.
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But when you talk about destruction,
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don't you know that you can count me out.
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 17:26:57
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Message Number 9927
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B>The same people who think flag burning is wrong (not all but some)
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B>probably came along and said, "They HAVE to say this every day or
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B>it's disrespectful to our country!!"
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BWEEP! BWEEP! BWEEP! NS ALERT! NS ALERT!
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"*Attention, there has been a non sequitur occurence. Attention...*"
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As a matter of fact, I'm sure that rule was enacted when people actuall
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still had *respect* for this country. These days, people don't even
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take thier HAT off for the flag any more...much less salute or cover
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thier hearts when it goes past. Alll guestures of respect...just as
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burning it is a BLATANT guesture of disrespect.
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Grrr...I still think they should be shot on sight....grrrr.
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 17:39:30
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Message Number 9930
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Right!...Oh, wait. No, no, nononono.
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Hmmm. Hey, I just had a radical thought! Suppose I went out and
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burned the flag so I could get a law passed against flag buners?
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No, I'd probably be the first one arrested....shit.
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From: THE SPECIALIST
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 17:41:16
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Message Number 9931
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Great. Go buy a large island and call it Latevaria. Then invite all
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those dicontents. Offer free immigration! I'll help 'em pack.
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From: RUFUS
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 18:41:26
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Message Number 9933
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>BWEEP! BWEEP! BWEEP! NS ALERT! NS ALERT!
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Prepare for emergency saucer seperation and engage self-destruct
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sequence.
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Sorry, I just had this amazing urge to type that.
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From: RUFUS
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 18:44:07
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Message Number 9934
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>Hmmm. Where is this [echo]? I'll meet the "Pathetic One" there.
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You two should really save up your anger for the next Paintball game
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(which is scheduled for the 11th). I've been saving up all my anger for
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the past 3-4 months, and when I vent it, I'm guessing there'll be a
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small explosion, wiping out a few city blocks.
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|Don't pay any attention to the nice Rufus, he hasn't had his medication
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|today.
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 19:31:13
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Message Number 9936
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Well, I don't know what you'd think of the movie, but the character at
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the beginning reminds me a lot of you. He says "America: Love it or
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leave it" and he despises people who burn the flag. It's a very good
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movie.
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Also, if you wait a while, you can see something similar to it on CBS.
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They've got the network rights (instead of first-run cable) to show it,
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and of course it will be edited. Unfortunately, it's not going to come
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close to the film I saw when edited for TV>
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 19:34:47
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Message Number 9937
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> And the thing we are talking about here has a lot more importance than
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> a bowling alley!
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Absolutely true, but I don't get /your/ metaphor this time. We don't
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have people speaking out against bowling because bowling alleys are not
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like the government. I was thinking baseball would be more like the
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government. Now don't tell me that people keep their mouths shut there
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when they don't like something.
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 19:37:33
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Message Number 9938
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> But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count
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> me out.
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Bad idea to quote that. There's only one version of Revolution that
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says that. When they performed it on TV, they said "in." and they also
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said "in" on the second (first actually) on the White Album.
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By the way, you've been really calm here. I was expecting a big flame
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when I called back. Congrats.
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 19:40:10
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Message Number 9939
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> much less salute or cover their hearts....
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Well, it might make you feel better to know that if I was wearing a
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hat, I would take it off when saluting the flag. I must be one of the
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few at school who don't want to rush through the pledge of allegiance.
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Even my teacher, who's in the National Guard, runs though it quickly
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(and sometimes incompletely).
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From: BEATLE
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 19:43:12
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Message Number 9940
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>...the ones who are right and the ones who are...pathetic.
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> Also, it would settle their problem...they'd no longer have to
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> complain about the country they lived it...
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No, they wouldn't, but /I/ would!! If they're complaining about the
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country, silencing them would be stupid. You're going to stir up more
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trouble that way. And to just say "those who are right and those who are
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pathetic" is REALLY out of line, since there is no "right" or "wrong",
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it all depends on what you think. You're not totally wrong. Sure, doing
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something about flag burners would be right to some extent, but it would
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go against what the country stands for.
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Someone let me know if I'm wrong, but does it seem the dark and light
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extremes have been mentioned in these arguments and not the shades of
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grey??
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From: RUFUS
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: FLAG BURNING
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 20:09:49
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Message Number 9941
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Have you considered starting a 1-900 number for Beatles Trivia? "Call
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now and find out which Beatle actually liked steamed squash."
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 21:14:51
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Message Number 9943
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Why is it when I say something, I'm considered shit, but when someone
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else says it in different wording, it's three cheers?
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Troi
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 21:16:41
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Message Number 9944
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Marina Sirtis (AKA: Troi) would be good though.
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: DRAGONFLY
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Subject: ST:TNG
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 21:19:21
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Message Number 9946
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Say what? Ares? HAHAHA! Greek religion allowed for multiple
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(Hmm how do I phrase this?) God's to exist, basically being the same.
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But aren't they all. I am in contempt for /Almost/ every male god,
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Save Janicot and his multiples...
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: DRAGONFLY
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Subject: Christian affai
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 21:23:30
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Message Number 9947
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D) Billion people feel or have felt it makes sense.....
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Actually, either they never thought to question it (Lightning bolt
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theory) or they were /brainwashed/ since early childhood as most of
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/them/ are and stood ignorantly by their hammered in beliefs...
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: DRAGONFLY
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Subject: Flag burning
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 21:26:28
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Message Number 9948
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WOAH! Could it be that Turtle has found a worthy adversary?
