God Damned Fundies!
|From: Steve Wallis
|To: Mark Hogan
|Sub: FOF update
|Date: 25 Jan 96 06:38:01
EID:1e59 203934c0
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31088111
-=> Quoting Mark Hogan to Steve Wallis <=-
-=> Quoting Steve Wallis to Mark Hogan <=-
-=> Quoting Mark Hogan to Steve Wallis <=-
MH>
-=> Quoting Steve Wallis to LARRY SITES <=-
SW>
SW> Larry, you really do play the part of a fool well. If your so against
SW> Focus on the Family, then why do you call them and waist there time
SW> ordering books from them?
SW>
SW> You actually cancelled your AOL membership becuase they are for Focus
SW> on the Family!!! Hahahahahahahahaha! Wake up Larry! No matter what
SW> online service you call your gonna find information and people who dont
SW> share your exact same views in life. Being a man of an analitical
SW> mindset, you really outdid yourself this time.
MH>
MH> Steve, you're not understanding. Perhaps you portray the fool
MH> better than anyone, if you didn't comprehend what Larry was
SW>
SW> Wisdom is justified by her children Mark.
MH>
MH> Is that all you can do; babble? You're not understanding. I'm
MH> beginning to think it's because you're willfully ignorant, Steve. Wise
MH> up, already.
Think what you will Mark, your opinion's dont mean a cent to me.
MH> lamenting upon. Focus of the Family isn't just providing
MH> information on AOL, they're influencing it, and trying to
MH> 'cleanse' it, to their satisfication and nobody else's. Let's say
MH> they decide to do-away with laughing, virtually. "God wouldn't
MH> approve," they say. Well, you're on your first offense. A couple
MH> more, and you're gone. It's not a silly example, as they're
MH> already banning what is, in only their opinion, malediction. If
MH> they don't like what you say, they'll take action. It sounds
MH> ridiculous, but hey. They are.
MH>
SW>
SW> Well, if it's their online service or AOL supports focus on the
SW> family, then Focus on the family has the right to mediate what they
SW> feel is appropriate material and to censor what they deem as not. It
SW> is a comercial business Mark, not a democracey.
MH>
MH> You're wholly missing the point. FOF is redundant. People are
MH> supposed to mediate their -own- fields of what they find tolerable,
MH> and what they don't. If you lack that judgement, I don't see why you
MH> should be permitted to live, nevermind reap enjoyment out of
MH> privileges.
Your missing the point-They own it Mark, They can do what they will with
it. If you dont like it-dont subscribe Mark-Frankly, I really dont care.
MH>
MH> "But, whoops. Steve says it's so. He -must- be right, no matter
MH> how wrong he is. I guess I just don't have a choice; after all, this
MH> is North America -- a dictatorship. We don't have an opinion here,
MH> right Steve?"
You have the choice to subscribe to it-and you have the choice not to. Be
happy Mark, you have a freewill! You are able to enjoy what you will, and
the right to do as you please.
MH> For one thing, AOL isn't at all worth subscribing to in the
MH> first place. Second, they've severely crippled themselves, in what
MH> they allow to pass through their net-flood gates. Third, they have
MH> this silly organization that wants to enforce control over others'
MH> free thought and will, through written-censorship.
SW>
SW> It might not be worth subscribing for you but other's opinions may
SW> vary. If they want to censar what they deem immoral material, they have
SW> the right to do so. They have tons of subscribers and what might prove
SW> tolerable to one might be offensive to another. One cant please
SW> everyone in life and there trying the best they can to clean up OAL
and
SW> make it into something family's can enjoy. That is there right if they
SW> choose to do so and I support them on that.
MH>
MH> You're a fool. We're individuals -- I don't want my individuality
MH> taken/stripped away, just because some pompous fool thinks they own
MH> the right to deem what they think is too explicit for me. I'm an
Have you been modeming for so long that your computer is such an intrical
part of your life that when an online service changes to a more Christian
like atmosphere, your whole individuality is taken/stripped away??? !!!
MH> individual, and I have individual rights. I have, and only I have, the
MH> right to deign what I want to see/read/hear/say. We're not slaves, and
MH> I refuse to be a virtual/digital slave to some militant fundy group
MH> who're trying to 'save us.' From who, ourselves? Get bent. I like, and
MH> am happy, with who I am. I don't need you telling me, or some group
MH> dictating to me, what's right and wrong. I know those for myself; as
MH> an individual. As long as I abide by the law, they can't touch me.
Your talking like your on trial here Mark. In case you dont know, I am not
your judge. Take this for an example- Look at bbs's, there are some that
have strict guidlines-ex. No swearing, No Handles, No Pirate Warze. And
then
you have bbs's that have swearing all over the place, Handles for every
user and pirated software as a files base. If you call a "clean bbs" What
are you gonna do, tell the sysop you want handles, swearing and pirate warze
on it so you can make a choice on what you read and download? No, you
wouldnt. You would have to call a bourd that has all the "dirt" on it to
find that and then, you could make your choice on what you deem as moral.
If you dont like a certain bbs, dont call it. Or start your own and configure
it to your standard of ethics.
SW> Surprized you didnt petition to your sysop to remove
SW> Holy Smoke from the message area-after all Larry, there
SW> are Christians on it...
MH>
MH> Smarten up, Steve. The two are incomparable. You can speak
MH> your mind here; you can't, on AOL. Is that clarified enough for
MH> you?
MH>
SW> Calm down killer, I was making a point. But even on these message
SW> echo's, one cant just do or say whatever they like. Most of them have
SW> strict guidlines that the mediator invokes to moderate his echo. If
SW> one doesnt like it, then they can switch to another echo or....start
SW> there own...
MH>
MH> You weren't making a point, you were being an ass. You still are,
MH> for that matter. "You can't say or do whatever you like." Watch me!
MH> Look, I'm jumping up and down, Steve. Stop me! I like it fine, and
MH> there's nothing you can do to stop me, Hitler-boy.
"hitler boy"? I seriously doubt that one. And you know full well what I
was saying and you also know I was right. If Styx decided one day not
to allow lets say swearing in here-thats his right. And he could bounce,
whoever he wanted off his echo. He owns it-he moderates it. Your whining
about wouldnt change that.
MH> What's that, Steve? "Then they can switch to another echo or ...
MH> start their own." Wow! That almost sounds like a judgement call,
MH> something you were implying we're incapable of making. After all, if
MH> we were capable of making those, why would we need FOF to make them
MH> for us? Golly, I think you're full of shit. You hypocrite!
I real dont care what you think Mark, Im not trying to gain your respect.
Again, your under the misguided notion that im trying to put you on trial,
which is wrong. Like I said, Im not your judge Mark. Even on footnote, I
preached freewill. If your too stiffnecked to see that then thats your
sorry problem. I believe in rights and freedoms guy. And if AOL chooses
to be a Christian online service, guess what Mark...."Thats their right!"
Godbless!
Steve
... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Marilyn Burge
|To: Steve Wallis
|Sub: HI
|Date: 25 Jan 96 07:29:10
EID:3ddd 20393ba0
MSGID: 1:105/40.666 f14ece9e
REPLY: 1:246/15.0 31062b36
On (24 Jan 96) Steve Wallis wrote to Marilyn Burge...
-=> Quoting Marilyn Burge to Annette Spence <=-
MB> On (19 Jan 96) Annette Spence wrote to Hector Plasmic...
HP> Simple question: if your gods didn't create evil, who did? If it was
a
HP> creation of your gods that did, didn't your gods indirectly create it?
HP> If something not created by your gods did, where'd _that_ come from?
AS> In my opinion, evil is a choice not a thing to be invented.
MB> Then how come Jehovah, in the first person, yet, bragged about
MB> having created it (in Isaiah)?
SW> Where does it say that Marilyn? I dont believe Ive read that
SW> scripture. You want to know why? Becuase its not there. Sin is a
SW> violation of the law. When God's law was broken sin was born.
SW> May God provide you with wisdom. Godbless!
You're the one who needs wisdom, fundy.
Isaiah 45:7 - I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace,
and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Why is it we heathens know your fucking book so damned much better
than you fundies?
... Creationists: Transitional forms between idiots and morons.
--- PPoint 2.00
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|From: Lump
|To: Jim Staal
|Sub: Re: Jim Staal
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:22:04
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PID: BWRA 3.11 [Reg]
TID: GE/32 1.2
-=> Quoting Jim Staal to George Rudzinski <=-
JS> @MSGID: 1:228/45.0 3106536f
-=> Quoting George Rudzinski to Lump <=-
JS>
GR> Did your old man croak yet or is god still letting him suffer?
JS>
JS> You are west side sleaze in it's lowest state, george...
JS>
...Yeah, I told him that in a few different ways and vivid
words......
... Catch the Blue Wave!
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|From: Lump
|To: Jim Staal
|Sub: Re: Staal shows his colon...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:32:04
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PID: BWRA 3.11 [Reg]
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-=> Quoting Jim Staal to Lump <=-
JS> @MSGID: 1:228/45.0 31065371
-=> Quoting Lump to Steve Quarrella <=-
Lu> @MSGID: 1:228/45.0 31045bc9
-=> Quoting Steve Quarrella to Lump <=-
SQ> 3 Jan 96, dixit Lump ad Fredric Rice:
L> ....except the smell of furds burning in the morning,-Martin Sheen
SQ> Try again...it was Robert Duvall.
Lu>
Lu> Nooo, it was Martin Sheen: "There's nothing like the smell
Lu> of _______ burning in the morning"< Apocolypse Now >
JS>
JS> Perhaps, but it was Robert Duvall who said in the same movie, 'I love
JS> the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells...like victory'.
.....Yes, it was, but marty said the above quote earlier in the
movie...I remember when Duvall said, when he was in his cubby as
Sheen was coming to kill him....
... Catch the Blue Wave!
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|From: Luke Clark
|To: Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub: Re: -------
|Date: 22 Jan 96 22:21:20
EID:324c 2036b2a0
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-=> Katherine Wintersnight invoked Re: ------- which summoned Luke Clark<=-
LC> Maybe it was the primary religion, but the Founders such as
LC> Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington were Deists (They believed in
LC> god, but they didn't believe in one of the major religions.One of the
LC> prerequesites of Free Masonry is that you believe in God).
KW>
KW> Not God, Luke, a god. A stated belief in *a* supreme creator is
KW> specified, but which 'supreme' creator is not. There are Pagan
KW> Masons.
I'm aware of that.When I say God, I don't neccesarilly refer
to YHVH, Jesus, Allah, or any other such thing.
Luke
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|From: Luke Clark
|To: Larry Sites
|Sub: Re: FOF=child abuse
|Date: 22 Jan 96 22:48:22
EID:67d2 2036b600
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 31044c76
-=> Larry Sites invoked FOF=child abuse which summoned All<=-
LS> Article 14 gives the child the right to freedom of thought,
LS> conscience, and religion.
All the horor!!!
LS> courts force the parents to allow the child to
LS> think whatever he wills,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What, the Christians are going to start "Thought Police"?
If you think blasphemous thoughts, you can be disciplined?
Also, how the fuck will any being stop any other being from
thinking what they will?
I don't think technology has progressed that far.
LS> Parents would not be able to require their child to learn
LS> about the Bible or attend church if the
LS> child did not want to do so (Article 14).
This is good.Now maybe my parents won't make me go.
Of course, if the christians had their way, EVERYONE would be nice
bible reading, church going, decent folk and 'blasphemous' books
by 'Nietzsche', 'Lovecraft', 'Rand', 'Crowley', and others would
be burned.How like the Nazis.
LS> Parents would have no say regarding their child's choice of
LS> friends (Article 15).
Like they really would anyway.What are they going to do, follow them
around all day? Why not hold their dick for 'em so they can't
fornicate when they take a piss?
LS> Parents could be prohibited from spanking their children
LS> (Article 18).
In other words, there prohibited from doing something to some one
less than 1/2 their size which would be illegal for them to do to
any one else.
LS> What Next?
No more welts on the ass?
Luke
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|From: Luke Clark
|To: Jim Staal
|Sub: Re: Holiday Greetings...
|Date: 22 Jan 96 23:13:24
EID:31ac 2036b9a0
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 31045254
-=> Jim Staal invoked Holiday Greetings... which summoned Luke Clark<=-
-=> Quoting Luke Clark to Jim Staal <=-
JS> (Rom 9:19 NIV) One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still
JS> blame us? For who resists his will?"
JS> (Rom 9:20 NIV) But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall
JS> what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like
JS> this?'"
LC> Yes this one shall say that! The above is a cop out!
JS> A cop out for whom?
Paul.It set's it up nice so he doesn't have to answer any hard
philosophical questions about Pre-Destination vs. Free Will.
LC> I question
LC> him.If he has any comments, he knows where to find me.
JS> Sounds like it is starting to get personal, Luke...
Hey, he know's where I am.If he has anything to say, I'm listening.
He supposedly bashed a guy of a horse and caused faith in him,
so why not a teenager in Baltimore?
JS> I used to, Luke...soem dude by the name of 'the red rooster' (a
JS> protege of Bobby the brain) used win his matches with a hold he called
JS> the 'chicken wing'.
LC> The Red Rooster? That was one of the more dim-witted gimicks the
LC> WWF had.I was referring to the move Bob Backlund will put on you
LC> if don't call him "Mister Backlund".
JS> Oh...like MISTER Backlund? Does he have the dude stand on a Milk Crate
JS> [TM]?
He,he,he... well, no...
JS> (1 Cor 15:22 NIV) For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be
JS> made alive.
JS> (Psa 51:5 NIV) Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my
JS> mother conceived me.
JS> King David speaking on this last one...a man the Bible calls 'a man
JS> after God's own heart'. The dude knows what he is talking about.
LC> How where they sinful.I want a reason, not mindless repitition.
JS> When you say 'mindless repetition' it starts to sound personal, Luke.
I'm just making an observation.Does not the Lord want you to be wise
as serpents? (Which has some interesting possibilities considering
the apparent Serpent/Satan correspondence).You don't really say to much
that I haven't heard before.If you want Christianity to last, it needs
to start being original.Not neccesarily changing the bible, but
changing it's preaching tactics.
LC> How is a child responsible for the sin of Adam.Isn't sin a
LC> choice?
JS> Our 'original sin' in Adam is no choice for us. It was one for him,
JS> but in making his choice, he made it for all who were to come after
JS> him. A child is responsible for the sin of Adam because God said
JS> he/she is. He does make the rules, ya know...:)
Doesn't that violate Old Testament codes about the son not being
responsible for the sins of his father, nor the father being responsible
for the sins of his son (I believe it's in Deuteronomy)?
JS> No claim is made that this is going to satisfy man's logic or sense
of
JS> justice. It doesn't have to. God's logic and justice are beyond
JS> question.
LC> For you.That's a slave mentality, that won't question his master.
JS> When you say 'slave mentality' it sounds like it is getting personal,
JS> Luke. In any event, the questions were there once, and then answered
JS> when that scripture was read.
The trouble is, I've pretty much done the vestiges of the Christian
paradigm from with in me.I can't believe blindly.
LC> How did they sin?
JS> By impution through their father, Adam.
LC> I'm sure Hitler used a similar rationalization to justify the
LC> Holocaust.
JS> I neither know nor care how that heinous individual rationalized his
JS> sorry actions. That is of no concern to me. I cannot do any thing
JS> about that. It is history. I can only do what I can to prevent it from
JS> happening in my town, in my lifetime.
That's a good approach to take.I try not to get caught up in revenge
and the like either.
JS> If the latter, the parents must carry full brunt of that one because
JS> if they had believed, then the infants would have been saved as well.
Where does it say that in the bible? How do you define 'the full brunt'?
I thought Hell was a pit of fire where all were tortured indescriminately?
Anyway, it does not speak well of your God if he's going to toss
little infants into the Lake of Fire.
LC> Your god didn't seem to care.All he seemed to care about what was
LC> vengeance, regardless of who he hurt.
JS> Not necessarily vengeance as you may think of it but rather justice:
JS> These are the rules, you break 'em, this is the punishment.
But how were the children aware of the rules? If child breaks certain rules,
do you punish them the same as an adult? It seems like your trying to
de-personalize god into a kind of force that just 'is'.
