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08-25-2008, 12:58 PM
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I think being a heretic gets you extra points.
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08-25-2008, 02:15 PM
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It was hard to get through without the use of any standard punctuation, but I was strong.
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You were "strong"?
You were also rude.
Elphaba
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08-25-2008, 02:45 PM
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You were "strong"?
You were also rude.
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Let me rephrase.
I have been having some reading comprehension problems crop up recently, which make it difficult for me to follow text formatted in certain ways. Particularly, I need text to be broken up into sensible "chunks".
The format of that post by "dazed_and_confused" was extraordinarily difficult for me to process. I had to re-read each phrase over several times. It took me several times longer to get through than if it had contained some standard sentence and paragraph formatting.
I could have easily given up on it, choosing not to read it at all. If I had left it without comment at all, no one would have ever known.
Instead, I chose to honor the poster's intention of sharing a part of his own life's experiences with me. So yes, I was "strong" in that I had to steel my nerve to the task of getting through it all, rather than giving up.
So, your accusation of being "rude" falls on deaf ears here, because I felt I was being particularly considerate by even attempting to read that post.
Thanks,
Kevin
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08-25-2008, 02:47 PM
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good one earthyangel...about the fanatics.....couldnt agree more
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Thanks, dazed, it's an original of mine. I've wanted to have a bumper-sticker made of that for a long time. Never got up the drive, though, to see that desire through.
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Dear God: Please save us from your fanatics -- of every creed.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
There is nothing as dangerous in this world as a man convinced of his own righteousness.
A mind that has been stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension
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08-25-2008, 03:56 PM
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Hi Kevin!
I sure hope you're a nicer guy than the last pagan, mystic, shaman, buddhist, wiccan, gnostic, unitarian-universalist I ran into. Jerk still owes me twenty bucks.
LM
(joking)
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If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack, to sit in the synagogue and pray.
And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall.
And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day.
That would be the sweetest thing of all.
Ohhh....
If I were a rich man...
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08-25-2008, 04:25 PM
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08-25-2008, 05:56 PM
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I think that if you read the site rules and are determined to keep them, you will do fine here.
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08-25-2008, 06:56 PM
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I think that if you read the site rules and are determined to keep them, you will do fine here.
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Because we all know that the secret to a fulfilling life is following the rules.
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Dear God: Please save us from your fanatics -- of every creed.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
There is nothing as dangerous in this world as a man convinced of his own righteousness.
A mind that has been stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension
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08-25-2008, 07:30 PM
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Hi Kevin,
Please understand that the rules here have a purpose and no one is being forced to participate here. Thank you.
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08-25-2008, 07:44 PM
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Does it help that I'm also a heretic? 
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You mean you stick candy up your nose too?
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