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From: SPELLWIND
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Add another
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Date & Time: 10/21/90 21:36:47
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Message Number 9950
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I think he was tought to think that way in subliminal messages in
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thaining films.....in the military...
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From: DRAGONFLY
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To: THE SPECIALIST
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Subject: Altr/Rlty
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Date & Time: 10/22/90 02:16:15
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Message Number 9952
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>Could it be that I actually *do* perceive everything as an attack
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>when people don't agree with me?
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Don't worry. You're not the only one on this board that has that
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problem.
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/Dragonfly/
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||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: FLAG BURNING
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 02:18:28
|
||
Message Number 9953
|
||
|
||
Aha! I think we have something here! Acording to your own words, we
|
||
wouldn't waste our breaths about trivial faults, such as bowling. Also,
|
||
you've admitted that countries are more important than bowling alleys.
|
||
Isn't it logical to spend more time trying to change important things
|
||
than it is to change unimportant things?
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: ST:TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 02:29:21
|
||
Message Number 9954
|
||
|
||
My point was, my dear Spellwind, that it seemed you were a bit
|
||
warlike in your attacks yourself. Especially against Christians.
|
||
I'd also brush up on my Greek mythology. Calling Pan and Ares
|
||
"basically the same" gods is unthinkable.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 02:33:03
|
||
Message Number 9955
|
||
|
||
Neither your lightning bolt theory nor your brainwashing theory
|
||
explains how Christianity first grew into the movement it became.
|
||
Also, are you really saying that human nature was so different in
|
||
those times that they didn't question the Church?
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Flag burning
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 02:40:56
|
||
Message Number 9956
|
||
|
||
As far as I know, I'm not anyone's adversary on this board. I represent
|
||
no one's views but my own.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: FLAG BURNING
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 18:26:54
|
||
Message Number 9958
|
||
|
||
> Have you considered starting a 1-900 number for Beatles Trivia?
|
||
|
||
No, but that may actually be a good idea to help me with my money
|
||
crunch.
|
||
|
||
Actually, I don't think any of them liked steamed squash, but contrary
|
||
to popular belief, they don't like jelly babies.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Add another
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 18:30:16
|
||
Message Number 9960
|
||
|
||
> Why is it when I say something, I'm considered shit, but when someone
|
||
> else says it in different wording, it's three cheers?
|
||
|
||
I dunno. Can you expand on that? (Like telling me what you said that's
|
||
been reworded?)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: stuff
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 18:31:38
|
||
Message Number 9961
|
||
|
||
Forget it dude.
|
||
|
||
Okay.. darn. I KNEW I should have taken better care of it. Are you
|
||
still interested in some used (ie opened) Star Wars items? If you can
|
||
think of some items (ie name them) I'll let ya know i I'll sell them.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 18:34:54
|
||
Message Number 9962
|
||
|
||
>..are you really saying that human nature was so different in those
|
||
> times that they didn't question the Church?
|
||
|
||
I hope he isn't. We just read today about the orgins of Christianity
|
||
in the World History book, and it certainly wasn't like that.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: FLAG BURNING
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 19:11:08
|
||
Message Number 9963
|
||
|
||
>...but contrary to popular belief, they don't like jelly babies.
|
||
|
||
What? WHAT!? After all these years, I thought they loved jelly babies.
|
||
Thanks for setting me straight on that one. (said with /slight/ sarcasm)
|
||
|
||
"No, I'm their biggest fan. I have all four Beatles, their personal
|
||
interview cassettes, the new Beatles street wear dolls, the stage, and
|
||
the keen Beatle's phone."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: ST:TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 19:18:57
|
||
Message Number 9964
|
||
|
||
I compare Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades to Ares....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 19:20:28
|
||
Message Number 9965
|
||
|
||
|
||
They changed from fear. And as a matter of fact, I should say before
|
||
I answer that is that human nature shouldn't be an issue. Human nature
|
||
is the same for everyone, we all hold consistent good and evil...
|
||
Not equal, mind you, consistent.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 19:24:20
|
||
Message Number 9966
|
||
|
||
Get this, fearing one religion, therefore changing to the same relig-
|
||
ion under a different form...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christianity
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 19:38:06
|
||
Message Number 9967
|
||
|
||
The original convertees changed from fear? Of what or of whom? As far as
|
||
I recall, the Roman Empire was not very tolerant of the early
|
||
Christians. If they would have been fearful, who would they have feared
|
||
more: the powerful Roman Empire, or the fledgling Church?
|
||
|
||
I don't want to debate your second point ("Human nature is the same
|
||
for everyone") until I know what you mean by human nature.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 19:41:08
|
||
Message Number 9968
|
||
|
||
>Fearing one religion, therefore changing to the same religion under
|
||
>a different form...
|
||
|
||
What do you mean by that comment? Changing from which religion to
|
||
which religion, precisely? Are we even still dealing with Christianity?