Everybody
JS> breaks the rules by nature. I have provided a way out. If you do not
JS> take it, the punishment stands.
In this country if there is a rule that everyone breaks, we get rid
of the offending rule.That's called democracy.But the bible doesn't
support democracy, does it? Heck, it might be construed to support
communism.
JS> It was perfect in that it had no sin. Adam made a choice. That choice
JS> affected the entire universe and everything in it.
LC> You agree sin is a choice.How could the babies make that choice?
JS> Adam had the choice in regard to this 'original sin' thing. We have
no
JS> choice about that. Everybody is afficted, like it or not.
Why did god allow that to happen, knowing that little babies would
be sent to hell?
LC> (This is interesting, as it applies to the Fundamentalist Pro-Life
LC> agenda)
JS> In what manner? (I have thoughts on this, but I would like to hear
JS> yours as well)
Damn this fido lag, I forgot.Hold on.
I was thinking that if being killed before you grew beyond infancy
was a ticket to heaven, you'd think Fundamentalist Christianity would
be fully in support of it.Also, what if somebody has an abortion, but
repents and is saved? Who carries the brunt of the death of that being
then?
Luke
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|From: Luke Clark
|To: Asmodeus
|Sub: Re: Just take out the co
|Date: 22 Jan 96 23:26:26
EID:3bc8 2036bb40
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 31045562
-=> Asmodeus invoked Re: Just take out the cor which summoned J.j. Hitt<=-
As> [B** Quoting J.J. Hitt to Asmodeus **
As> of anything outside that which I wish to accomplish. I
As> cannot say it is easy,
As> but at the same time not difficult.
Ever read Crowley's 'Magick in Theory and Practice"?
As> against someone for such a petty thing as that which you did. That
is
As> not deservant of death, which can occur if the magickian is willful
As> enough to summon such energy from within himself, and in that case
I
As> was quite angry.
Magick ain't gonna do shit if you sit on your ass all day.Magick
is way to focus your self on something, it won't get that something
by itself.You need to do what Crowley called "Manifesting the Magickal
Link".
As> incorrect in assuming this. I do not use drugs, as they
As> are truly harmful and
As> I do not wish to harm that which I love so much. Namely, me.
If you love yourself, why do you chose such Nihilistic Imagery?
Besides, if you follow a philosophy of Hedonism, wouldn't any
pleasure be acceptable?
I'm a Nihilist, myself (Go look it up).
I do not
As> fit the typical view of you most likely have of wanna-be-Pagans, as
I
As> am a true believer in my religion, and do not use it as a tool to
As> justify my actions.
Your shitting me! What purpose is there for your religion other
than to justify your actions?
Also, no curse will find its way to you any time
As> soon through me, unless you attempt to harm me other than through mere
As> words.
As> Please do not send me any more hate-mail, and I will respond in kind.
If he doesn't send you hate mail, you'll respond in kind?
You haven't gotten over the Masochism caused by Christianity,
have you?
Do what thou wilt.
Luke
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|From: Luke Clark
|To: Asmodeus
|Sub: Re: On the fifth day of
|Date: 23 Jan 96 21:17:28
EID:2506 2037aa20
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 310588a8
-=> Asmodeus invoked Re: On the fifth day of S which summoned J.j. Hitt<=-
As> [B** Quoting J.J. Hitt to Asmodeus **
J>
As> Oh, one more thing: Have A Nice Day :)
Have A Nice Day? HAND?
I'm surprised you'd have one free to type the above.
Luke
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|From: Luke Clark
|To: Richard Morrison
|Sub: Re: White-lighter Religi
|Date: 23 Jan 96 21:21:30
EID:abab 2037aaa0
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 3105899a
-=> Richard Morrison invoked Re: White-lighter Religio which summoned Asmodeus<=-
A>Things occur that couldn't possibly happen, but they do, in my favo
A>everyday basis just about. Unlike other theists that pray, wind up
A>empty-handed, doubt, then pray again, I actually do something and w
A>what I want. It's a win/win situation.
RM> What about salvation?
Christian, save thy self.
Luke
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|From: Luke Clark
|To: Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub: Re: White-lighter Religi
|Date: 23 Jan 96 21:24:32
EID:7740 2037ab00
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 31058a50
-=> Katherine Wintersnight invoked Re: White-lighter Religi which summoned
Asmodeus<=-
A>** Quoting Luke Clark to Asmodeus **
A>L> -=> Asmodeus invoked Re: White-lighter Religio which summoned Fredric
A>L> Rice<=-
KW> Asmodeus--a Christian demon most often associated with possessing
KW> nuns. Seems to be the christian demonic form of Aramaiti, the mother
of
KW> 'the people made of clay', an Iranian goddess and one of the precursors
KW> to 'Yahweh'.
Not completely correct.Asmodeus is not hebrew, he's persian.
He's mentioned in the Talmud as well as certain Apocryphal books.
He's not neccesarilly a Demon, in the sense that he's a fallen
angel, but is the leader of a race of independant spirits (Similar
to the Djinn of Islam), that have a choice of accepting the Torah
or not.
Luke
... A little greed can get you a lot of stuff.
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|From: John Musselwhite
|To: Marty Leipzig
|Sub: Bloody weather.
|Date: 24 Jan 96 15:14:57
EID:1621 203879c0
MSGID: 1:134/67.0 3106d961
Hi Marty...
On 22 Jan 96 11:52:03, Marty Leipzig penned the following to Robert Jackson
re: Bloody weather.
RJ> Yeah, how 'bout this seasonably warm weather us Gulfdwellers
RJ> are experiencing. BWAAHAHA!!
ML> I too was laughing, until I had to mow my lawn.
ML> IN JANUARY!
ML> At least you don't have to shovel clippings.
Just think, Marty... you could be here in Calgary enjoying the
-30 C temperatures, shovelling tonnes of snow off the sidewalk
and exchanging the front tires on your car for skis! B-})
John
... Winter is Nature's way of saying, "Up Yours!"
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|From: John Musselwhite
|To: Andrew Masten
|Sub: Viability
|Date: 24 Jan 96 10:39:26
EID:2991 203854e0
MSGID: 1:134/67.0 3106d962
Hi Andrew...
On 21 Jan 96 00:52:50, Andrew Masten penned the following to Katherine
Wintersnight
re: Viability
AM> If in general your interested in findings that support the
AM> Bible, go to any Christian bookstore and get a copy of Evidence that
AM> Demands a Verdict. Written by Josh McDowell. This man is a lawyer who
AM> originally set out to write a book to debunk Christianity. But was
AM> instead compelled to write in favor of it.
I just finished "Reasons Skeptics Should Consider
Christianity". What a load of CRAP! McDowell just repeats the
same lies and obfuscations we've been reading for years.
However, for your edification, I present this! (I didn't write
it)
_ _ _O_/_ _C_u_t_ _H_e_r_e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
O \
Top Ten List Of More Accurate Names For Josh McDowell's
"Evidence That Demands A Verdict"
10. A Verdict That Demands Evidence
9. Evidence That Demands A Better Lawyer
8. Evidence That Not Nearly Enough Money Is Being Spent On
Education In This Country
7. Evidence That Had The Jury Rolling Their Eyes In Disbelief
6. Evidence That Sucks (formerly Evidence That Wouldn't Fool
Beavis And Butthead, Let Alone A Thinking
Person)
5. Josh McDowell's Exhaustive Handbook Of Logical Fallacies, With
Many Examples
4. Evidence That Would Get Your Butt Thrown In Jail On A
"Contempt Of Court" Charge.
3. Evidence That People Really Will Believe Anything They See In
Print
2. Evidence That Josh McDowell Is Really An Atheist Who Is Trying
To Make All Christians Look Like Morons
And the number one more accurate name for Josh McDowell's
Evidence That Demands A Verdict is...
[drumroll]
1. Evidence That Demands A Verdict, But Can't Even Justify A
Search Warrant
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Next...
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|From: John Musselwhite
|To: Andrew Masten
|Sub: [1/3] Evidence
|Date: 24 Jan 96 10:49:23
EID:ce77 20385620
MSGID: 1:134/67.0 3106d963
>>> Part 1 of 3...
Hi Andrew...
On 21 Jan 96 00:52:50, Andrew Masten penned the following to Katherine
Wintersnight
re: Viability
AM> If in general your interested in findings that support the
AM> Bible, go to any Christian bookstore and get a copy of Evidence that
AM> Demands a Verdict. Written by Josh McDowell. This man is a lawyer who
AM> originally set out to write a book to debunk Christianity. But was
AM> instead compelled to write in favor of it.
McDowell is a goof of the first water. Try this essay on for
size!
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O \
A Verdict That Defies the "Evidence"
By Bernard Katz
Copyright 1982 by The American Rationalist
The fundamentalist Christians have once again resurrected
themselves. like their Savior, to attack evolution and science,
sexuality and permissiveness. and whatever else they deem that
does not square with their viewpoint. To propagandise their
beliefs, they have built a vast communications network which
includes books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, and radio and
television stations, as well as the most sophisticated techniques
for collecting the necessary money to fuel these apologetic arms.
One of the many books used to buttress their Christian
apologetics is a compilation by Josh McDowell. His first volume
is titled Evidence that Demands a Verdict, published by the
Campus Crusade for Christ in 1972. Since it had gone through
fourteen printings by 1977 alone, it is important that its
"evidence" or arguments be closely analysed. I shall scrutinize
parts of chapter 11, "Prophecy Fulfilled in History," pages
277-333. This deals with the whole idea of prophecy as well as
how twelve specific ones were actually fulfilled and for this
reason constitute "one of the great proofs that there is a living
God behind the Bible and history" (p. VIII).
To McDowell, a "prophet is someone who tells God's will and the
future to the people as divine inspiration leads" (p. 278). It
follows that the fulfilling of these prophecies "is not only a
demonstration of God's power, but also of His answer to man's
prayers and needs" (p. 279).
Under the section on "Tests of a Prophet" (pp. 279-80), McDowell,
in interpreting chapter 13 in Deuteronomy, concludes: "If a
prophet presented fulfilled predictive prophecy, yet claimed a
theology out of keeping with the norm set down by Moses, the
people had a false prophet" (p. 280). This statement alone, I
should think, is enough to condemn the Christian religion
outright, for there is much in the books of Moses which
contravenes Christian theology. That is the reason why the
crucifixion of Jesus on the cross was such a scandal (Galatians
3:13). For the Mosaic law laid down in Deut. 21:22-3 declares:
"And if a man committed a crime punishable by death and he is put
to death, and you hang him on a tree... for a hanged man is
accursed by God.. ." Not only did Paul have to gather all of his
powers of sophistry to twist the ignomy of Jesus' death on a
cross (or tree) from one of great embarrassment to one of a
positive good, but Christians today are still struggling with
this thorny problem.
One of the many dishonest techniques McDowell uses are sins of
omission." This is what I mean. He has just told us that the test
of a true prophet is found in Deuteronomy 13. But he doesn't tell
you to read further on, especially Deut. 18:21-22. For here is
another test to distinguish the true prophet from the false. To
the question "How do we know the word which the Lord has not
spoken?" the Scripture answers: 'when a prophet speaks in the
name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true,
that is a word which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has
spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him." And
just two verses before this, we find that the punishment for such
presumptuousness is: ". . . that same prophet shall die." Since
it can be proven that many of Jesus' prophecies were not
fulfilled, and I shall do so later on with one of them, then it
follows that Jesus was rightfully executed.
In his next section, McDowell tries to anticipate a major
objection by critics of predictive prophecy. He says: "As far as
the question of dating prophecies goes, many people will attack
predictive prophecy from the standpoint of post-dating, that is
placing the prophecy after the event of the fulfillment rather
than before. Unfortunately for the critic, these prophets make
their prophecies very clear-the tenses are very obvious" (p.
280-1).
Unfortunately for McDowell, the dates he accepts for the various
prophetic books don't all hold up. For example, he dates the book
of Daniel at 605-538 BC (p. 281). This is clearly false according
to the prestigious Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible, edited by
James Hastings and revised by two top Protestant scholars H. H.
Rowley and F. C. Grant.
In the article on the book of Daniel, p. 200, we discover:"...
The relations between Syria and Egypt, from the 4th to the 2nd
centuries BC are described with a fulness of detail. . . the
events from 323 to 175 BC occupy 16 versus; those from 175 to 164
BC take up 25; at verse 34 the lines become less definite,
because this is the point at which the book was written; at verse
40 prediction begins, and the language no longer corresponds with
the facts of history. There can be little doubt that Daniel
appeared about 164 BC"
Further on in the article we are told that: "The theological
features are what might be expected in the 2nd century BC"
So much for McDowell's uncritical acceptance of the date of
605-538 BC for the book of Daniel and his concluding assurance
that the Bible contains no post-dated prophecies!
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|From: John Musselwhite
|To: Andrew Masten
|Sub: [2/3] Evidence
|Date: 24 Jan 96 10:49:24
EID:0d72 20385620
MSGID: 1:134/67.0 3106d964
>>> Part 2 of 3...
Or take the date McDowell says the Jews who lived in Egypt
translated the Bible into Greek and his conclusions regarding the
prophetic books based on that date: "All of the Old Testament
prophets were translated into Greek in the Greek Septuagint by
about 280 BC Therefore, we can assume that all of the prophets
(including Joel and Obadiah) were written before this time" (p.
281). This is simply not so according to another highly reputable
source, the Abingdon Bible Commentary, edited by F. C. Eiselin,
E. Lewis, and D. G. Downey. In the chapter "The Transmission of
the Old Testament," pp. 103-4, we are given this information
about the Septuagint: "The books were translated at different
times by men unequally prepared for the task, the whole process
extending over a period of approximately two hundred years, from
about 250 to 50 BC" Notice that where McDowell says that the
cut-off date for the Greek translation is about 280 BC, Professor
I. M. Price, author of the Abingdon article, tells us that that
is when the translations were actually started!
In regard to the dating of Ezekiel, which has been the subject of
much controversy, McDowell uses as a witness the famous
archeologist W. F. Albright who, according to McDowell, stated
this in his The Old Testament and Archeology:".. this critical
attitude [i.e., to the dating of Ezekiel] is not justified in the
least, and to his way of thinking [i.e., Albright's], there seems
to be every reason for going back to a more conservative
attitude."
This statement, unfortunately for McDowell' a case, is
contradicted by the very same Albright, who says in his From the
Stone Age to Christianity, p. 326: .... . it is clear, however,
that the manuscript tradition [i.e., of Ezekiel] must have been
very corrupt, since the present massoretic text is full of
doublets and conflate readings, many of which were not yet
incorporated in the recension used by the Greek translators of
the second century BC" Since McDowell places the book of Ezekiel
at 592-570 BC, we have caught this apologist through his own
witness!
That last major criticism regarding McDowell's assumptions
concerns his statement which has already been quoted but bears
repetition because of its importance: "Unfortunately for the
critic, these prophets make their prophecies very clear- the
tenses are very obvious" (underlining mine).
But, as the following citation will show, this is not true. One
of the specific predictions taken up by McDowell to prove his
case is that of the prophet Nahum's prophecy about the
destruction of Nineveh. Here is what Hastings' Dictionary of the
Bible says on page 686 in its article on Nahum:
"Did Nahum prophecy before, during, or after the faIl of
Nineveh? Did he predict its fall, or only describe it after
the event? Scholars are divided on the answer to these
questions. Some of the verses use the Hebrew imperfect, and
seem to point to the future, such as 2:13; 3:5-7, 11, 15.
Other verses are so vivid and realistic in their description
of the attack on the city and its downfall that they appear
to have been written after Nineveh's capture, such as 2:1,
3-10; 3:1-4, 12 f., 18 f. Under the principles of Hebrew
syntax, the imperfect verbs may be translated by the English
present tense. It is to be considered as possible that Nahum
began to write, or to proclaim his message orally, before or
during the siege of Nineveh and completed it after the
successful capture. The last two verses.. appear to look
backward rather than forward" (underlining mine).
I believe this citation refutes McDowell's claim that "the tenses
are very obvious," as well as his declaration that there are no
post-datings in the writings of the prophets!
