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Old 08-25-2008, 12:58 PM
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I think being a heretic gets you extra points.
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It was hard to get through without the use of any standard punctuation, but I was strong.
You were "strong"?

You were also rude.

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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.

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good one earthyangel...about the fanatics.....couldnt agree more
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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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.

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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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Please understand that the rules here have a purpose and no one is being forced to participate here. Thank you.

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Does it help that I'm also a heretic?
You mean you stick candy up your nose too?
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