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 21:32:35
|
||
Message Number 9969
|
||
|
||
Changing from the male-influenced rule (Jupiter) to God.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: STINKIN MARINES
|
||
Subject: You HOSERS
|
||
Date & Time: 10/22/90 21:33:45
|
||
Message Number 9970
|
||
|
||
|
||
Here's someone who belongs at the top of the list of:
|
||
THOSE WHO NEED TO BE SHOT
|
||
|
||
Out of Savage Sword of Conan, Ish 179
|
||
|
||
Whining wenches,
|
||
This is in response to the harpy Eileen
|
||
Tronolone who obviously is spending too
|
||
much time in that beer tent in the Rhein.
|
||
Wenches should be "obedient" and I'm
|
||
glad we have a /real/ man like Conan to put
|
||
wenches in their proper /submissive/ place.
|
||
It's sad this world has too many jelly-
|
||
spined men allowing these she-dogs to run
|
||
them over.
|
||
Good thing Crom's blessings are shower-
|
||
ing over the U.S. Marine Corps (the last breed
|
||
of real men).
|
||
You're right, Eileen. Red Sonja is worthy
|
||
of Conan but /no wanch/ in this era /ever/ will be.
|
||
Till Conan joins the Air Force (civilians in
|
||
uniforn), make mine Marvel!
|
||
Semper fi'!
|
||
Lcpl E.M. Chasco J.R.
|
||
U.S. Marine
|
||
P.O. Box 238
|
||
F.P.O. Seattle, WA98764
|
||
|
||
This shithead should be executed, and I'd pull the switch.
|
||
Tell me, do ALL Marines think like this scumbag?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: FLAG BURNING
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:32:52
|
||
Message Number 9973
|
||
|
||
>I bunch flag-burners in one category...
|
||
|
||
Typical. ( (c) 1990 The Specialist)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: MMA
|
||
Subject: Survival in BBS
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:38:33
|
||
Message Number 9976
|
||
|
||
>I've heard about your VW Bug. I'd like a description of it.
|
||
|
||
Okay. It's a '72 Baja bug (engine sticks out the back, with a roll
|
||
cage around it), grey with black fenders and swords on the sides,
|
||
with two fog lights on the roof (like Mickey Mouse ears) and two on
|
||
the bumper and a floodlight on the back. The hood is silver, and it
|
||
comes complete with digital tach, digital clock, and James Bond
|
||
control system that operates the various weird accessories and whatnot.
|
||
Thje engine itself has a stinger exhaust that comes out /sideways/;
|
||
it's kinda odd-looking. What it doesn't have, sadly, is a battery
|
||
that works and an operational fourth gear--problems that a hundred
|
||
bucks or so could fix, bit it's a hundred bucks I don't have.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CORWYN
|
||
Subject: Add another
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:46:02
|
||
Message Number 9977
|
||
|
||
Speaking of burning crosses on lawns, did you see where David Duke
|
||
actually got defeated in Louisiana's Senatorial race--but only just,
|
||
and only after all the other Republican candidates dropped out and
|
||
endorsed the Democratic candidates? Scary stuff. Had the other
|
||
Republican stayed in, he could have split the non-Duke vote enough
|
||
that that asshole might've gotten in...yuck! And I've actually
|
||
talked to people who claim racism isn't a real problem in this
|
||
country any more...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Toxic Shock
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:48:38
|
||
Message Number 9978
|
||
|
||
>Did I get it right Master Turtle?
|
||
|
||
Yep, you got it. You are learning, grasshopper.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: Add another
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:49:40
|
||
Message Number 9979
|
||
|
||
We certainly don't need the flag burners, and yes, we could do well
|
||
without them, but I think Corwyn's point in the analogy was that if
|
||
you try to get rid of (jail, shoot) them you'll end up doing yourself
|
||
harm. Freedom doesn't work if you love, cherish, and protect it right
|
||
out of existance.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Armag.
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:53:03
|
||
Message Number 9980
|
||
|
||
>I'm one of those geeks that everyone comes to when they don't know
|
||
>what they are doing in school.
|
||
|
||
I used to be one of those! I charged people money. Got fifty bucks for
|
||
writing some guy's program once...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Flags & You
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:54:15
|
||
Message Number 9981
|
||
|
||
>I don't think flag burners are showing disrespect...
|
||
|
||
Yes, they are. There /are/ respectful ways to criticise one's country
|
||
or one's social or political system. Burning the flag is the equivalent
|
||
of telling someone "You really suck sheep, you slimy disgusting excuse
|
||
for a wart on a gopher's ass" rather than "You know, I don't believe
|
||
you are correct by doing X, Y, and Z."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: George & Congre
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 15:58:10
|
||
Message Number 9982
|
||
|
||
>But, personally, I felt sorry when he re-started the government.
|
||
|
||
Oh, I dunno. Therere are parts of the government that could stand
|
||
to be shut down permamently, but I'd like it if we kept the postal
|
||
service, the Department of Transportation, and the FDA, since
|
||
I kinda like to mail things, drive, and eat. How 'bout a *selective*
|
||
shutdown?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:01:42
|
||
Message Number 9983
|
||
|
||
Christianity is not alone in believing that the diety "saves" his
|
||
worshippers by either leaving or dying--but Christianity is the only
|
||
one I can think of where the diety dies by being murdered by the people
|
||
who are sinning against him in the first place. Notice that I only
|
||
referred to Christianity as "slightly silly;" the entire New Age
|
||
movement qualifies as "extremely silly"... I would still maintain that
|
||
historically Christianity has done more harm than not. Christianity
|
||
brought us the burning of the library at Alexandria, the Spanish
|
||
Inquisitions, the Crusades (a total unmitigated disaster for most
|
||
of Europe), and an entire period in history we now know as the Dark
|
||
Ages. Christianity stands squarely opposed to reason and science--they
|
||
excommunicated Galileo seven hundred years ago, and warned Dr. Stephen
|
||
Hawking to stop research into the Big Bang theory two years ago (on
|
||
the grounds, get this, that the beginning of the Universe is "not for
|
||
man to know"). Even Islam, ofr all its bad press in the Western world,
|
||
is not that reactionary; Muslim societies invented astronomy, higher
|
||
mathematics, and history, and during the period Christianity was
|
||
"maintaining order" in Europe most of the Middle East was united under
|
||
the Persain Empire in a period noted both for its stability AND for
|
||
its tolerance of other cultures and other faiths (something you'd
|
||
be hard-pressed to say about Europe during the same period, no matter
|
||
how much you value "stability"). On the whole, Christianity doesn't
|
||
strike me in any way as having /anything/ that sets it apart from any
|
||
of a hundred other religions, other than its size 8which is hardly
|
||
a compelling argument in favor of it), and actually actively UNimpresses
|
||
me with its history--you'd think that the living religion of the God of
|
||
Love wouldn't be noteworthy primarily for the number of people that
|
||
it's killed and the amount of suffering that it has caused.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Altr/Rlty
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:14:09
|
||
Message Number 9984
|
||
|
||
I don't think that anyone was genuinely proposing that all people
|
||
have the right to do anything at any time...although too often that
|
||
argument gets used to defend a proposition that undesirable activity
|
||
X should be banned "because you can't let people do /whatever/ they
|
||
want; after all, do you think people should be allowed to run
|
||
around killing each other?" and that's a line of argument (to use
|
||
the term loosely) I find very distressing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: 2 Live Crew
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:16:35
|
||
Message Number 9985
|
||
|
||
Yes! I was absolutely overjoyed when I heard about their acquittal!