It should also be brought to the reader's attention that McDowell
has committed another "sin of omission" in his presentation of
the destruction of Nineveh, and that is that such a prophecy was
revoked in the book of Jonah. Here we find Jonah complaining to
God because God had destroyed the plant which was shading the
prophet. So God rebuked Jonah saying: "You have had pity for the
gourd, for which you have not labored nor made it grow, which
came up in a night, and perished in a night; and should not I
have pity on Nineveh, that great city..." (Jonah 4:10-11).
That the prediction of Nahum was annulled by the later book of
Jonah is proven by the dates in which the two books were written.
Nahum's is dated around 612 BC whereas Jonah's falls between 400
and 200 BC By these "sins of omission" McDowell perpetuates the
great evil of dishonesty.
So much for McDowell's prologue. Let's scrutinize some of the
specific prophecies he uses for "Christian evidences." He starts
off with those concerning the ancient city of Tyre because the
prophecies about its destruction are so easily proven. McDowell
refers to chapter 26:8 of Ezekiel which predicts that
"Nebuchadnezzar will destroy the mainland city of Tyre."
To avoid confusion and to add precision to this prediction, it
should be pointed out that Tyre consisted of a mother-city
located on an island off the east coast of Palestine and a
trading colony situated across from it on the mainland. McDowell
assumes that the prediction applies to that part of Tyre located
on the mainland because on page 281 he says: "The mainland city
of Tyre was destroyed in 573... but the city of Tyre on the
island remained a powerful city for several hundred years." (If
only part of the city were destroyed, how can the prediction be
true?)
But there are two further objections. One is that McDowell has
actually misread the Scripture! The actual biblical passage, and
McDowell gives it correctly on page 285 is: "He (i.e., Yahweh)
will slay,, your daughters on the mainland with a sword... Now
McDowell thinks this refers to the main or "mother" city of Tyre.
But he's got his P's and Q's backwards! The metropolis of Tyre
was actually on the island fortress and the so-called mainland
city was what we would today call a suburb. How do we know?
Because the text tells us so. It says: "He will slay your
daughters on the mainland..." (underlining mine). All ancient
cities which sent out colonies designated them as either "sons"
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|From: John Musselwhite
|To: Andrew Masten
|Sub: [3/3] Evidence
|Date: 24 Jan 96 10:49:25
EID:8c70 20385620
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>>> Part 3 of 3...
or "daughters," depending on whether the inhabitants were
kin-folk or simply allies. In this case the Tyranians on the
mainland were allies and so were labelled "daughters." Therefore
the prediction of Ezekiel means the opposite of what McDowell
thinks!
The second objection is much more serious, and is once again due
to McDowell's 'sins of omission." To see that Ezekiel's prophecy
did not come true, all one has to do is to read two chapters
further on, to Ezekiel 29:17-20. Here he will be shocked, if he's
a Christian in the mold as McDowell, to find that Ezekiel admits
that he was wrong in this prediction; that Nebuchadnezzar never
"got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had
performed against it. Therefore says the Lord God... I will give
the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar." In other words, after
Ezekiel admits he was in error, he says that the Lord will
recompense the king of Babylon with Egypt for his troubles
against Tyre! Why doesn't McDowell point this out? Because his
best evidence of a fulfilled prophecy would, naturally, explode
his whole argument. After all, selectivity is the basis of
Christian apologetics!
There is not space to demolish each of McDowell's examples on
which his Christian "evidence" is based. I simply picked his best
shot. Yet I want to investigate briefly one more which I had
earlier promised to do. This deals with a so-called prophetic
fulfillment from the New Testament by Jesus (p. 321).
According to chapter 11 in the gospel according to Matthew, Jesus
(that paragon of loving kindness) pronounced the judgment of
destruction on four cities-Capernaum, Chorazin, Bethsaida, and
Tiberias-for not believing in his gospel.
Now McDowell states: "Three of these cities have perished. Only
the last named is standing today" (p. 321). If Tiberias has never
been destroyed, how could Jesus' prophecy of four cities
destroyed be considered true? Wouldn't you conclude that McDowell
has blown himself up on his own bomb? Now to the remarks
contained in McDowell's conclusion. He states: "What seemed to be
a great blow to the Christian faith, the Moslem invasion of the
Holy Land and the eventual military failure of the Crusades, is
in reality a great victory for the Christian. The Moslems
catalyzed the final sealing of many prophecies. How many
condemned cities in this study alone fell during or directly
because of the Crusades and Moslem invasions? It is rather
ironical that the apparent enemy of Christianity is, after closer
study, the principal pawn used by the Lord to complete his
purpose in the Church Age" (p. 332).
Try convincing a Moslem with that kind of sophistry! Just as the
fall of Jerusalem to the Romans was proof to the newly formed
Christian groups that God had abandoned his people the Jews and
had accepted in their place the "New Israel" of pagans, so the
Moslems interpreted their victories over the Christians as the
ascendency of Allah over the deity of their enemies.
There is another important objection: the predictive prophecies
were not for the far distant future, hundreds of years after the
oracle was proclaimed. If the people addressed by the prophet had
to wait beyond their lifetime for its fulfillment, what good was
such an oracle to them?
Here is what The Abingdon Bible Commentary says in the chapter on
"The Prophetic Literature," page 152: "Though prediction is not
of the essence of prophecy, the prophets were as vitally
interested in the future as they were in the present. . . Their
predictions bore mainly on the immediate future. While in details
they might be vague, and occasion ally mistaken..." (underlining
mine). You must admit that the appraisal given by the Christian
scholars in the Abingdon Commentary are much closer to the truth
than McDowell.
As has been frequently pointed out, McDowell commits "sins of
omission." Some of what McDowelI should have included if he
really were telling the truth can be found in the new and
prestigious Encyclopedia Judaica 's article "Prophets and
Prophecy," vol. 13, p. 1167: "Furthermore, several occasions are
specifically recorded in which an oracle delivered by an
acknowledged true prophet did not materialize in the manner in
which he predicted-even within his own lifetime! Only a few
examples of unfulfilled prophecies need be cited: Jeremiah
predicted an ignominious end for King Jehoiakim (Jer. 22:19); yet
II Kings 24:6 clearly belies this oracle. Ezekiel predicted the
destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar (26:7-14), but later
acknowledged that the king's siege of the city was unsuccessful
(29:17-20). Both Haggai's (2:21-23) and Zechariah's (4:6-7)
glorious anticipation and designs for Zerubbabel never
materialized."
As you can see, there is no contest between this passage of
intellectual honesty and McDowell's mendacity! His dishonesty
undermines the hard won achievements and credibility of scholars
in his own field and sows confusion and distrust among the
unsophisticated.
The only conclusion, I firmly believe, which one can come to is
that McDowell has based his so-called fulfilled prophecies on
ersatz proofs and that his is "a verdict that defies the
evidence!"
_ _ _O_/_ _C_u_t_ _H_e_r_e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
O \
... Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you're an idiot.
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|From: Marilyn Burge
|To: All
|Sub: For your info...
|Date: 24 Jan 96 22:24:39
EID:6af7 2038b300
MSGID: 1:105/40.666 7f94cf01
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Date: 22 Jan 96 23:42:48 Public
From: christopher baker
To: All
Subject: Christian Coalition Numbers
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From: Charles Sumner
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AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 3, 1996
Contact: Joseph Conn or Rob Boston
(202) 466-3234
CHRISTIAN COALITION GROSSLY EXAGGERATES ITS MEMBERSHIP;
DUES-PAYING MEMBERS ACTUALLY DROPPED IN 1995, MAGAZINE REPORTS
Ralph Reed, call your office: Over 1.3 million Christian Coalition
members are missing!
According to a report in Church & State magazine, dues-paying Christian
Coalition members are far fewer in number than claimed by the organization,
and the group's membership actually dropped dramatically in 1995.
The January Church & State reports that paid membership in the Christian
Coalition fell from 353,703 in September 1994 to 310,296 in September 1995.
The watchdog magazine said its information comes from the Christian
Coalition's own publication, the Christian American. The U.S. Postal Service
requires all publications that are mailed at the second-class postage rate
to
publish subscription and sales information each year.
The Christian American's officially reported circulation figures do not
square with claims made by the Christian Coalition in its press releases
and
other public statements. In those publicity efforts, the organization has
claimed that its membership increased from 1.2 million in 1994 to 1.7 million
in 1995.
The higher figures, however, appear to be bogus. The Christian American
is sent to anyone who contributes as little as $15 a year. If the Christian
Coalition currently has 1.7 million "members," more than 1.3 million have
apparently not paid their dues and are not receiving the organization's
flagship publication.
Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of
Church and State, charged that the Christian Coalition is grossly inflating
its actual membership in order to increase its political influence and appear
to be a growing movement.
"Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition has set a well-established pattern
of deception in many of its activities," said Lynn. "Wildly inflating its
membership figures is just part of that deplorable practice.
"There's no doubt that the Christian Coalition is a powerful force in the
Republican Party and American politics generally," Lynn continued. "But
it has
achieved that power in part by casting aside the truth."
Church & State is the monthly magazine of Americans United for Separation
of Church and State. Founded in 1947, Americans United is a Washington,
D.C.-based organization devoted to the preservation of religious liberty.
This press release may be distributed only in its entirety and may not be
edited or altered in form or content. Please contact Americans United for
Separation of Church and State at (202) 466-3234 for further information.
AmerUnited@aol.com; sumner@rochgte.fidonet.org
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+ Origin: Rights On!-A_THEIST Echo Mod/Host-Titusville_FL_USA (1:374/14)
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|From: JIm Staal
|To: Coridon Henshaw
|Sub: Duh...let's wait a month...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 03:55:07
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-=> Quoting Coridon Henshaw to Jim Staal <=-
LB>> he acted as though he had no idea what anyone was talking about
LB>> -- it wasn't until his own posted was regurgitated that he
LB>> suddenly remembered his own father had been ill.
JS>> No, I just didn't recall having mentioned it to any one here...
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
LB> I think half his trouble is that you've never let him
LB> sink in the mire of his own creation, and he's never really had his
LB> hand slapped for the sewage he puts out, like above.
CH> Nah...he lived with my parents for 29 years or so. Take that up with
CH> them (though he is going through some tough times with my father in
CH> the hospital, having suffered some serious strokes last Monday) He
CH> has been only married for a year and a couple of months. I only lived
CH> with my parents for 18 years. Been outa there for some 30 now...
Well...duh, Coridon, you certainly came up with this old news about two
weeks after everybody else...Why you always got to call names? Do you
think you are raising yourself staturally in any manner shape or form,
big man?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
CH> Does this refresh your memory, dipshit?
... get real, get a crate and get reconciled to me, your statural superior
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|From: Jim Staal
|To: Dan Ceppa
|Sub: Dan's inellect...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 03:41:18
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-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Jim Staal <=-
DC> You do your religion real priud, you little peice of slime.
DC> And you are that horses ass, Jimbo.
How many horses was that, Dan?
Man, you 'better educated' sure have a way with the language...
I also love your eloquence:
DC> you stupid twerp.
DC> The only thing not meaningless here, dipdshit, is your fucking
DC> And you are that horses ass, Jimbo.
DC> you stupid twerp.
DC> The only thing not meaningless here, dipdshit, is your fucking
DC> And you are that horses ass, Jimbo.
DC> you stupid twerp.
DC> The only thing not meaningless here, dipdshit, is your fucking
DC> And you are that horses ass, Jimbo.
DC> you stupid twerp.
DC> The only thing not meaningless here, dipdshit, is your fucking
DC> And you are that horses ass, Jimbo.
DC> you stupid twerp.
DC> The only thing not meaningless here, dipdshit, is your fucking
DC> And you are that horses ass, Jimbo.
DC> you stupid twerp.
DC> The only thing not meaningless here, dipdshit, is your fucking
DC> And you are that horses ass, Jimbo.
Ahh...makes you proud, doesn't it, Dan? You are one bright boy. you
can't even spell your expletives properly...
... get real, get a crate and get reconciled to me, your statural superior
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|From: The Truth Teller
|To: FSNS Goliath BBS
|Sub: HA!
|Date: 25 Jan 96 03:58:08
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-=> Quoting FSNS Goliath BBS to All <=-
FGB> 3.3 Q: What kind of behavior is alowed here?
FGB> A: Most anything, including flames. One thing that will get
FGB> you booted is modification of other people's quotes. If
FGB> somebody says fuck and you quote them and change 'fuck' to
FGB> 'f***' or some other variation, you will be clobbered. Check
FGB> the rules (posted on an ad-hoc basis by the moderator) for
FGB> more information.
Unless you name is Rice in which case you have the right to alter posts
to your heart's content without any measure of censure taken against
you.
FGB> 3.4 Q: Are "flames" allowed?
FGB> A: Flames are EXPECTED. You will be treated with respect and
FGB> courtesy if you extend it.
Speak for yourself, machine. This is a lie!
FGB> The most valuable contributors,
FGB> who provide references to what they say, are very seldom
FGB> flamed -- if you don't like flames, stick to posting what you
FGB> know or can validate.
Only don't bother with references from the Bible. Only secular
philosophers will be respected. Theories and outright lies are welcomed
with respect as well, but don't you dare quote scripture if you value
yourself in any way.
FGB> 3.5 Q: Why is the phrases "You seem bitter" and "My, you're so full
FGB> of anger" so often used by religionists in HolySmoke?
FGB> A: These phrases are often used as replies to excessively
FGB> abrasive arguments by an agnostic or atheist that has
FGB> demonstrated the religionist's pet assertions false; the
FGB> religionist resorts to eliciting an emotional response
FGB> instead of addressing the topic at hand.
Another outright lie. These phrases are most often used in reply to
repeated personal assaults on the part of bitter atheist/pagans who
have no hope in life and therefore chose to abuse the intellect of
believers.
FGB> A: You may be missing the point. The people who are ridiculed
FGB> (as it were) are not those who profess a simple belief in a
FGB> creator; they are those who insist their beliefs are correct
FGB> and we MUST ALL bow down before GOD before we all roast in
FGB> Hell.
Another lie. It matters not one way or another. Say you believe, count
on being ridiculed. Even if you don't expect your antagonist to believe
(and say so) you still are a mindless automaton in their eyes and
mouth.
... get real, get a crate and get reconciled to me, your statural superior
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|From: Steve Wallis
|To: J.J. Hitt
|Sub: Holiday Greetings...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 01:24:00
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-=> Quoting J.J. Hitt to Steve Wallis <=-
JH>> Have any evidence of either?
SW> Read your Bible for proof of God. Open your eyes, breath a
SW> breath air. Look in the mirror, examine the world around
SW> you, look at the stars...look at the "Life"...
JH> Groovy... the "tweeting birds" argument.
SW> Open your eyes, breath a breath air.
JH> "breath a breath air" ?
SW> Look in the mirror,
JH> Looks like God needs to brush their hair... no wait, that's me.
JH> God looks like me? Why? Doesn't God have enough problems already?
SW> examine the world around you,
JH> There's the mirror, there's the sink... Yup, I'm in the bathroom.
SW> look at the stars...
JH> Ohmigod! It's full of stars!
SW> look at the "Life"...
JH> How did this breakfast cereal get in my bathroom?
SW> ...Look at your cemetary,
JH>
JH> I don't own a cemetery. I wish I did.
JH> People are just dying to get in them.
SW> look at the sin, look at the wickedness thats widespread,
SW> look at the deceptionin this world.
JH> So much for all the tweeting birds, huh?
JH> Sorry, sentimental clap-trap doesn't count as evidence.
Opinions vary, Let me ask you this then; What would it take to get you
to believe? If the only way your gonna believe is through "scientific
evidence" (so called anyway), then you have let the devil cheat you out
of your right to salvation.
Have a good day J.j. and Godbless!
Steve
... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Steve Wallis
|To: J.J. Hitt
|Sub: Judgement
|Date: 25 Jan 96 01:28:01
EID:ed3d 20390b80
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31076de3
-=> Quoting J.J. Hitt to Steve Wallis <=-
SW> May God remove the camaflouge and equip you with the
SW> knowledge of warfare. In Christ Jesus's name I pray.
JH> Fight, kill and mutilate for JESUS!
JH> YAY! YAY! YAY!
In the Bible it states "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war in
the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations,
and ever high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. And
bringing into captivity every thought to the obediance of Christ."
God loves you J.j. take care and Godbless!
Steve
... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Steve Wallis
|To: Dave Ray
|Sub: A LITTLE HELP FROM SP
|Date: 25 Jan 96 01:32:02
EID:21f7 20390c00
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31076de4
-=> Quoting Dave Ray to Steve Wallis <=-
-=> So Anyway, Steve Wallis turned to Dave Ray and babbled about <=-
=-> A LITTLE HELP FROM SP <=-
-=> Quoting Christian Miller to Gwenny the Pooh <=-
CM> On Tuesday, January 9th, 1996 - Gwenny the Pooh wrote:
Gt> I've been to many "revivals" in my life. At every one, they asked
Gt> for money. I'm not judging on just one, but on many.
CM> Gee, if your child asks for a candybar, do you always give 'em one?
CM> Same thing...
DR> Maybe in your simplified mind.
DR> But you can bet the preacher will have dinner with the person who
DR> turns in an envelope with $1,000 instead of someone who puts $10 in
DR> the envelope.
SW> Why would you say that? Do you know every single preacher? Not every
SW> one is money hungry. If they ask for a contribution, its probally
SW> becuase they need it.
DR> True, most mean well. But if the leaders of the church want to get
DR> rid of this image, they need to police themselves. Doctors do it, cops
DR> do it, even Congress does it with enough public pressure.
Well, its part of Christianity. Without the tithes and support from the
congregation of believers, there wouldnt be churches. If you believe in
something, why not support it? I dont know where you stand in regards
to Christianity, but even if your not a Christian and you here of a local
mission in your area to help feed the homeless or something like that,
wouldnt you help out if you could?
Take care guy, and Godbless!
Steve
... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Steve Wallis
|To: Preston Simpson
|Sub: ?
|Date: 25 Jan 96 01:38:03
EID:df9d 20390cc0
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31076de5
-=> Quoting Preston Simpson to Steve Wallis <=-
PS> Whilst noshing on a Twinkie, Steve Wallis mumbled "?"
DC>Your god is perfect, is he not? How can a perfect being not
DC>create something perfect?
SW> God created everthing in perfection and pure Holiness. However, He
PS> A claim. Substantiate it without the Bible, s'il vous plait.
My knowledge comes from the Word of God. I am not required to prove
anything to you. You have a mind and the ability to choose and believe
what you will. You can take God at His Word, or you can go in circles
looking for answers somewhere else. Its your choice Preston.
SW> created angels and mankind with the ability to choose whether to to
SW> good or evil. It's called freewill.
PS> Couldn't an omnipotent being have found a way to give us free will
PS> without letting us choose evil?
Nope. If God would have denied us our right to choose good or evil, it
wouldnt be a freewill and He would have infringed on our rights and
freedoms. God didnt want us to be robots, He created so we could choose
to follow Him and love Him out of our own free will.
SW> It says in John 3:3 "Eccept a man be born again, he cannot see the
SW> kingdom of God."
PS> A damned shame about all of those first century Peruvians and Chinese.
PS> They went to hell without ever getting a chance to hear about your
PS> god.
If they never had a chance to hear about Christ. Then when happens to them
is up to God. God is fair and just. He will judge everyone accourding to
what they know and have done. To him who has more, more will be required.
And to him who has little, less will be required.
SW> It's our choice to choose. We can choose to go to heaven or we can
SW> choose to go to hell. It boils down on our freewill.
PS> This is the same choice that a man confronted by a pistol-waving
PS> lunatic who wants his money has.
The difference is, your the only one holding the gun to your head. God
gave us the way out of this mess, when Jesus Christ died for us. God
loves us and doesnt want anyone to perish. The lake of fire was only meant
for the devil and his angels-not for man. God gave us the way out, but
we must do our part to recieve the gift that God gave us.
SW> God choose to send His Son to this world to pay the price for our
SW> sinfullness. But, we must excercise our freewill and choose whether
or
SW> not we accept the gift that God gave us or not. It boils down to our
SW> choice.
PS> Surely an allegedly omnibenevolent and omnipotent god could have found
PS> a better way to do this.
God could have forced you to accept Him, but what good would that do? Had
he done that, He would have infringed on your freewill. God is Holy and
a gentleman. He will not force Himself on you. If you dont want the gift
God gave you-its your choice, its still your right to recieve it. But
no ones gonna force it on you.
All we have to do to recieve the gift God gave us, is ask Christ to be Lord
and Saviour in our life. If we accept Christ as our personal Saviour then
we have confidence that we have been adopted as sons/daughters of God. If
we dont, then we are no better then what we were before.
Take it easy Preston, and Godbless!
Steve
... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Steve Wallis
|To: Preston Simpson
|Sub: Christian Miller's Christianity
|Date: 25 Jan 96 01:53:04
EID:6c88 20390ea0
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31076de6
-=> Quoting Preston Simpson to Steve Wallis <=-
PS> Whilst noshing on a Twinkie, Steve Wallis mumbled "Christian Miller's
PS> Christianity"
JH> Sex In Public Places 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> Romance Echo 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> CD/Book/Movie Review 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> Sexual Stories 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> Sexual Fantasies 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> CatNet BBS Ads 0 0 0 . .
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JH> Sexual Advice 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> 3 or Moresomes 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> S & M and B & D 0 0 0 . .
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JH> Adult Humor 0 0 1 . . 454.
JH> Married, Will Cheat 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> At The Bar 0 0 0 . .
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JH> CatNet SysOps Echo 0 0 0 . .
.
JH> Sex Toys 0 0 0 . .
.
PS>
JH> Totals: 248 248 2625 314856. 314856. 3587286.
JH> Of course, the more "interesting" areas are empty; but their very
JH> presence on a "Christian" BBS reflects directly on just what sort
JH> of character Mr. Miller actually is.
SW> Are you an ordained judge J.J.? Do you make a charge against Mr
SW> Miller? Or do you think you can mock Christ with your ridicule? It
PS> Who is mocking Christ? There's no profit in mocking the dead. However,
PS> when someone parades about a banner of spirituality and Christianity,
PS> he'd better damned well be able to support his claim by *acting* like
PS> it. Do those echoes above reflect a Christian morality?
True, there is no point in mocking the dead. But Christ is Alive and doing
well guy. For one thing, how do you know he was preaching against it and
hence had the echo's on it at one time? Im not saying this is the case
but why draw conclusions. They seem to be cut anyway. Im not gonna justify
it or condemn it-I am not the judge. And neither are you nor J.j. Is
Christian better than everyone? Or are you better than Christian? No. We
are all the same. As Christians we try to live in a way that is in
accourdance with the Word of God. It cant be done in mans strength, only
in the power of Christ. For instance, It say's in the Bible not to swear,
I myself swear quite abit. Does this mean im not a Christian? No. It simply
means that in my own strength, I can do nothing about it. I can try
harder and bite my tongue every time I swear, but its gonna continue until
I stop swearing by the power of Christ. Sin is all the same guy. There isnt
certain sins that are greater than others-there's no such thing as the
"little white lie". Its either sinful or its not. But who's to go to court
against Christian? As if none of you sin. Like it say's in the Bible,
he who is without sin, let him throw the first rock.
I see no reason to continue this particular thread against Christian. So,
why not drop the case and never mind about pulling the mote out of his
eye when you have a beem in your own. Im not perfect, and neither is anyone
else here in this echo. We are the same Preston.
Take care and Godbless..,
Steve
... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Steve Wallis
|To: Lynda Bustilloz
|Sub: COINCIDENCE SEVEN
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:08:05
EID:0aa2 20391100
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31076de7
-=> Quoting Lynda Bustilloz to Steve Wallis <=-
LB> Lynda and Steve were killing time yakking about COINCIDENCE SEVEN:
GR> But there is going to come a day when dad won't be there to solve the
GR> problems. As a parent I can do nothing less than prepare him for that
GR> day, and that means teaching him how to solve his own problems. It
GR> hurts to see him fail, it hurts to see him get frustrated, but it is
GR> worth that look on his face when he dusts himself off, with direction
GR> of course, and solves the problems.
GR> It isn't the easy way, but it is the correct way.
LB> George -- you just described perfectly the Christian concept of why
LB> God lets us make harmful mistakes (THE question flying around here
LB> recently). Do you feel you are a bad or neglectful parent when you
let
LB> your child fail? Do you get off on watching him suffer, or does it
LB> bother you as much as it bothers him?
SW> Lynda, what kind of mindframe to you have? From reading the above,
SW> George replied what any loving father would have said in bringing up
SW> ones son to maturity and adulthood. And then you replied with your
SW> idle two bit comment on "Do you get off on watching him suffer?" Why
SW> would you write a sick thing like that? May God provide you with wisdom
SW> and understanding.
LB> Steve, how do I put this gently? You're an idiot! You completely
LB> missed the point, you're boxing at shadows, and you win the prize for
LB> being the only person in this whole echo who didn't understand what
I
LB> said. Now, go sit in the corner and think about it for a couple of
LB> hours -- you're going to smack yourself silly when you finally figure
LB> out what I was referencing there. Hint -- once you get it, you'll find
LB> out you agree with the point I made.
Well Lynda, the way I interpreted it was a knock against him for the way
he chose to bring up his son. If you meant it another way then I apologize
for what I wrote. George spoke with maturity and knowledge and it seemed
you flamed him for that. I have read it over a few times and still cant
see
what you said you were saying but im just gonna leave it at that. Have
a good one and Godbless!
Steve
... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Marilyn Burge
|To: Judith Bandsma
|Sub: persevere
|Date: 25 Jan 96 06:11:18
EID:90e7 20393160
MSGID: 1:105/40.666 d5c50d54
REPLY: 1:372/57@fidonet.org 95a8bb34
On (08 Jan 96) Judith Bandsma wrote to Marilyn Burge...
-=> Quoting Marilyn Burge to Don Martin <=-
MB> We've sure gotten the mileage out of my word for the week, haven't
MB> we?
JB> Only another month and a half and 85 posts per day before Maria
JB> understands (or says she does) just where she screwed up.
And, as usual, I'm holding my breath waiting for the little
lightbulb to go on over her head.
... Guns don't kill. Hyper-velocity projectiles do.
--- PPoint 2.00
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|From: Marilyn Burge
|To: Judith Bandsma
|Sub: 325
|Date: 25 Jan 96 06:12:24
EID:18e6 20393180
MSGID: 1:105/40.666 5085def3
REPLY: 1:372/57@fidonet.org 4d3e5af2
On (09 Jan 96) Judith Bandsma wrote to Marilyn Burge...
-=> Quoting Marilyn Burge to Judith Bandsma <=-
MB> I think she's confusing whether it has tax-exempt status with
MB> the IRS and "legal."
JB> I saw later that she is posting from Canada...whole different
JB> ball of gods.
JB> As to myself, I REALLY want Quaker put on my papers. That
JB> way, if something happens to me, and someone feels the need
JB> to call in any kind of religious prop, I won't have to listen
JB> to all the prayers, exhortations, etc. I'll have someone
JB> sitting there without saying a word.
Years ago I had a friend (now dead) who had had a hysterectomy
years before I knew her. Her doctor explained to her exactly what
would happen in surgery, how she'd feel afterwards, etc., leaving
her in an it's-no-big-deal frame of mind prior to the big day. She
was Catholic, but, as is more traditionally the case with blacks,
her mother was a pentecostal of some kind. Louise was in her bed
in the hospital the night before the grand opening, when in walks
her mother with an entourage from her church. They started in
praying to gawd in the inimitable manner of all pentecostals, and,
more particularly, as only black pentecostals can do. "Oh lawd,
spare this child of yours from the valley of death through which
she will walk in the morning. Guide the surgeon's hand and lead
her safely through this ordeal" etc. By the time her mother,
friends in tow behind her, left the room, Louise was convinced her
doctor had lied to her about the seriousness of the operation and
her chances for coming through it, and she was terrified.
... Would it not be better to grow up rather than born again?
--- PPoint 2.00
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|From: Marilyn Burge
|To: Annette Spence
|Sub: HI
|Date: 25 Jan 96 06:18:52
EID:4719 20393240
MSGID: 1:105/40.666 7e80ae7a
On (24 Jan 96) Annette Spence wrote to Marilyn Burge...
MB> AS> In my opinion, evil is a choice not a thing to be invented.
AS> MB>
MB> Then how come Jehovah, in the first person, yet, bragged about
MB> having created it (in Isaiah)?
AS> I dunno...can you give me a passage so I can go look it up?
Are you trying to tell me that you've come on here, thinking
you can preach to the unwashed, and you don't even own a
concordance? You'd better buckle up. It's going to be a
rough ride.
Read the book of Isaiah. That's the only clue you get from me.
... Belief is acceptance without question. Thinking requires effort.
--- PPoint 2.00
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: STEVE QUARRELLA
|Sub: AL SCHRODINGER AND HIS PU
|Date: 24 Jan 96 19:52:00
EID:cad4 20389e80
SQ> He has MINE. He's not telling me how empty I am or how, if I kill
SQ> myself, I'm violating someone's rights. He just needs to remember the
SQ> BBS password that he forgot today (Hi, Al! I saw you. :).
I sure did. I dialed it, and stared...all my passwords fall in a certain
pattern, and for the life of me I couldn't remember where it fell in the
pattern.
... Not allowed? My dear fellow, I'm allowed everywhere. - Doctor Who
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: DAVID WORRELL
|Sub: COINCIDENCE SEVEN
|Date: 24 Jan 96 20:48:00
EID:7640 2038a600
AS> Let's hope we can get one of those things working before there is an
AS> enviormental collapse from overpopulation. It's a race against time.
DW> Don't let McCullough hear you say that. He'll regale you with the
DW> Wonders of Windmills.
That's okay. I'm all for using energy more efficiently and all that, but
I'm not a Luddite.
DW> Seriously, the government has its head up its ass where fusion
DW> research is concerned. They throw gobs of money at designs that
DW> simply do not work (they produce a sustained fusion reaction, but it
DW> takes more energy to contain the plasma than the reaction produces),
DW> while almost totally ignoring other designs that do show some promise.
DW> The Russian Tokamak is a good example. It uses a transformer core to
DW> "bend" the field lines to help contain the reaction, but the core gets
DW> saturated rather quickly and the whole thing has to shut down.
DW> In the stellarator, the same "bending" is accomplished by wrapping
DW> conductors around the surface of the donut that contains the plasma.
DW> These conductors do not get saturated, so the reaction is sustainable.
DW> When the feds built a stellarator, though, they couldn't decide
DW> whether it would be better to have 4 or 6 wires. They decided to build
DW> a hybrid monster that had 4 conductors around one side and six around
DW> the other side. What happened, you ask? The plasma shot out the
DW> junction between the two sides. Bureaucracies can fuck *anything* up.
Oy vey. Where is Thomas Edison when we need him? Scientific discovery by
committee. No WONDER we haven't gotten very far in forty-five years.
... Press any key to continue or any other key to give up.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: JOHN PREWETT
|Sub: FUNDAMENTALIST ARE IN
|Date: 24 Jan 96 21:15:00
EID:09af 2038a9e0
JP> The NT Christ doesn't teach that His people are ruled by a man in
JP> Rome.
But he instructed Peter, specifically, to "feed my lambs", to take care
of
Jesus' followers. And whose ring does the Pope have? No, I don't agree on
the primacy of the Pope, either. Just as I do not believe in the
DEMONIZATION of the Pope.
JP> If you believe the papacy is genuine,
JP> If you believe the papacy is really all it claims to be,
JP> then you should be a Roman Catholic
JP> and you should confess being a Roman Catholic.
But I do not admit to any of those "beliefs". Indeed it is CONTRARY to my
beliefs. But that doesn't mean I have to hate the guy or his followers.
The Dalai Lama of Tibetian buddhism, is an interesting, erudite man (his
FREEDOM IN EXILE is fascinating) and I can admire him without admitting
any spiritual superiority of his. Same with the Pope.