|
||
I'm not especially fond of living in a society that features the
|
||
2 Live Crew's "music" (to use another term somewhat loosely), but
|
||
I loathe the idea of living in a society that champions censorship
|
||
for /any/ reason.
|
||
|
||
You know, it really kind of pisses me off that I have to defend the
|
||
2 Live Crew. These jokers make me sick; their efforts at music are
|
||
rather pathetic, they are patently incapable of being anything other
|
||
than insufferably self-serving, and in general I'd rather be gored
|
||
to death by wild oxen than be forced to listen to "Me So Horny" one
|
||
more time. On the other hand, I'm not going to make everyone else
|
||
assume my taste in music, and it pisses me off *immensely* that some
|
||
arrogant, self-righteous hypocrite somewhere has the gall to tell me
|
||
that I can't listen to whatever I damn well want to. So I end up
|
||
defending the indefensible against the intolerable...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: CAFFINE
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:23:14
|
||
Message Number 9986
|
||
|
||
Hey, *I'm* literate and I like to get blasted off my ass every now and
|
||
then! (And end up with furry art on my back...it's a long story...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: weirdness
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:24:31
|
||
Message Number 9987
|
||
|
||
BEATLE!!! DUDE!!! The script for the Rocky Horror Picture Show has
|
||
been online and available for downloading here on A/R for about the
|
||
last eight months or so!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Add another
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:33:06
|
||
Message Number 9988
|
||
|
||
>Why is it when I say something, I'm considered shit, but when someone
|
||
>else says it in different wording, it's three cheers?
|
||
|
||
Because you end up saying it with phrases like "you paramilitary
|
||
freak," which gets the idea across but also pisses off your opponent.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:34:59
|
||
Message Number 9989
|
||
|
||
>...they were /brainwashed/ since early childhood as most of /them/
|
||
>are and stood ignorantly by their hammered in beliefs...
|
||
|
||
That7s the sort of thing I'm talking about. You do have a valid point:
|
||
most people who profess a religion are professing the one they were
|
||
raised with, and relatively few people of *ANY* religion have either
|
||
thought objectively about their beliefs or even bothered to become
|
||
acquainted with other belief systems before deciding that they have
|
||
The Truth. However, phrasing it the way you did kind of clouds your
|
||
point with emotionally-charged language, and it's not likely to
|
||
make your opponent consider your point objectively...
|
||
|
||
(Yeah, I know, I'm a fine one to be lecturing about that since I have
|
||
the same habit myself...but at least I can recognize it when I'm
|
||
doing it... :) )
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:39:35
|
||
Message Number 9990
|
||
|
||
Human nature being what it is, 90% of the human beings on the planet
|
||
aren't going to question /any/ church. As for the manner in which
|
||
Christianity started--hey, it wouldn't be the first time a single
|
||
intelligent, highly charismatic individual built an enormous movement
|
||
around himself. Only difference between Jesus and any of a number of
|
||
others was (a) Jesus was also a very wise man and (b) he had good
|
||
intentions.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: You HOSERS
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 16:44:16
|
||
Message Number 9991
|
||
|
||
>Tell me, do ALL Marines think like this scumbag?
|
||
|
||
No. Not all Marines are chauvanists, and not all chauvanists are
|
||
Marines. What's your point? Also, are you really advocating executing
|
||
people for holding opinions that differ from yours??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Toxic Shock
|
||
Date & Time: 10/23/90 18:17:57
|
||
Message Number 9992
|
||
|
||
>Yep, you got it. You are learning, grasshopper.
|
||
|
||
But only when I walk on rice paper without leaving a mark...oops...wrong
|
||
show. Damn.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 00:08:33
|
||
Message Number 9993
|
||
|
||
>Changing from the male-influenced rule (Jupiter) to God.
|
||
|
||
You've left me even more confused. Are you seriously saying that
|
||
all male-influenced rules (let alone simply all male rules!) are
|
||
virtually identical? Have all male rulers throughout history been
|
||
almost identical? Or, better yet, have all rulers that have been
|
||
influenced by males (whether they be male or not) been virtually
|
||
identical? The answer seems obvious.
|
||
|
||
Even in religions, male-influenced religions are not the same.