JP> And yes, the label "Christian" as it is commonly used,
JP> is commonly erroneously used to describe a lot of "apostates."
But Jesus will judge that. Obvious errors you must address, like a person
who uses the Bible to justify hate; other than that...
JP> That is, people who claim to believe in the NT Christ,
JP> yet demonstrate that they are really just man-pleasers
JP> who couldn't care less what the NT Christ teaches.
But Jesus ate with tax collectors, publicans, and sinners. He did not come
to help the spiritually healthy, but the spiritually sick.
JP> As demonstrated by "Christians" who evidently see no problem
JP> with a man in Rome being claimed [and taken seriously by millions
JP> for centuries] to have "FULL, SUPREME, and UNIVERSAL power
JP> over the whole Church."
I can disbelieve that claim yet still respect the individual. Or
DISRESPECT them, as the case may be, as you may remember from my posts
about the pope during World War II.
JP> A papacy supporter is a lie against Christ supporter.
Between 300 to 1500, papacy supporters were all you had, except for the
Greek Orthodox.
... "Nemo exspectat Inquisitionem Hispanicam!" --Montius Pythonius
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: JOHN PREWETT
|Sub: HEAVENLY DAZED
|Date: 24 Jan 96 21:19:00
EID:ecef 2038aa60
AS> (Gentle smile.) I am.
AS> You are like a mouse on a luxury liner,
AS> in the middle of the pacific, denying there is a boatbuilder.
AS> Thinking that living on such an artificial structure
AS> is "natural" because it's the only thing you know.
JP> Good analogy. WBW, John
Thanks.
... I used to believe in reincarnation, but that was in another life.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: JOHN PREWETT
|Sub: INTO.
|Date: 25 Jan 96 04:42:00
EID:52a1 20392540
AS> And the weirdest thing of all is how many predictions there
AS> have been about the end of the world and the antichrist.
JP> Proving nothing about my specific prediction.
True. But if a hundred predictions have been proven to fall through, you
can't blame us about being a little skeptical of the hundred-and-first.
JP> Most have been "antichrist." Just not the final "beast."
Possibly.
AS> And the more you predict it...Scripture says
AS> it will come in a time "unlooked for".
AS> The more you predict it, the more sure you make
AS> it that it will NOT happen when you think.
JP> A certain timing of the "rapture" has been proclaimed
JP> on "christian" TV for a couple of decades.
JP> That timing is wrong. Do you know what I am talking about ?
Hal Lindsey's prophecies, that sort of thing?
AS> The important thing is to live every day as if it might
AS> be the last in Time, and the first in Eternity.
JP> The important thing is to heed Christ.
Luke 17:22. "Then He said to His disciples, 'The time is coming when you
will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see
it. Men will tell you, 'There he is!' or 'Here he is!' Do not go running
off after them. For the Son of Man in His day will be like the lightning,
which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other." Luke 12:40,
"You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at a time when
you DO NOT EXPECT HIM." Matt 24:36."No one knows about that day or hour,
NOT EVEN THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN, NOT EVEN THE SON, but only the Father." I'm
not going to claim knowledge that Jesus HIMSELF admitted He didn't have
here on Earth.
I AM heeding Christ, John.
... "Thence we came forth to see the stars again." -- Dante
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: DAVID WORRELL
|Sub: INTO.
|Date: 25 Jan 96 04:51:00
EID:973e 20392660
AS>> out of our gourds. You assert that JFK will come back as the
AS>> Antichrist. You do realize that it makes you sound nuttier than a
AS>> jar of Planter's, don't you?
JP> Al, it's all wierd to heathens. WBW, John
DW> Welcome to the club. Pretty soon Jim-bob Billy-Ray Staal is gonna
DW> start accusing you of sucking up.
The depressing thing is, since Fido seems to be eating the posts that are
sent in Jim Staal's direction, he probably never saw those posts I sent
defending Lynda. But yeah, that's a strong possibility.
... Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: LUMP
|Sub: RE: JEEZOIDS
|Date: 25 Jan 96 04:53:00
EID:b231 203926a0
Lu> .......... .......... ......... .......... ....
Lu> ... .......... .......... ......... .......... .....
Lu> ... > ... > .. .. > ... > .. .. > ... ..
Lu> ... .......... .......... ... .......... ...
Lu> .. ... .......... .......... ... .......... ...
Lu> .. ... >> ... .. .. > ... > .. .. >
Lu> ... .. ... .......... .. .. ... .. ..
Lu> ... ..... .......... .. .. ... .. ..
Lu> ... ....
Lu> IS GEORGE RUDZINSKI!
Don't let Asmodeus know.
... The Modem Devil Made Me Do it! Really!!!
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: ANDREW MASTEN
|Sub: JESUS SAID "EAT ME!"
|Date: 25 Jan 96 04:57:00
EID:8e34 20392720
LB> It won't work, J.J. Until they've been consecrated, all you have is
a
LB> large quantity of tasteless wafers, and overpriced ones at that, no
LB> doubt. Stick with Townhouse crackers. :)
AM> Your just a sick man. Why not have a nice hot cup of
AM> pre-biotic soup?
Man?????
Lynda's a lady.
... Last time you knew all the answers, you were wrong...
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: LYNDA BUSTILLOZ
|Sub: JESUS SAID "EAT ME!"
|Date: 25 Jan 96 05:01:00
EID:46c2 20392820
LB> WEll, you could try that -- but if you're out to shock anyone who
LB> might worry about it, they won't consider 'em valid. Like I said, J.J.
LB> -- this one won't work. Darned near every altar boy has at one time
or
LB> another snacked on a few wafers. (G)
Yeah, JJ hit a dead nerve on his one. Anyone who considers a priest really
able to consecrate them will know that JJ can't consecrate 'em. For that
matter, my brother's drinking problem started when, as an alter boy, they
had to finish off the rest of the consecrated wine because not a drop can
be wasted after it's consecrated. (In my current church, they use matzoh
crackers and grape juice. Not the same, but doesn't lead to any drinking
problems, either.)
... Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: DAN CEPPA
|Sub: LEAF ME ALONE.
|Date: 25 Jan 96 05:06:00
EID:26d3 203928c0
DC> weren't doing their job. Seems like the students got really upset
DC> as they all decided to leave from their senseis..
ML> To make matters worse, they invaded a library and took pages
ML> from every book by Maurice (a well know author of children's
ML> works). Yep...they took leaves from the Sendak.
DC> Then there were the astronomers that decided they not only
DC> couldn't get the math right, but it was getting too late...
DC> They look leave from their ascendances.
And then there were the literature profs who decided that grammer was too
conventional, and wrote freeform prose, a la James Joyce, without periods,
exclamation points, or conventional sentence structure.
They took leave of their syntax.
... Dr. Jack took his own appendix out. His nurse said "Suture self."
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: KATHERINE WINTERSNIGHT
|Sub: PAGANI/WICCA RACISTS?
|Date: 25 Jan 96 06:35:00
EID:f04e 20393460
KW> Well..., I don't think that even the mormons can beat us in the
KW> category of high camp ridiculous arguments. You haven't lived
KW> until you've been part of group negotiating out a joint ritual, and
had
KW> one of the priests draw himself up and sneer 'wand wielder'. Or found
KW> yourself totally seriously debating brown vs green vs black for the
KW> north. Or wether black is allowable\acceptable for robes ('they'll
KW> think that we are satanists!' 'So what???') Or if Lorna Doones and
KW> Hi-C are acceptable for the Cakes and Wine. It's odd, but witch wars
KW> can erupt over the silliest things (*sniff!* She uses a drum with a
KW> PLASTIC head!!!).
That's what you GET for having all priests and no laity....
... Chocolate cures all.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: STEVE ROSE
|Sub: PERCEPTION OF THE FUNDY
|Date: 25 Jan 96 06:42:00
EID:c9eb 20393540
AS> Sometimes pomposity should be punctured. Sometimes acting like a
AS> juvenile should be jarred, too.
SR> But nothing beats pushing an obnoxious fundy down a flight of stairs
SR> and screaming it was his gawd that made him fall. Sounds great in an
SR> empty stairwell...where the echos of his screams are long and loud.
SR> :)
(Gentle smile.) And if they're in a wheelchair, it will make it even
BETTER, right?
You can certainly try it around ME. I would invite you to. You would
ONLY do it once, I guarentee it.
But of course you're all talk and no action. If you pushed someone down
a flight of stairs, no one would blame God, they'd blame YOU, and you
would be arrested for maliscious assault.
Grow up. That sort of thing is about as "adult" as Asmodeus thinking it
is okay to steal from people he hates.
... I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: J.J. HITT
|Sub: RE: SATANIST
|Date: 25 Jan 96 07:00:00
EID:7faa 20393800
As>> I practise the sins in ways that harm no one who does not
As>> deserve it. So if someone has won my anger, and I rip him
As>> off, this is a good thing, for I get some cool shit and
As>> because of his/her loss s/he become hurt just a little.
AS> Congratulations. You have even sunk LOWER in my estimation.
AS> Hard to do.
JH> And that without anyone even accusing him. He just comes out
JH> of the complete blue and brags about being a thief in an
JH> international echo.
Hmmm. I'm trying to think. Aren't you into the second curse phase now? (Of
course, Fidonet seems to be messing up messages. But they seem to be
hitting you more than me. Maybe it's a diversionary tactic? Maybe he's
REALLY concentrating on me...)
JH> That puts him even lower than Don Ward.
JH> VERY VERY HARD to do.
I'd rate him a little ahead of Lammon and Tomkat (remember them?) simply
because he mainly seems callow and self-centered, rather than hate-filled.
Grigor-Scott seems way ahead of him in hate, but much more intelligent.
So he still hasn't reached rock bottom.
Yet.
JH> But, on the bright side of all this: as long as Asomdeus sticks
JH> around no one can accuse me of only harassing Christians.
That's for sure! And I get to join in the general razzing for a change,
since I have little use for the Satanic Bible (which doesn't mean it
wouldn't be interesting to talk to a GENUINE Satanist--i.e., one who
worships Satan as an actual entity---rather than a shallow little hedonist
who calls himself a Satanist.) and those who follow same.
In fact, there has been more general invective against Asmodeus than
most fundies here. When Hector and I agree on a person....that SAYS
something!
... There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: LYNDA BUSTILLOZ
|Sub: SPONG ON THE CREEDS 2
|Date: 25 Jan 96 07:06:00
EID:523d 203938c0
HP> And women love a hero. Often literally enough to lead to
HP> reproduction. Anyone familiar with the way natural selection works
HP> (which would seem to let Al off the hook) should be able to figure out
HP> an obvious connection. :-)
AS> You think all women are carbon copies of Lois Lane? A lot of women
AS> feel that heroism is great (as do men) but yet you don't see hordes
of
AS> groupies around a police station or firehouse. Nor do I notice that
AS> policemen or firemen have substantially lower divorce rates than other
AS> men...quite the opposite, in fact. (Ditto for firewomen and
AS> policewomen.)
LB> As do EOD -- a horrifying 80% divorce rate, in fact. Heroism is a
LB> very nice attracter, but it can make the long haul a bit difficult --
LB> most women like to feel reasonably secure that their lifemate won't
LB> wind up in a body bag in the near future.
Right. Notice the stories where women love a dashing hero who consistently
risks his life is usually written by MEN. Dorothy L. Sayers, in her Lord
Peter Wimsey series, had him meet the love of his life (a detective story
writer modeled on Sayers) when she was being tried for murder, had to have
Wimsey save her by finding the real murderer. And then she spent FOUR
NOVELS trying to get the love affair past that initial awkwardness,
because she knew that a true love affair cannot begin with a humiliating
feeling of gratitude. He makes the point over and over, as he consistently
proposes to her, that if they had met any other way, without this crushing
burden of feeling "grateful" that she resented, they would have got along
famously long ago! (He did finally marry her, of course...and during the
honeymoon they fond a corpse. Such are the reality of mystery
stories...)
... Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: STEVE QUARRELLA
|Sub: STAAL SHOWS HIS COLORS
|Date: 25 Jan 96 07:09:00
EID:39fb 20393920
-=> Quoting Steve Quarrella to Jim Staal <=-
SQ> On 8 Jan 96 11:18am, Jim Staal wrote to Fredric Rice:
JS> May I suggest 'Blue Wave' for your offline reader? You will no longer
JS> have that problem as it does it for you.
SQ> Bite me! I'm already working on him with Silver Xpress, but
SQ> Fred's not an OLR type of guy.
HUH???? He answers these ON-LINE? Or am I misunderstanding you?
... Wonderful chap, The Doctor. All of them. - Brig. L. Stewart
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: ZAYD ALLEBBAN
|Sub: THE ULTIMATE SHIT LIST -
|Date: 25 Jan 96 07:14:00
EID:9b04 203939c0
ZA> David, you're real funny. Since you obviously don't believe in God
ZA> while I do, you stay with your beliefs and I'll stay with mine. I
ZA> haven't mocked your beliefs, so you better not mock mine. I won't
ZA> stand for this blasphemy and if you don't want to carry on a civilized
ZA> discussion, I don't want to hear from you again.
A little clue; and I am a Christian believer, not an Islamic one. In this
echo ALL gods are mocked. If you can't stand the blasphemy, this echo is
NOT for you. It's sort of a giant religious food fight. I like it simply
because everybody is fairly frank, but it's not for the easily offended.
... Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.-Ausonius
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: MARTIN GOLDBERG
|Sub: THUMB-SUCKING FUNDY
|Date: 25 Jan 96 07:24:00
EID:52d8 20393b00
MG> If Al admits to there being almost no life int he universe, he has to
MG> start questioning his god's motives. That'll be a tough one.
Two things; as I said before, a universe this old, and since it is
expanding, this large, is necessary for just ONE civilization to exist.
(Enough time for the higher elements to be generated in the first stars,
explode as supernova, etc.) I hope you are wrong and life is very
prevelent (and by that I mean perhaps one life-bearing world every twenty
or so stars between K and F in the stellar sequence, for instance) but the
fact remains, a universe this big would be NECESSARY for even JUST us to
exist. Again, life spreads. If indeed we are the only, we might be like
the first self-reproducing molecules on the early earth. We'll spread.
Whether you believe in a closed or open universe, it's pretty clear that
the time before the Big Crunch in the first case is WAAAAAAYYYY longer
than the time since the Big Bang. We are still in the early morning of the
cosmic "day". And to an eternal, omnipotent (in the sense of all power is
his) being, what is "wasteful?" So the rest of the universe, if there is
no other life, might be for the sheer beauty and joy of the creation.
I hope not. I hope we have company. I can get along quite well with either
stand. And my theology need be affected by neither.
BTW, Tipler made the observation that most biologists and cosmologists
think intelligent life might be fairly common, most biologists think that
intelligent life depends on so many interlocking variables that they think
it would be pretty rare. Where do you stand?
... If the universe is expanding, why can't I find a parking space?
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: KATHERINE WINTERSNIGHT
|Sub: TOLERANCE
|Date: 25 Jan 96 07:52:00
EID:2b99 20393e80
KW> avoid mother's eyes. However, there was a problem. "Where you aware"
KW> she asked, "that your Mary looks Jewish?"
LOL!!!! ROFL!!!!!!! (Pounding floor).
Gotta lovit. Thanks, Katherine. Best laugh I've had all day.
... I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: DAVID WORRELL
|Sub: WACO JURY FOREMAN COMENTS
|Date: 25 Jan 96 08:12:00
EID:d0d2 20394180
If there's one thing worse than meeting Cthulhu in a dark alley,
it's
DW> meeting the mean, nasty fuck who can manage to *crucify* Cthulhu.
There is a DC Comics hero named the Spectre. A hard-bitten police
lieutnant who got killed by criminals, God gave him powers to stay on
Earth as a ghost until all--not just some, not just the greater part, but
ALL--evil was eliminated from the Earth. He was created in the late
thirties by Jerry Siegal, the guy who created Superman, and the idea if
a
little is good, a lot is BETTER. The Spectre could LITERALLY do anything.