|
||
Buddhism is not Islam; Taoism is not Stoicism. Calling the worship
|
||
of Jupiter nearly the same as the worship of Christ is, well,
|
||
unusual and anachronistic.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: David Duke
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 00:19:44
|
||
Message Number 9994
|
||
|
||
Sadly, there still exists a lot of racism in the world. People
|
||
are still afraid of anyone who is different than they. People prefer
|
||
their cozy, warm burrows to the challenges of reality; people look
|
||
at the differences on the outside without caring about the similarities
|
||
on the inside. But a world with everything the same would bore, and
|
||
a world with no challenges would stagnate. Our greatest enemy is
|
||
ourselves, and our fears at the base of our hearts.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Georgie
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 00:26:10
|
||
Message Number 9995
|
||
|
||
>...I'd like it if we kept the postal service, the Department of
|
||
>Transportation, and the FDA, since I kinda like to mail things,
|
||
>drive, and eat.
|
||
|
||
Would all cars stop running if the Department of Transportation
|
||
shut down? Would we lose our stomachs if the FDA closed? Neither of
|
||
those government agencies produce the cars we drive or the food we
|
||
eat; they only regulate it.
|
||
If the Federal government shut down completely and permanently, we'd
|
||
have some problems (Sinclair's The Jungle comes to mind), but not
|
||
insurmountable ones. Other non-government watchdog agencies would
|
||
come into existence to watch over our food and autos. Airlines would
|
||
begin to pay for the control tower if they had to.
|
||
|
||
Granted. There would be a lot of shifting and changing if the
|
||
Federal government closed down permanently. And I'm not saying it
|
||
would be a good thing. (I would miss the Post Office as well! Could
|
||
it survive without a Federal government constantly pumping money
|
||
into it?) But -- mankind would survive without the Federal government.
|
||
|
||
(The above arguments do not apply to state governments. We need
|
||
to keep our police forces.)
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 00:37:42
|
||
Message Number 9996
|
||
|
||
Another point-by-point discussion.
|
||
|
||
T> Christianity is not alone in believing that the deity "saves" the
|
||
T> worshippers by leaving or dying.
|
||
|
||
Granted.
|
||
|
||
T> ...but Christianity is the only one I can think of where the deity
|
||
T> dies by being murderer by the people who are sinning against him
|
||
T> in the first place.
|
||
|
||
Christianity is also the only religion I can think of which adds
|
||
one more piece of guilt: it claims that any sin committed is also
|
||
against God. Because of its broad definition of sin, everyone is a
|
||
sinner. By Christianity's own logic, if Christ were killed, He must
|
||
have been killed by someone who was sinning against him.
|
||
|
||
T> I would still maintain that Christianity has done more harm than
|
||
T> not. Christianity has brought us the burning of the library of
|
||
T> Alexandria...
|
||
|
||
There haven't been revolutionary Muslims? Indeed, I recall that at
|
||
least one group of Muslims had the belief about books "If it contradicts
|
||
the Koran, it's heresy and should be burned. If it doesn't contradict
|
||
the Koran, it's unnecessary and should be burned." If you're interested,
|
||
I'll find where I got that from.
|
||
|
||
T> the Spanish Inquisitions...
|
||
|
||
That, I agree, was a blotch against Europe for the first part of it.
|
||
It did a lot of evil in the Americas as well, but it did at least a
|
||
smidgeon of good.
|
||
|
||
T> the Crusades (a total, unmitigated disaster for most of Europe)
|
||
|
||
Wait! I wouldn't claim that. Certainly, some of the Crusades were
|
||
hideously cruel, especially the so-called "Children's Crusade." But
|
||
without the Crusades, Europe would have remained the closed world
|
||
it was during the Dark Ages, with little interaction with the Arab
|
||
world or the world of the Orient. It broke Europe of its provincial
|
||
mentality, and they began to create the mindset which flourished in
|
||
the Rennaisance. They introduced Europe to new and old ideas, and
|
||
began to break the overwhelming power of the Church.
|
||
(Continued next message.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 00:55:24
|
||
Message Number 9997
|
||
|
||
T> ...and an entire period we now know as the Dark Ages.
|
||
|
||
Again, I disagree with your historical analysis. It seems to me
|
||
that Christianity was not the cause of the Dark Ages; it merely filled
|
||
the vacuum left by the destruction of the Roman Empire. No power
|
||
existed at the time that was strong enough to fill the shoes of the
|
||
Empire, so the Church tried to create a spiritual empire. Without
|
||
the Christian church, it is quite possible that the Dark Ages would
|
||
have been even darker.
|
||
|
||
T> Christianity stands squarely opposed to reason and science.
|
||
|
||
I disagree strongly with the first statement, but I agree with the
|
||
second. Christianity has never opposed reason. One of the greater
|
||
things to emerge from the Dark Ages was the entire system of logic
|
||
we now use, the so-called "classical logic." However, their premises
|
||
are not and have not been based on science, so they disagree strongly
|
||
with science.
|
||
|
||
>Even Islam, for all its bad press in the Western world, is not that
|
||
>reactionary. Muslim societies invented astonomy, higher mathematics,
|
||
>and history...
|
||
|
||
Astronomy was invented well before the Roman Empire, in Persia, I
|
||
believe. Well before the Prophet came out of Medina. History has
|
||
existed nearly as long as writing has existed: indeed, much of the
|
||
Old Testament could be considered folk history. Higher mathematics
|
||
was also created along similar lines in China.
|
||
|
||
>On the whole, Christianity doesn't have anything which would strike me
|
||
>as particularly noteworthy, except for its size...
|
||
|
||
I won't argue in matters of taste.
|
||
|
||
>...you'd think that the living religion of the God of Love wouldn't
|
||
>be noteworthy for the number of people it's killed and the amount
|
||
>of suffering it's caused.
|
||
|
||
Again, I disagree that's what Christianity is noted for. But, in the
|
||
annals of human record, suffering and death is much more interesting
|
||
and much more likely to be recorded than life and love.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Altr/Rlty
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 01:11:32
|
||
Message Number 9998
|
||
|
||
Actually, you have my argument there, but backwards. Let me
|
||
rephrase it better. One of your users (who has since recanted) said
|
||
something like, "I think people should be allowed to do what they
|
||
want to do." I then gave extreme examples of what that statement is
|
||
saying: if someone wants to murder another, should s/he be allowed
|
||
to do it? Most people -- including him -- said no, that should not
|
||
be allowed. Therefore, that idea wasn't a very good one.
|
||
|
||
I never have argued for any activity X that if X were permissable,
|
||
then people would also feel they have the right to murder others.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 01:20:06
|
||
Message Number 9999
|
||
|
||
>Human nature being what it is, 90% of the human beings on the planet
|
||
>aren't going to question /any/ church.
|
||
|
||
Unfortunately, all too true. And those who join new religions don't
|
||
always do so from the best of intentions.
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DRAGONFLY
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Message #10,000
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 01:26:14
|
||
Message Number 10000
|
||
|
||
By the way, what's my prize for writing message 10,000?
|
||
/Dragonfly/
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: stuff
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 02:38:12
|
||
Message Number 10001
|
||
|
||
Do you have the whole set? My sister had all the figures, and ships, it
|
||
was neat. We played with the figures all the time. We even had the
|
||
Darth Vader case. But they are all gone now. They were sold at a yard
|
||
sale before moving to Ft. Myers. If I recall they were almost given
|
||
away.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: FLAG BURNING
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 06:43:09
|
||
Message Number 10002
|
||
|
||
> "No, I'm their biggest fan...
|
||
|
||
Alight. That's where I draw the line. When you start inseriting the
|
||
name Beatles in where New Kids went, then you're asking for it (what it
|
||
is, I don't know)... Besides, the Beatles dolls didn't come along until
|
||
a few years back. In the sixties there were inflatable Beatles.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Armag.
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 06:48:43
|
||
Message Number 10003
|
||
|
||
> I charged people money.
|
||
|
||
Geesssh. I'm too moral for that (and stupid, in one sense)... I
|
||
probably should charge money for that. Then I won't always be broke :)
|
||
|
||
I did learn something yesterday, though. You can't hook an IBM VGA
|
||
monitor to a Tandy 1000 SL...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: CAFFINE
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 06:55:06
|
||
Message Number 10004
|
||
|
||
Hey, *I'm* literate and I like to get blasted off my ass every now and
|
||
> then!
|
||
|
||
Well, I havene't had a chance to see you be literate after being
|
||
blasted off your ass.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: weirdness
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 06:56:40
|
||
Message Number 10005
|
||
|
||
> BEATLE!!! DUDE!!!
|
||
|
||
TURTLE!!! DUDE!!! I downloaded the script about that long ago! I wrote
|
||
that message so that possibly it could be put to /use/... you know, all
|
||
those neat little things the people get to do. And it's not very likely
|
||
I'm going to get to (or want to) show up at Sarasota Square Mall to see
|
||
it in the near future....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: stuff
|
||
Date & Time: 10/24/90 07:05:48
|
||
Message Number 10006
|
||
|
||
> Do you have the whole set?
|
||
|
||
No, but I've got quite a bit. OUt of a total of about 95 figures
|
||
created, I've got about 86/88 of them. I have the Darth Vader case and a
|
||
mess of odd playsets and ships.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Barb's
|
||
Date & Time: 10/25/90 21:30:34
|
||
Message Number 10009
|
||
|
||
If you take a person's shoe size and divide it by the caliber of a
|
||
bullet fired at him, you'll get the distance (in centimeters) that
|
||
person can move before being hit.
|
||
|
||
hhh don't forget the inverse relationship between the shoesize/calibre
|
||
is related to the square of the pucker factor and directly related to
|
||
the inertia stress of initial evasive manuevers.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: From a galaxy..
|
||
Date & Time: 10/25/90 21:56:09
|
||
Message Number 10010
|
||
|
||
Durn! Not enuf lines in the title block! Hi folks - I decided to
|
||
crawl from beneath the rock of MSDOS hardware programming to get
|
||
a breath of fresh air. Ahhhhhhh! Thanks! I needed it folks!
|
||
BTW - where the hell is everyone? Is Black Magic too busy anymore?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: You HOSERS
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 02:39:59
|
||
Message Number 10012
|
||
|
||
It's just that either sex that claims it's superior really pisses me
|
||
off... it's bigotry and I despise bigotry in any form. (Though it's the
|
||
males claiming superiority most often)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 02:42:46
|
||
Message Number 10013
|
||
|
||
Buddhism is different... Not ALL male gods, just the bad ones.
|
||
There are two incarnations of male deities. For instance, Take
|
||
the Anibus..and Osiris. these are the example of the different.
|
||
Dionysus and 'God' are the same. Give patronage to Dionysus for joy
|
||
and happiness or find that your life takes a bad twist(This is a bad
|
||
example) there is an incarnation of a good male god, and an evil male
|
||
god. In other words, there are two male gods, and they represent the two
|
||
didderent types of gods. They ARE the same god, figuratively, in diffe-
|
||
rent incarnations...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Message #10,000
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 02:56:50
|
||
Message Number 10014
|
||
|
||
The newcomer Dragonfly GOT THE 10,000!!!!! Woah!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 03:02:36
|
||
Message Number 10015
|
||
|
||
They/He are/is NOT the only god/s that exist, I was just clarifying
|
||
the male side of the god/s....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: David Duke
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 17:39:02
|
||
Message Number 10017
|
||
|
||
>Our greatest enemy is ourselves, and our fears at the base of our
|
||
>hearts.