He could grow cosmically huge and throw stars around. He had no
weaknesses, per se. His battles were pretty short, because who could stand
up to him? He has fought numerous Cthulhu look-alikes and ate them for
breakfast, practically. He woudl be published for a while, and then people
would stop buying for lack of suspense (for one thing, how do you kill
someone who's already dead?) but because the idea had some appeal, he
would be brought back...his latest run has lasted a while, mainly because
of some excellent writing by John Ostrander, who realized causing the
Spectre psychological distress was the main way you could attack an
omnipotent being...it's now one of the better comics out there. Spectre
has a "Dirty Harry" mentality and is NOT the sunshiny guy Superman is, and
there was an interesting issue where the Archangel Michael and the Spectre
duked it out in front of the gates of Heaven...the one place Spectre is
not allowed until he "finishes his mission."
... Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat....
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: FREDRIC RICE
|Sub: WHITE-LIGHTER RELIGIO
|Date: 25 Jan 96 08:35:00
EID:c37f 20394460
FR> Asmodeus
A> For future reference: I WILL NOT RESPOND TO YOU IF YOU
a> WRITE OFF-TOPIC to David Worrell <=-
A> AGAIN. NOW FOR MY ANSWER:
as> Ooooohhhh, David, he's having an ABSOLUTE hissy-fit. What a threat!
FR> That's nothing. He "cursed" JJ Hitt -- just like any Christian with
FR> his back to a wall. I asked for one. }:-}
I will ignore the "any Christian with his back to the wall" since you have
publicly admitted not to take your statements seriously. Yeah, JJ have
been talking a LOT about the "curse"--he should have smited one with a
second curse by now. Evidently Fido is eating some of my posts---some
people are seeing them, others aren't---and unfortunately, Asmy is either
ignoring me or not getting my taunts. Since I DO belong to a "white
lighter" religion in his view, I would have been especially interested.
FR> I have to wonder. This "asmodeus" clown is probably 15 or 16 years
FR> old and read Anton LeVey's "Satanic Bible" once and just doesn't have
FR> a clue.
He claims to be eighteen, I think. Certainly he has the MENTALITY of a
fifteen year old (which is when I read the SATANIC BIBLE, hoping for the
Lesser Key of Solomon, with conjurations and stuff, and instead getting
a
tract with is a paen to hedonism.). I'm sorry, anyone who can take such
a
shallow and self-centered and hedonist philosophy as Lavey's seriously
just exposes their own callowness. I would be interested in talking to a
Satanist who actually believes in Satan, but Asmy (like his mentor Lavey)
hasn't a clue.
But he HAS been highly entertaining. And for once I get to razz him with
the best of 'em!!!
Just curious. Never noticed it before, but Steve mentioned something,
and by gum, he seems to be right, given the information at the bottom of
the post...you do this WITHOUT an off-line reader? You do this all
on-line? Or do you perhaps just capture it to the buffer and read it at
your leasure? Just curious.
... Where do people in hell tell each other to go?
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: DAVID WORRELL
|Sub: WHY
|Date: 25 Jan 96 08:40:00
EID:0647 20394500
AS> Funny. Fred Rice told me that he had NEVER felt despair.
DW> For one thing, you shouldn't take Fred so seriously.
Yeah. Hopelessly naive. I tend to take people at face value until they
prove otherwise. Then I read a post of his where he admits not to take
what he says seriously. So there is no need to even pay attention to his
taunts, or his "better educated" gibes, because I will never know when I
am speaking to the REAL Fred, or just his put-on persona.
DW> Have you ever considered the fact that his definition of despair might
DW> differ from yours? Most of the sob stories I've heard from Christians
DW> do not fall under my definition of despair.
Don made the same point; I meant despair as the feeling you get when you
are in a hopeless situation, where you can't see any way out. I think a
lot of us have been in that position at one time or another. That doesn't
mean you think LIFE is hopeless, though, just that particular situation.
... Epitaph: So then I says, "How do I know you're the real angel of death
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: JOHN PREWETT
|Sub: APOSTATE
|Date: 25 Jan 96 09:14:00
EID:33f7 203949c0
JP> Subject: Epistemology
JP> To: Marilyn Burge From: Lynda Bustilloz Date: 12/12/95 06:03:07
JP> Lynda and Marilyn were killing time yakking about Epistemology: LB>
JP> [-------------] MB> [-------------]
LB> If I was forced to accept the flood, the Garden of Eden,
LB> and yes, the detailsof Jesus's birth or toss the whole thing out,
LB> I too would be forced into the latter stance, because the only way
LB> to believe in the literal truth of those portions would be to
LB> undergo voluntary lobotomy. I am no longer even capable
LB> of faking such a belief, and I'm not going to ask God
LB> to make me stupid to accomplish it.
JP> ----------------------- snip --------------------------
JP> "....voluntary logotomy" ".....stupid"
JP> LB basically declares Bible believers to be brainless.
No; she IS saying that to believe in a literal flood entails, for
instance, God working so many simultaneous miracles to HIDE THE EVIDENCE
of such, that God, if he DID flood the earth literally to the extent
mentioned in the Bible, then He is either LYING in effect by removing all
evidence of it happening...and why would He do that? What compulsion would
be under Him to hide the evidence of such a happening? Who would He be
afraid of? The lack of desposits that would indicate a tremendous flood
in
the geological record has been enumerated many times. Or, contrariwise,
the Garden of Eden story entails, if taken too literally, a creation in
six days and a unbroken human history from that time. Again, that violates
all the evidence we have uncovered. And if you believe an Ussherian time
line, it means that any star we see that is more than six thousand light
years away is a LIE. It's not there, or if it is, we are not seeing the
light from that star, but an image created to represent it.
As you know, from your knowledge of Scripture, God CANNOT lie. And I
think it is the higher blasphemy to say that God is setting up ten
thousand red herrings around the earth DELIBERATELY TO MISLEAD MEN. Nor
do
I believe Satan can have created such, that is the Manichearean
heresy, that Satan is a demiurge with creative powers. I cannot read
either statement too literally without coming up with the idea that God
lies...either there was a flood, and a special onetime creation in six
days and He hid all the evidence, or He is lying about the early parts of
Genesis. That's why I CANNOT read it literally.
However, if I read the Garden of Eden as a metaphor or parable for a
deeper truth God is telling us about the nature of God and Men, or the
Flood as using a tale of a flood (current in Middle Eastern traditions at
the time when it was written down) to explain and prefigure God's eventual
judgement of all mankind...certainly it would be consistent with Jesus,
who I believe was God, and HIS use of parables. Nor does using a story to
tell an eternal truth make the story a lie...anymore than the story of the
Prodigal Son is a lie.
NOW, I do not EXPECT YOU TO AGREE. I do think there is certainly room
for argument here, and respectful disagreement. Certain subjects I think
I
take more literally than Lynda does--certain parts of the nativity,
perhaps even the Resurrection in some respects myself. I certainly take
them more literally than Spong, judging solely by what's quoted here, and
bearing in mind I haven't read as much of him as Lynda or Micheal have.
But that doesn't mean I think Lynda isn't a good Christian. Albert
Schweitzer did not believe that Jesus was a miracleworker, or literally
rose from the dead. He thought Jesus was the best of men, and most
exemplifies the Divine in man. And he then went and spent his life helping
sick African children in Gabon. Do I think he was wrong in his views of
Jesus. Yes. Do I think Schweitzer was a Christian, in that as best as he
understood them, he followed the precepts of Christ? Yes I do. Certainly
he did more to help others than I have ever done. As far as I can judge,
Lynda is a MORE literal Christian than Spong and Schweitzer.
I think ALL of us will be shown to be wrong in some respects in our
opinions about God and Jesus. Which is as it should be; no finite mind can
hold the Infinite. That does not mean we need say "any stand goes". But
we
can disagree without getting rancorous.
JP> She doesn't just disagree with ordinary bible believers.
JP> She publicly holds them in contempt.
She is saying what it would be for HER to accept such; to someone who did
not know as much about astromony, geology, and biology as Lynda, it would
not entail such.
JP> Maybe you can distinguish her attitude from that of a typical
JP> heathen, but I don't see any significant difference.
I do; remember how she blasted Maria for doing something that would drive
others AWAY from Jesus' love? There she thundered and preached with the
best of them, about driving others away from "her Savior's love". It was
a
very revealing moment. And spoke well of Lynda. Jesus said much the same
thing to the Pharisees.
... You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforwardly wrong.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: LYNDA BUSTILLOZ
|Sub: A DAY IN THE LIFE...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 09:22:00
EID:1fe5 20394ac0
LB> While I was just a baby during the Cuban Missle Crisis, I grew up
LB> right outside of Offutt AFB in Omaha ("Ground Zero"). Remember that
LB> wonderful useless advice we were given? "Look away." "Duck under your
LB> desk" Yeah, right.
LB> We'd have been shadows on the ground. My dad didn't pull any punches
LB> -- I asked him what would happen to us if one hit (he worked
LB> underground, so if he was at work at the time, presumably he'd have
LB> survived). He said, "Honey, you'd be toast." Oddly enough, it was
LB> alot more comforting to hear that, than to have the teachers give
LB> advice better suited to a minor tornado -- I KNEW they were lying or
LB> wrong, and his answer sounded alot more realistic.
I remember a comic called "I SAW IT"...a Japanese comic, by a cartoonist
who was a schoolchild in Hiroshima when the bomb fell, and was saved by
being behind a wall. When he came to, hours later, people were walking
around, their skin melted and hanging in large folds off them, burned
black, muttering, "Help me"....he told how it affected his life, how he
buried his father's bones weeks later, after the fires had died down. Done
in a cartoony style like much of Japanese stuff (like Astroboy) which made
the subject matter all the more riveting.
I still have it. I show it to my nine-year-old. It's something, like the
Holocaust, that should not be forgotten.
... In an atomic war, all men will be cremated equal.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: JOHN PREWETT
|Sub: ASKING SILLY QUESTIO
|Date: 25 Jan 96 10:12:00
EID:3aa0 20395180
AS> Of course. But John...it's been thirty years.
JP> Yep.
JP> ".....that he WAS and IS NOT and WILL COME."
JP> "The beast that you saw was and is not, and is about to come up out
JP> of the abyss and to go to destruction. And those who dwell on the
JP> earth will wonder, whose name has not been written in the book of
JP> life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast, that
JP> he was and is not and will come. Rev. 17:8
Excellent! Now, did you perhaps know that Nero was so hated that many
Romans refused to believe he was dead? That some thought he had fled to
their rival empire, the Parthians, and would lead them in to destroy the
empire?
AS> How long, according to your theory,
AS> will it be before JFK returns and deceives us all?
JP> Before Kissinger croaks. I think before the year 2000.
Well, at least it's a definite, falsifiable prediction. (That's a
compliment, BTW.) If Kissinger croaks without anything happening, would
you abandon your theories? Not saying you have to, just curious.
AS> And do you really think even JFK reappearing
AS> would cause anything but shock and horror?
JP> What do YOU believe the Revelation 13-20 is talking about ?
Glad you asked! Most of what I am about to say is NOT mine. It comes from
Dr. Bill Goree, a professor at David Lipscomb University, a religious
university (Church of Christ) and, incidentally, an elder at my particular
church. I am not following him because he is an elder at my church,
BTW...there's another elder whose theories on other things I wouldn't
trust very much---but because they make sense. (It might be noted that the
Church of Christ, or Cambellites, are regarded as fairly conservative
among Christians.)
I think most of Revelations had to be prophecies ADDRESSED TO THE FIRST
CENTURY CHRISTIANS, the audience they were intended for. That we MUST
examine the audience whom John was addressing PRIMARILY, to get the
meaning. So most of the metaphorical language (and I'm sure we can both
agree that much of the language is metaphorical...that the stars will not
literally fall from the sky, etc.) is a code written by John (or dictated
to a disciple, since the style is so different from John's epistles and
Gospels) to superficially not give away what he was saying to any Roman
eyes that might light upon it. He wrote it, according to all the accounts.
late in the century, after Nero's persecutions and it wouldn't take much
of a prophet to see the next persecution, Trajan's, beginning to gear up.
I think (as many other here in this echo have) that John, when he talks
of the Beast, is talking about Roman Emperors. Certainly the memory of the
excesses of Nero would be fresh with him, and some of the later ones
almost matched Nero and Caligula for infamy. "Anyone who refused to
worship the statue of the beast was put to death" for instance, Rev 13:15,
sounds very much like the reason many of the martyrs were put to the
death, for refusing to worship the Emperor. Nontheists can see some of
these things as shrewd guesses, but I have no trouble with actual
revelations from God. For instance, the sign "to be branded on the hand
or
on the forehead, and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything
unless he had been branded with the name of the beast of the number of its
name." There was a time (remembering his lessons, but not able to quote
exactly) in the third? century that one had to produce a paper from the
goverment proving that you had engaged in approved practices to sell or
buy things at ports, etc. Which included Emperor-worship. Which put
Christians at a horrible disadvantage. "Babylon" is code for Rome, of
course...notice the whore sitting on the "seven hills". The mourning for
the fall of Babylon...one remembers how the fall of Rome struck terror in
the heart of the ancient world, at least the civlized part.
Now SOME of it, I will concede (as will Dr. Goree) talks about the end
times. "There will be a new heaven and a new earth", there will be "no
more tears", etc. But I think the majority of plagues, famines, etc., is
talking about travails in the later Empire. The insects who looked like
horses, only with armored upper parts....metaphorical for the Parthians,
Rome's neighboring empire, and one of the their greatest threats. Armored,
mounted on horseback, the description would fit pretty well. (I
asked him if he believed that the "new heaven and earth" might be
metaphorical for the legalization of Christianity under Constantine. He
smiled and said, "But God hardly wiped away every tear after that, did
he?") He feels, from long study of the subject (he teaches history for
the most part) that often some of the repitions and numbers mentioned are
typical of Jewish apocalyptic literature, that such numbers as "seven"
indicated completeness, etc.
JP> AGE is nearly irrelevant. God has ordained this person.
JP> Same God that has women having babies at outrageous ages.
JP> Same God that used to have people living 700 years.
But surely he must be plausible to THIS generation...if these are the last
days.
JP> The Revelation "beast" has all of Satan's power.
The Roman Emperor's had many of the world's lands under their direct
control. Remember the final temptation Satan gave Jesus, "All these will
I
give you, if you will fall down and worship me." If any class of people
ever showed "absolute power corrupts absolutely," it was the Roman
Emperors. And I would include Constantine, since he ordered his son and
one of his wives killed.
JP> The "beast" will appear vigorous. Sharp. Witty. Brilliant.
So did many of the Roman Emperors.
JP> The leaders of EVERY form of organized religion on earth will be
JP> telling their flocks that the "beast" is a "heavenly miracle."
You will notice that the Romans let other people keep their own worship,
as long as they INCORPORATED Emperor-worship into it. The Jews are the
only exception I know of.
JP> [those who oppose the "beast" will lose their positions within
JP> the organizations,.... and lose their earthly lives as well]
Again, read Pliny the Younger to read accounts of Christians being killed
for not worshipping the Emperor and refusing to disavow Christ. Which
happened a decade or two in John's future...
AS> Given the revelations about his many affairs, do you really think
AS> they will embrace him as a holy man? Even if he did reappear?
JP> The worldly do not want a "holy" leader.
Well, if he DID reappear from the dead, wouldn't that be proof of some
sort of supernatural event?
JP> JFK's history is PERFECT for the final "beast."
So is Nero's.
JP> You can't start a mass movement by sheer/mere assertion of something
JP> that EVERYBODY is firmly convinced is untrue/impossible.
AS> Although Joseph Smith (Mormonism) came close....
JP>
JP> Nearly everyone is convinced [via TV, mainly] that JFK
JP> was in the casket that went from Dallas to Bethesda,
JP> and that JFK's bod is in the casket that went in the ground.
JP> [though only a handful of person ever had FIRST HAND
JP> knowledge of what, if anything, was/is in either casket]
And NO one questioned someone taking away the body of a beloved president?
(They may have hated him in life...many did...but I remember Kennedy's
assasination well. I remember how quickly Kennedy went from the "guy who
bungled the Bay of Pigs" to "Johnny, we hardly knew ye."
JP> Joseph Smith definitely beat the odds,.... but note that J.Smith
JP> wasn't opposing a belief that the population had previously been
JP> specifically and explicitly convinced was untrue.
Hmmm. Which belief are you talking about?
... Some folks look for answers...others look for fights...
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: LYNDA BUSTILLOZ
|Sub: DEFINITIONS FOR JIM
|Date: 25 Jan 96 10:16:00
EID:8f36 20395200
LB> *sigh* Is that an admission, finally? Jim, Al asked you politely if
LB> this was the case -- I can understand you refusing to admit it to
LB> anyone else, but why didn't you answer when you were asked civilly?
Well, in another post, he admitted he was Lou. But he evidently has not
been receiving my replies (others have obviously seen them, like you) and
sent me a post about that. And I DO believe him. Dan said much the same
thing about not seeing posts from me. But Jim DID see Judith's reply to
a
post I sent to Jim. Bizarre. Fidonet works in mysterious ways....
... Don't mind me; I'm the designated drunk.
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|From: AL SCHROEDER
|To: JOHN PREWETT
|Sub: LYNDA GOES OVER...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 10:19:00
EID:433f 20395260
AS> Jim; she's joking. And after all, it was not SHE who first
AS> said she was "sucking up" to the nonbelievers on this echo.
JP> It was not SHE who first treated fellow avowed Christians
JP> with contempt.
On the contrary, John; she has treated SOME with contempt. Some she has
been unfailingly nice to. Isn't the brotherhood of Christians large enough
to encompass a wide variety of viewpoints...such as many in the churches
that Paul corrected, who went MUCH farther astray, whom he still addresses
as "brothers"?
If she is spending more time criticizing religious hypocrisy (as she
sees it) than unbelievers, than certainly she is doing EXACTLY WHAT JESUS
DID! Count the number of times He talks about unbelievers, compared to the
number of times He mentions the hypocrisies of the Pharisees and the
Sadduccees.
And...quite FRANKLY, John...coming from someone who reguarly paints the
largest group of "fellow avowed Christians" which is the CATHOLIC CHURCH,
with less than complimentary colors (Well? Whether you think they are or
not, they certainly AVOW themselves to be.) you better remove the
four-by-four from your eye before you try to talk about the speck in hers.
JP> [whether to suck up to heathens, or for whatever reason]
Maybe because it was her honest opinion? Maybe because her interpretation
of the Bible--and that is all either of you have--is diffferent from
yours?
AS> If you WANTED to drive a believer into becoming an unbeliever,
AS> I can think of no better way to do so:
JP>
JP> She already proudly claims to be an unbeliever,
Unfortunately, that is a lie. She doesn't believe every word of Scripture
is the literal truth. Well...there are a lot of us who think some things
in the Bible are parable and metaphor, which does not detract from the
ETERNAL TRUTH of their lesson. Unless you think there really WAS a
prodigal son, exactly as Jesus described...?
JP> and is a constant basher of believers.
John, quite frankly, when Creationists (like the ICR) come on and try to
twist scientific fact to fit their interpretation of the Bible, they are
LYING for God...or their religion. As C.S. Lewis said, "Lying for your
religious beliefs may help your religion. It certainly isn't helping God."
See the difference?
JP> So very liberal "christian."
John, perhaps you would do better to ASK her if there is any scriptural
basis in what she believes? I'm certain she has backing for everything she
believes.
... Unpopular Bible Fact: Hatred of others is unChristian. (1 John 4)
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Preston Simpson
|Sub: A LITTLE HELP FROM SP
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:30:14
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21 Jan 96 15:40, Preston Simpson wrote to David Worrell:
PS>> I don't give for money, partly because most of the places that
PS>> pay are in parts of town that I wouldn't enter without a few
PS>> firearms and a tank.
DW>> I used to *live* in some of those parts of Memphis (really low
DW>> rent). You don't know what you're missing... :)
PS> I'd rather continue in my ignorance.
Been attending church, Preston? :)
BTW, why haven't you joined us on IRC?
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Preston Simpson
|Sub: A LITTLE HELP FROM SP
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:31:49
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21 Jan 96 15:40, Preston Simpson wrote to David Worrell:
DW>> Hell, fun doesn't begin to describe it. I once damn near
DW>> destroyed my back. My mother and sister had to pick me up and
DW>> carry me to mom's car (I'm 6'3", 220 lbs. while both my mother
DW>> and sister are under 5'8" - I'm sure it was an amusing spectacle
DW>> for any spectators). An
PS> Staal will be upset--you're only 4 inches shorter and 45 lbs. lighter
PS> than he is.
That's amazing, considering how empty his head is.
PS> (personal aside--you didn't sound that big over the phone,
PS> but I've been wrong about such things before)
What did I sound like, Urkel?
HOw does one "sound" big? ;)
PS> And how does one go about damn near destroying a back?
Place a box on the ground. THe box should be a 4" cube and weigh over thirty
pounds. Bend at the waist to pick it up, using one hand. It helps if you've
led a rough life to begin with, and your back isn't it the best shape already.
Both the osteo and a neurosurgeon I visted later tell me I'm going to have
to have surgery eventually. The prospect of spending six weeks flat on
my back doesn't make me very happy...
PS> ... My other computer is a VAX.
UT has decided to kill its VAX. Now I have to interact with the geeky-assed
UNIX.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Lynda Bustilloz
|Sub: Angles exists
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:16:09
EID:3cf5 20397200
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24 Jan 96 00:00, Lynda Bustilloz wrote to Sue Armstrong:
SA>> The only time "angles" intervened in my life was in
SA>> math class, and their sole raison d'etre seemed to be to annoy
SA>> the shit out of me and ensure I got a "D".
LB> Guess you didn't have a guardian angle, huh?
I did, but he was rather obtuse.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Judith Bandsma
|Sub: CENSUS
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:17:21
EID:f6bb 20397220
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 31079144
22 Jan 96 17:53, Judith Bandsma wrote to Michael Hardy:
MH>> In fact, the Romans *did* require people to travel to their
MH>> birthplace in order to register for a census. A census edict
JB> That quote doesn't say anything about returning to a birthplace...and
Does Mikey think that the Romans forced people who were born outside the
empire to leave during the census? Does Mikey *think* before he posts this
nonsense?
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|From: David Worrell
|To: J.J. Hitt
|Sub: Christian Miller's Christianity
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:33:10
EID:f0b8 20391420
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106ec21
REPLY: 1:106/9788.2 60f21e19
22 Jan 96 11:59, J.J. Hitt wrote to Steve Wallis:
JH>>> Of course, the more "interesting" areas are empty; but
JH>>> their very presence on a "Christian" BBS reflects directly
JH>>> on just what sort of character Mr. Miller actually is.
SW>> Are you an ordained judge J.J.?
JH> Ye shall know them by their works, bub.
Since when are judges "ordained", anyway?
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Steve Quarrella
|Sub: Christmas
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:13:01
EID:7076 203911a0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106e78f
22 Jan 96 11:53, Steve Quarrella wrote to Lynda Bustilloz:
LB>> should treat them with respect. You don't like it when someone
LB>> questions your own sincerity -- where do you get off deciding an
LB>> entire group of people are without sincerity??
SQ> Will you stop asking those hurtful questions already?
So, when do we make Lynda an honorary "empty" heathen? She's been doing
a lot of sucking up lately, and should be rewarded. Maybe one of the more
artistic heathens (Sue?) could draw up some kind of certificate? :)
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Steve Quarrella
|Sub: Christmas
|Date: 25 Jan 96 03:11:04
EID:7076 20391960
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106f4ef
22 Jan 96 21:05, Steve Quarrella wrote to Robert Jackson:
SQ>> And what hole is that, Jesse?
RJ>> Yeah, what hole is that?
SQ> "I'm just trying to find the bridge...can anybody find the bridge?"
T'hell with the bridge. Jesse can't even find the deep, dark, and "empty"
chasm that the bridge allegedly spans.
SQ> "That is a stupid question...I will not answer."
"What you call a refusal to answer was a refusal to respond"
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub: creation
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:03:55
EID:7a60 20391060
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106e577
REPLY: 1:381/123@fidonet.org 028df6c8
23 Jan 96 01:36, Katherine Wintersnight wrote to David Worrell:
DW> KW>> David, Maria's husband is the one who linked the lack of a
DW> KW>> 'Big Bang' to the origin of life. After all, anything
DW> KW>> resembling a 'Big Bang' is just a theory to her.
DW>>
KW> BTW, has FIDO gone weird again, or has Maria taken a powder?
Errr... If I had to guess, I'd say both. I haven't even seen any replies
to Maria lately, so I'd have to say she's taken a powder. However, given
Fido's propensity to "[go] weird", that possibility cannot be ruled out.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub: FOF
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:05:44
EID:86d5 203910a0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106e604
REPLY: 1:381/123@fidonet.org 11169aee
23 Jan 96 01:36, Katherine Wintersnight wrote to David Worrell:
DW>> Compuserve has two choices in this matter:
DW>> 1. Don't censor anything, and loose all those hefty German
DW>> subscription fees.
DW>> 2. Censor the sex groups from German readers (as the German
DW>> government requested), and let the German government worry about
DW>> the other places that Germans are getting their porn.
KW> And they have porn shops in their airports? Am I the
KW> only one that sees a contradiction here?
No.
KW> David, I just don't see the point of forbidding access to
KW> something that is sold that openly elsewhere in the country.
Governments are composed of people, right? Whoever said that people (especially
when the people in question form committees) were incapable of holding contradictory
positions? Whoever said that the actions of people had to make sense?
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Styx Allum
|Sub: FOF update
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:00:37
EID:a679 20397000
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 31078d20
REPLY: 1:152/20@fidonet.org 0996e833
19 Jan 96 23:24, Styx Allum wrote to LARRY SITES:
>> Also aol has sent me one of their free trial disks and TWO free
>> trials for GNN, their internet service.
SA> Isn't it nice of them to keep sending us free backup diskettes?
I've noticed that AOL has started sending its stuff on CD-ROM. Bastards.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub: I'M BACK
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:08:03
EID:cb38 20391100
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106e66b
REPLY: 1:381/123@fidonet.org d81e8754
23 Jan 96 01:36, Katherine Wintersnight wrote to David Worrell:
DW> KW>> Even skyclad, my tradition goes for the pretty stuff. My
DW> KW>> headdress is sterling silver, and set with moonstones. The
DW> KW>> silver explains the polish, and the settings for the stones
DW> KW>> explain the toothpicks (you wrap them in gauze to get at the
DW> KW>> tight places). Some of my other pieces of 'ritual jewellery'
DW> KW>> also have to be polished.
DW>> I'll eat whatever you, Judith, and lInda want to feed me if you'll
DW>> show up in that outfit.
KW> You are a sweet kid, David, but before you get your hormones all
KW> stirred up, remember that I'm a middle aged mommy person.
You just had to go and ruin my fantasy, didn't you? :)
KW> However I
KW> am a hellaciously good cook. ;)
That's one of the most important things, anyway. Anything else is just
icing on the cake. :)
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Steve Quarrella
|Sub: Jesse ignores unauthorized questions
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:22:58
EID:a009 203912c0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106e9f7
22 Jan 96 20:49, Steve Quarrella wrote to Fredric Rice:
jcj>> But I will not abandon the celebration of the Birth of
jcj>> Christ just because some cunning Middle-Aged monk decided
jcj>> to place it at a time already considered festive.
FR>>
SQ> You can just see the foot being stamped. I tell you, if we play our
SQ> cards right, we can milk entertainment out of this one until March or
SQ> April. :)
At which time we'll be exposed to his Easter screed. We may be able to
milk that one until June or July, but there's gonna be a dry spell until
Thanksgiving. Too bad Jesse's not Catholic - they've got religious holidays
every third Wednesday. :)
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Lynda Bustilloz
|Sub: Jesus said "EAT ME!"
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:37:32
EID:6485 203974a0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 310795d2
REPLY: 1:138/255.0 3105595a
22 Jan 96 08:38, Andrew Masten wrote to Lynda Bustilloz:
LB>> It won't work, J.J. Until they've been consecrated, all you have
LB>> is a large quantity of tasteless wafers, and overpriced ones at
LB>> that, no doubt. Stick with Townhouse crackers. :)
AM> Your just a sick man.
You're a *man*?!? :)
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Don Martin
|Sub: Persecution Central
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:30:18
EID:4299 203913c0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106eb5b
REPLY: 1:261/1000.0 31037d3f
21 Jan 96 12:10, Don Martin wrote to David Worrell:
DW>> I knew this would happen when I lost my tongs and thumbscrew. I
DW>> guess I'll have to go out and buy another set.
DM> So YOU'RE the one!. The poor guy comes here, expecting a good
DM> persecution, and YOU have lost your tongs and thumscrews! How many
DM> times do I have to tell you to PUT THINGS AWAY WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH
DM> THEM AND YOU'LL KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM? But you never listen. Now
DM> this poor Christian soul is wandering around in strange places,
DM> seeking the service he feels we promised him. No wonder our repeat
DM> business is lousy . . .
As a wise old sage once said:
"... piss on him--it's only a fundy, after all." - DM
Hmmm... I wonder who that DM was? :)
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Jesse Jones
|Sub: RICE IS A LIAR
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:22:45
EID:ddb8 203972c0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 31079248
REPLY: 1:124/9005.221 61033385
23 Jan 96 19:30, Martin Goldberg wrote to Jesse Jones:
MG> You must have missed my message to you.....twice.
MG> For wht reason do you believe that my giving my wife a gift at the end
MG> of December can be translated into my celebrating a religious holiday?
I just wanted to make sure you saw this, Jesse.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Steve Quarrella
|Sub: Staal shows all...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:28:24
EID:29e3 20391380
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106eafa
22 Jan 96 18:43, Steve Quarrella wrote to Jim Staal:
JS>> BTW, does your wife ever look over your shoulder sometimes,
JS>> like the lovely Wilbur does to me and says 'why do you waste
JS>> time with people like that'?
SQ> Why, "to combat the evil," of course!
Does Jimmy-boy imagine that we're concerned with the opinion of his alleged
wife (which state is it that allows humans to marry blow-up dolls, anyway)?
If she exists, she can't be too damn bright - she married him.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: J.J. Hitt
|Sub: talking critters
|Date: 25 Jan 96 02:39:29
EID:391c 203914e0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106edea
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22 Jan 96 22:51, J.J. Hitt wrote to Boni Hitch:
BH>> Well we Natives have been talking to the animals for a few
BH>> thousand years [...]
JH> Ahhh.... no wonder you never invented the wheel or writing.
Isn't it odd that the "earth-worshipping" societies never seem to get beyond
the stage of back-breaking labour, rampant disease, and early deaths?
Hmm... it seems that worshipping Gaia is even more worthless as worshipping
Jehovah.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Andrew Masten
|Sub: VIRGIN
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:38:15
EID:488c 203974c0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 310795f2
REPLY: 1:138/255.0 31055956
22 Jan 96 04:48, Andrew Masten wrote to Dan Ceppa:
DW>> Do you have any evidence for creationism? If so, please present
DW>> it. If not, kindly stop your whining.
AM>> Yes, request denied, no.
DC>> Sure you have evidence, fundy. That's why you refuse to share
DC>> it.
AM> No, David Worrel was just being a jerk.
And he's still waiting on that evidence you claim to have. Where is it?
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|From: David Worrell
|To: J.J. Hitt
|Sub: Waco jury foreman coments
|Date: 25 Jan 96 01:47:34
EID:0dd5 20390de0
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106e34c
REPLY: 1:106/9788.2 60f4ffd6
22 Jan 96 17:20, J.J. Hitt wrote to David Worrell:
DW>> (You don't even really need that - just a directional antenna
DW>> and a frequency dial.)
JH> Um... shouldn't there be some sort of electronics connected to that
JH> dial?
That's what God is for.
Seriously, I didn't realize I'd need to be so anal about it. You'd also
need an amplifier, a speaker, and a few other goodies.
JH> The directional antenna is totally unnecessary.
Yes, for eavesdropping on cell phones. However, there's no telling when
you'll *need* a directional antenna, so it's best to throw one in for the
hell of it, rather than having to build another device from scratch later.
JH> The move to a digital format for cell phones wont eliminate
JH> eavesdropping either.