|
||
|
||
Gee, that's profound! Actually, my greatest enemy is IBM, and the fear
|
||
at the base of my heart that people will start buying so many PS/1's
|
||
that they'll pop up in K-Mart.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Georgie
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 17:40:54
|
||
Message Number 10018
|
||
|
||
Um, the effectiveness of private watchdogs aside (do you really believe
|
||
that without the authority of law behind them, a private watchdog
|
||
could force changes on GM?), without the Department of Transportation
|
||
I-75 would soon be in even worse shape than it already is. We need a
|
||
Federal government to provide services that span states (like: fund
|
||
the interstate system), to provide services that the states are not
|
||
equipped to provide (international relations, defense, and the like),
|
||
and to arbitrate matters between states (ie, arbitrate laws (hence,
|
||
the Supreme Court) and the like).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 17:44:55
|
||
Message Number 10019
|
||
|
||
>But without the Crusades, Europe would have remained the closed world
|
||
>it was during the Dark Ages...
|
||
|
||
And why was it a closed world during the Dark Ages, hmm? In any event,
|
||
I'm not convinced that going out and killing your neighbors is a
|
||
legitimate alternative to remaining isolationist...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 17:47:36
|
||
Message Number 10020
|
||
|
||
>Astronomy was invented well before the Roman Empire, in Persia,
|
||
>I believe.
|
||
|
||
Yes. That's what I just said. Astronomy was a Persian innovation;
|
||
the Persian Empire was Muslim.
|
||
|
||
>History has been around...
|
||
|
||
The science of history, I believe I credited to the Muslims. That is,
|
||
an approach to history that is not based on folklore and championing
|
||
of the "right" side. Ibn' Khaldun is generally regarded in most circles
|
||
as being the world's first true historian. A guess as to his faith,
|
||
please?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Armag.
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 17:50:40
|
||
Message Number 10021
|
||
|
||
>Geesssh. I'm too moral for that...
|
||
|
||
Could be why you're always broke. :)
|
||
|
||
>You can't hook an IBM VGA monitor to a Tandy 1000 SL...
|
||
|
||
Well, you CAN, but it won't work. Yoiu need to connect a VGA
|
||
monitor to a machine with a VGA graphics card, as a general rule.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: From a galaxy..
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 17:54:57
|
||
Message Number 10023
|
||
|
||
>BTW - where the hell is everyone?
|
||
|
||
I'm somewhere outside of Seattle, Washington, looking for my luggage.
|
||
Black Magic is preoccupied with a number of bizzare personal crises
|
||
involving a few things I ought not talk about over a tapped phone line,
|
||
and has pretty much given up BBSing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: BTC tm
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 20:56:56
|
||
Message Number 10024
|
||
|
||
Sorry to take so long to get back to everybody. I've been VERY busy the
|
||
last few days. To answer your question, I dont't know whether that
|
||
bothers me or not (even if it may or may not be true). Even if it is
|
||
documented in some book(s), that
|
||
of course does not make in necessarily true. You on the other hand can
|
||
use that same argument regarding the Bible. But I respond to that with
|
||
'all religions are matter of faith'. I would like to believe
|
||
christianity is the product of a group of people who know what they are
|
||
pushing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Add another
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 21:05:10
|
||
Message Number 10025
|
||
|
||
My apologies, I stand corrected.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: BTC tm
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 21:06:30
|
||
Message Number 10026
|
||
|
||
>neither one of you seems to be willing to re-examine......
|
||
touche'
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: term prgs.
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 21:09:15
|
||
Message Number 10027
|
||
|
||
Is there some external device that can be installed to accomplish the
|
||
same thing (at a reasonable cost)?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: CAFFINE
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 21:25:01
|
||
Message Number 10029
|
||
|
||
>I wanted to name our team the
|
||
'Diet Dr. Dew Crew'...
|
||
Catchy name..
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Cmdr
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 21:27:31
|
||
Message Number 10030
|
||
|
||
Despite my very early messages after becoming a user of this bbs, I
|
||
really kinda like my Commodore. I can write my own programs on it, The
|
||
software is just as good as any other computers (the screen displays
|
||
leave a lot to be desired though). Do I detect a bit of self pity that
|
||
you have a Commodore. There are more CBM's out there than any other
|
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computer any where.
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From: BURNEY
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: geeks
|
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Date & Time: 10/26/90 21:33:10
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Message Number 10031
|
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|
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You should be proud of who you are. In the future you'll (maybe) snub
|
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your nose at them for not paying attention in school. YOU may have
|
||
the reputation of a geek (maybe not) now but YOU have the destinct
|
||
advantage later. Especially when you're pulling down big bucks later
|
||
and they're working for a mfg or K-Mart. I did /OK/ in school, but I
|
||
wish I paid more attention.
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|
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From: BURNEY
|
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To: BEATLE
|
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Subject: STAR TREK
|
||
Date & Time: 10/26/90 21:39:55
|
||
Message Number 10032
|
||
|
||
I see your point, however I HAVE SEEN episodes when she does interfere (
|
||
cannot remember show name...never pay attention to names [see earlier
|
||
message]). I remember thinking to myself...'she'd piss me off if she did
|
||
that to me'....
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|
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|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Armag.
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 00:20:46
|
||
Message Number 10033
|
||
|
||
> ...to a machine with a VGA graphics card, as a general rule.
|
||
|
||
Which I found out earlier today... :)
|
||
|
||
Boy, I've got to think more about this stuff...
|
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|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Cmdr
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 00:25:26
|
||
Message Number 10034
|
||
|
||
> Do I detect a bit of self pity...
|
||
|
||
Well, I like my Commodore. I am quite impressed with it because of
|
||
what it actually does with what it has compared to what others should be
|
||
able to do... I would rather have an Amiga, tho, since I go for graphics
|
||
and sound, and the Amiga is extremely good for that.
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: geeks
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 00:27:24
|
||
Message Number 10035
|
||
|
||
> You should be proud of who you are..
|
||
|
||
Well, I am, but I don't like the sort of social situations it provides
|
||
... Combining my physical appearance and my personality seems to total
|
||
up to a social outcast (or as I like to sayone of the "strange medium
|
||
guys with bad haircuts".)
|
||
|
||
My problem is that I often appologize for everything, I'm kinda
|
||
passive, and I often miss things that have been said and/or put my foot
|
||
in my mouth.
|
||
|
||
In other words, I am pretty happy with who I am when alone or with
|
||
people I'm comfortable with, but extremely flustered and self-conscious
|
||
when dealing with others...
|
||
|
||
And, as you may see, I feel a need to share my problems and try to get
|
||
solutions from just about anyone. That's another of the problems.. (that
|
||
is unless I'm mistaken in assuming most people don't really want to hear
|
||
about my problems.)
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: An issue
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 00:41:13
|
||
Message Number 10036
|
||
|
||
I saw a show todaytalking about drug legalization. I thought that it
|
||
would be a great topic to discuss here, since we're all very opinionated
|
||
people. My position was never really determined until now. Sometime back
|
||
I might have strongly opposed drug legalization. Now, however, I believe
|
||
a different angle on the problem needs to be tried. I'd like to see what
|
||
everyone thinks of this.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: Add another
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 03:25:02
|
||
Message Number 10037
|
||
|
||
Are you really as brain dead as you seem? > We don't /need/ most of the
|
||
intestinal bacteria.. we just end up with the runs eternally.. fun huh?
|
||
If we didn't have F/B's and other people who are unsatisfied with the
|
||
current state of affairs, we'd sure have one hell of a corrupt and in-
|
||
efficient government.
|
||
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THUMPER 1
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Drug legaliz...
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 05:21:08
|
||
Message Number 10038
|
||
|
||
As far as legalizing drug use in the states, why not? (shrug.) We're
|
||
smashed with all the "SAY NO TO DRUGS" propaganda any way. We're told
|
||
what drugs will do to us, and yet some people seem to "JUST SAY YES".
|
||
If a person wants to obtain any type of contraband (OOOOOOOO!! BIG WORD)
|
||
he/she can pretty much go to the corner and get some. We have all the
|
||
information, it's just a choice of "Do I Really Want To Do This To
|
||
Myself???" Just remember that you've been warned.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 22:19:43
|
||
Message Number 10039
|
||
|
||
>...neverthought to question...
|
||
>...../brainwashed/.....
|
||
>....hammered in beliefs....
|
||
It seems to me, you're the one who is brainwashed. That is a completely
|
||
ignorant remark. You obviously know nothing of the /real/ religion of
|
||
christianity.
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: ???
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 22:26:25
|
||
Message Number 10040
|
||
|
||
What are jelly babies??????
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: furry art
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 22:42:17
|
||
Message Number 10041
|
||
|
||
>furry art...long story...
|
||
We're listen'n
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BURNEY
|
||
To: DRAGONFLY
|
||
Subject: David Duke
|
||
Date & Time: 10/27/90 22:46:59
|
||
Message Number 10042
|
||
|
||
>people are afraid of ....different than themselves (you get the point)
|
||
Yes I generally agree with that, However, people are also a product of
|
||
there enviroment. If I saw on the news constantly the arrests of lets
|
||
say CHRISTIANS for religious crimes, it would be natural for me to be
|
||
fearful of christians fearing I might become a victim. If I never saw
|
||
the same about blacks, whites, hispanics, etc I would not be fearful of
|
||
them. My point being, as I said
|
||
before, Preople are a product of there enviroment. That goes for
|
||
religion, personal prejudices, political views, etc.
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: SPELLWIND
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/28/90 16:16:22
|
||
Message Number 10045
|
||
|
||
Au Contraire, I think I know it better that you....
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BURNEY
|
||
Subject: ???
|
||
Date & Time: 10/28/90 19:13:17
|
||
Message Number 10046
|
||
|
||
> What are jelly babies??????
|
||
|
||
Jelly beans.
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: You HOSERS
|
||
Date & Time: 10/28/90 21:12:01
|
||
Message Number 10047
|
||
|
||
Shut up. We don't need your kind around here.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: SPELLWIND
|
||
Subject: Christian affai
|
||
Date & Time: 10/28/90 21:13:21
|
||
Message Number 10048
|
||
|
||
Ya got the right idea. Give me lots of money and sacrifice many virgins
|
||
to me.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: PS/1
|
||
Date & Time: 10/28/90 21:14:54
|
||
Message Number 10049
|
||
|
||
And what's wrong with that, may I ask?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DIONYSUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: ???
|
||
Date & Time: 10/28/90 21:22:34
|
||
Message Number 10050
|
||
|
||
Remember all of those neat dead baby jokes? Jelly babies let you test
|
||
them experimentally.
|
||
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