Of course it won't. However, I've seen notices for a program called "PGPphone"
- you can't tell from the name, but it is the equivalent of PGP for voice
communications :). PGPphone requires that you talk through your sound card
(and a microphone) rather than your telephone handset, but it shouldn't
be long until a similar device is developed that can be attached directly
to the phone itself.
JH> It'll simply force the listeners to move from consumer
JH> electronics to industrial test equipment and service
JH> monitors.
That is one concept I've yet to get any "NWO cashless society" weenie to
understand. They all bitch and moan about debit cards and the government's
ability to track each and every person by their spending, but they fail
to take into account the fact that for each advance in security technology
there's three advances that can be used to break that security.
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Robert Berndt
|Sub: White-lighter Religio
|Date: 25 Jan 96 14:40:51
EID:1000 20397500
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 310796a1
REPLY: 1:280/26 351604b7
20 Jan 96 23:03, Robert Berndt wrote to Asmodeus:
RB> If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your
RB> tunic.
If I take your computer, will you let me have your printer, too?
Where do you live?
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|From: David Worrell
|To: Fredric Rice
|Sub: White-lighter Religions
|Date: 25 Jan 96 01:56:57
EID:de52 20390f00
MSGID: 1:3615/41.11 3106e439
REPLY: 1:102/890.666@FidoNet 0883b7ab
17 Jan 96 04:49, Fredric Rice wrote to David Worrell:
A>> and what you _truly_ stand for delusions of grandeur?
dw>> If the world you dream of, where everybody did exactly as they
dw>> pleased, ever came about, you'd be cowering in a fucking corner.
FR> If he was allowed to live this long.
I was in a generous mood.
FR> I suspect that in a society where "do as you wish" held sway
FR> without the admonishment "if it harms none," every word and
FR> every action would have to be backed up with a gun.
And no one would ever be able to sleep. Pretty fucked up world, huh? Yet
clueless fucks like Asmodeus never seem to be able to carry the consequences
of their ideals (or rather, the ideals they lifted from someone else) to
their logical conclusion. Each of them dreams of a world where they are
free of responsibility, yet they have no idea that there are people (more
than they're capable of imagining) that would as soon shoot 'em as spit
on 'em.
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|From: David Johnston
|To: Kenneth McAbee
|Sub: Redacted Stories
|Date: 25 Jan 96 00:45:00
EID:680a 203905a0
-> DJ> You are quite incorrect. It is you they are being rude to.
-> David,
-> Naw, the Bible says that they do not reject the person that is
-> presenting
-> the Gospel, but rather the one the Gospel is written about.
Rejection is beside the point. Everyone who says "no" to you is
"rejecting" what you believe to be the gospel. Those who do so rudely,
are being rude to you personally. Nor does that line of reasoning
particularly apply to the modern day, when everyone has ample access to
the information in question, to accept or reject as they see fit. This
no longer the Roman Empire, and Christianity is no longer an obscure
novelty.
--- PCBoard (R) v15.21/100
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Mark Hogan
|Sub: Hs web page update
|Date: 24 Jan 96 11:57:00
EID:6d83 20385f20
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e30
And Brave Sir Mark ran away, screaming "Hs web page update"!
SA> You, too? I've been seriously considering one of those collections,
SA> myself.
MH>
MH> Good grief, why? I submit, there's several good songs on some
MH> of the ones I've seen advertised, but a lot of them are simple
MH> nugatorical tripe. It seems to be commonplace among your average
MH> 'TV-sold' compilation, though. Doesn't that just make you wistful
MH> for a bearable '80s music compilation'?
Yes; but about now I'd even take a mediocre '80s collection. There's simply
nothing worthwhile on the radio.
SA> Thanks .. I should really see about getting the second month scanned
SA> now, too.
SA>
SA> Dark? Hm. They seemed all right in my viewers.
MH>
MH> I have to admit, I thought they looked a little dark and
MH> blurry and/or smudged. A flatbed scanner would have made a
MH> considerable difference, given that they're also typically
MH> appertain to a higher dpi value. It's a shame one wasn't
MH> available. [Not a gripe, but a lament.]
MH>
MH> Gosh; I'm just an all-around wishful thinker, aren't I?
Mm. Mind you, I wish I had something with a nice flatbed scanner, too.
It'd
come in handy at the very least. Of course, I also wish that the background
to
VDE wasn't this damn blue ..
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... Barney and Baby Bop at Jurassic Park = A happy Velociraptor.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Gwenny the Pooh
|Sub: DOOFUS...
|Date: 24 Jan 96 12:00:01
EID:394a 20386000
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e31
And Brave Sir Gwenny ran away, screaming "DOOFUS..."!
SA> stuff .. if you don't mind waiting a few months. There are
SA> apparently places in/around Detroit where such can be had, but
SA> that's sort of a pain, too. Who wants to go to Detroit? :P
GtP> Just to mean, I have to tell you that most of our RPG stuff came from
GtP> Goodwill...at $1.95 a book. I have three or four Unearthed
GtP> Arcana.
Arrgh. Well, it might be worth checking out those shops .. but I can't
see too
many people ditching such books around here, seeing as how they're so hard
to
get. But, one can always hope upon hope, I suppose. :)
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... ERROR 407: Program too idiotic.
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Lynda Bustilloz
|Sub: Angles exists
|Date: 24 Jan 96 12:02:02
EID:7633 20386040
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e32
And Brave Sir Lynda ran away, screaming "Angles exists"!
KDM> angles "do exists", regardless of whether we accept them or not, or
KDM> whet believe in God or not. The author tells of stories supposingly
KDM> based an steeped in truth about the intervention of angles in human
KDM> lives, and sometimes
SA> The only time "angles" intervened in my life was in math
SA> class, and their sole raison d'etre seemed to be to annoy the shit
SA> out of me and ensure I got a "D".
LB> Guess you didn't have a guardian angle, huh?
If I did, it was probably obtuse ..
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... [WINTER] virus: Ah kerse yer hard drave in tha name of tha Laaaaaard.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Dan Ceppa
|Sub: CHRISTOLOGY
|Date: 24 Jan 96 12:03:03
EID:dd04 20386060
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e33
And Brave Sir Dan ran away, screaming "CHRISTOLOGY"!
SA> as 8 or more young. The odd thing is, wolves in captivity don't
SA> always produce the maxiumum amount of young, even though they tend
SA> to be well-fed. They tend to produce the average of 4-6. And, of
DC> That sounds like that may be somewhat controlled by a view of
DC> what the available range is open to them. The smaller the territory,
DC> the smaller the litter....
Sounds reasonable to me; after all, captive animals don't
generally have 150 square miles to run around in. The smaller
range (and the generally closer proximity each animal has to each
other - in the wild, they can get away on their own for a few days
or weeks) might affect females hormonally.
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... Get the feeling of fur - slam your hand in a car door
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Steve Wallis
|Sub: Why
|Date: 24 Jan 96 12:35:04
EID:83c8 20386460
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e34
And Brave Sir Steve ran away, screaming "Why"!
MH> Christianity is a belief, nothing more. If you think it's
SW>
SW> In your opinion Mark, buthow would you know if it were anything more
SW> if you never bothered to take the time to find out?
How do you know he hasn't?
MH> anything more, you're not only sadly mistaken but deluded as well.
SW>
SW> Again, I would have to say that wisdom is justified by her children.
You obviously aren't one of them.
SW>
MH> so many words, and I am, of course, mincing words, but only to
MH> show you how silly you are. Case and point: There are no gods,
MH> only systems of belief.
SW>
SW> You will have your day in court to dispute it Mark,(if you keep going
SW> the way you are). It says in the Bible that we all must give an
SW> account to God one day for our actions on earth.
Ooh, threats. The last resort of the Real, True, Christian.
MH> should not base what they think of any given thing on one [usually
MH> worthless] person, which is why I don't hate Christianity because
MH> you believe in it.
SW>
SW> Praise God brother!
He ain't your brother. And I dare you to call him "Chief".
MH> However, there seems to be an overwhelming
MH> trend of Christian blue-bloods doing really dispicable things to
MH> others, and themselves. What does this say for your religion? It's
MH> definitely a petty one, by all accounts.
SW>
SW> If a non believer offends me in some way, I dont automatically label
SW> all non believers as the same and then do my part to shun em all.
Oh, no. You merely threaten them with your stories of hellfire and
brimstone, don't you?
SW> Therefore, if a Christian blue-blood(as you call em) offends you
SW> somehow, are you going to label all Christians the same and shun them?
SW> Do you see my point? Its ludicrous. As for "my religion"-what would
SW> that be? I dont practice religion, I do however believe in the Lord
SW> Jesus Christ and how a relationship with Him. Religion is man's way
of
SW> trying to reach God, Christ is the only way.
Got any non-bibical evidence of this? How can you be so sure that
Mohammed isn't the only way? (Bring up the bible, and I'll bring up
the Qu'ran.)
MH> It sounds like she's doing a whole lot better, no thanks to
MH> your religion's fellow believers.
SW>
SW> As I stated before-I dont practice religion. My God shuns evil. No
So, having a "personal relationship" with your chosen god-construct
doesn't count as a religion. How about someone who claims a "personal
relationship" with Mohammed? Or with Zeus? Or Odin, Cthulu,
Stargoat, Amagok, Manitou, the Yellow Emporer, Buddha, King Arthur, or
a host of other gods/demigods/heroes from around the world? They believe
in
THEIR diety constructs just as much as YOU do, and are likely to fall
back on the exact same sorts of arguments you will to plead the case
for their pet dieties, and all will back up their claims with some
sort of scripture, based on ancient legends and lore - just as your
own adopted scriptures are.
SW> evil can dwell with my God. What happened to Gweeny was unfortunate,
Unfortunately for you, your god claims to have made evil. He even
admits it in the OT. Besides the fact that if your god made
everything (a highly specious claim, indeed) then it also made evil -
"everything" means just that.
SW> but it wasnt God's fualt. If you walked down the street and got jumped,
SW> beat upon and robbed, would it be God's fualt? No. Would it be your
SW> fualt? No. It would have been a sign of the times guy,(redeeming the
SW> times becuase the days are evil).
Oh, but if he won a million dollars in the 6/49, he'd be expected to
praise your god for his good fortune, wouldn't he?
And "evil days" have ALWAYS been upon us, Chucklehead. There hasn't
been a generation in history that hasn't lamented society's decline
and looked back upon some far-distant age - when people ALSO lamented
how bad society was. Today's society is no worse - and most likely
even better - than the days when most people in Europe believed in the
same god you do .. and knights went around lopping people's heads off,
feudal lords worked their serfs to death, the heads of enemies
were hung on pikes within and around cities, kings ruled with
absolute power, and most people were completely illitreate. It's
better than it was even 500 yeras ago, when standards of hygeine were
still very low, more diseases than now were completely incurable,
people went off to find foreign lands and decimate the populations
(ask the Beothuk Indians and the Tasmanian aborigines about how good
God-fearing folk can be .. oh, wait, you can't. They were all made
extinct, quite forcibly) and monarchs STILL ruled with absolute power.
100 years ago, you had the generally lawless West, and Eastern folks
laying waste to the natural world in an era before hunting laws were
forced to come about. In the 1930s, you had the Depression, which
forced the concept of welfare to come into being, in response to the
masses of starving folks on the street, to keep them from stealing
what they needed. In the late 30s and 1940s, you had the rise of Nazi
fascism - and through the 30s, fascism was favoured by the US
government because it was diametrically opposed to Communism - which,
at the time, was seen as the bigger threat until the US entered World
War II. In the 1950s, you had pregnant girls being sent away from
home, in shame, to bear their children - and no birth control was
still yet available, legally, and people could be blackballed on mere
suspicion of ever having even read the cover of "Das Kapital". All
throughout history, you had your equivalents to beatniks, hippies, and
free-thinkers, people out to upset the status quo of the time. Even
Socrates was sentenced for what HE had to say, in an age of Greece
some like to idealise - he was accused of "corrupting the young".
Time marches on, but the tune never changes.
So, I'd like to know what age of history (DOCUMENTED history, please -
don't bring up your garden of Eden mythos - every culture has an
idealised distant past, for the reasons outlined above) you would
nominate for being "better" than the way things are now.
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... "Here, fundy, fundy, fundy. Nice fundy...***<<>>***"
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Judith Bandsma
|Sub: ABORTION
|Date: 24 Jan 96 14:44:05
EID:a2b0 20387580
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e35
And Brave Sir Judith ran away, screaming "ABORTION"!
PS> crimes of one. This is a Stalinist tactic. Are you one of those who
PS> speaks against the use of anaesthesia during childbirth on the grounds
PS> that it circumvents this punishment?
JB> She got asked that the last time she was here. If I remember right,
JB> she went off into a long ramble that nobody would deny the use of pain
JB> killers to women in labor today and never answered the charge that
JB> there are christians who still think that women shouldn't even have
JB> medical care during pregnancy and labor because of the genesis bit.
Hell, I think those "natural childbirth" weenies are closet fundies;
they might not use biblical language for their aims, but they're very
good at using guilt and fear to convince you to forgo an epidural
block, or even gas, during labour. "It's bad for the baby", they
chant to nervous new moms-to-be .. who, if they buy the line, wind up
having a much worse time at it than it might have been.
The pamphlets put out by the Lamaze people really pour on the fear and
guilt tactics, too, aided and abetted by health care workers who run
prenatal classes. I was also turned off quickly by the La Leche
League's pamphlets, which use basically the same language and tactics
to get women to breast-feed, thus tying them down more to their
infants and toddlers than they need be (and, of course, it's more
difficult for the father to get in on the act, unless mom uses one of
those modified bovine milking machines on herself; but the pamphlets I
remember seeing frowned upon ANY use of a bottle whatsoever, no matter
what sort of milk was stored inside.) Worse, the True Believers in
such things were so wide-eyed and all, they reminded me of street-
corner fundies and Scientologists trying to get folks to take a
personality test. It's fucking scary.
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... Quick, call a Witch Doctor. My witch is sick!
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: AL SCHROEDER
|Sub: NOAH'S IMPOSSIBLE ARK 1
|Date: 25 Jan 96 12:37:06
EID:6ad8 203964a0
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e36
And Brave Sir AL ran away, screaming "NOAH'S IMPOSSIBLE ARK 1"!
LB> What does God have for breakfast?? ;)
AS> Whatever He wants.
LB> Wheaties -- Breakfast of Deities!
AS> Silly Rabbit--Tricks are for Gods!--Loki, Hermes, Coyote, Raven....
That's tagline material if I ever saw it .
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... The gun that shoots a wolf or coyote will never again shoot straight.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Preston Simpson
|Sub: OPINION POLL
|Date: 25 Jan 96 12:40:07
EID:59ac 20396500
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e37
And Brave Sir Preston ran away, screaming "OPINION POLL"!
PS> We used to have a regular scorecard here. Dunno what happened to it.
AS> Sue Armstrong did up the last version; ask her.
PS> I will, soon's I remember.
If you like, I'll post it in a few days, after I update it a bit more.
Mike Christy had the better list, though, with ages and whatnot, but I
haven't seen him around much lately.
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... Do you believe in life after birth?
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: AL SCHROEDER
|Sub: A DAY IN THE LIFE...
|Date: 25 Jan 96 13:38:08
EID:f696 20396cc0
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e38
And Brave Sir AL ran away, screaming "A DAY IN THE LIFE..."!
KW> Don't be to sure about that...
AS>
AS> Ever READ "The Circus of Dr. Lao"? It was made into a movie, but the
It's a book, too? Nifty. I liked the movie, "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao"
(with Tony Randall as Lao, of all things).
AS> movie, although pretty good, could not catch the full flavor of the
AS> original. At one point this rather prudish schoolteacher went into
AS> one part of the freak show and came face to face with...Pan. Piping
AS> her inhibitions away....
I remember that, from the flick. Cripes, how long ago did that movie come
out?
30 years ago?
AS> And then there was the fortuneteller who told absolutely true
AS> fortunes, and told this woman,"You will meet no one exciting. You will
AS> keep on hoping you will until you die, and you will die unmourned, and
AS> no one will ever miss you." "But what's the use of me living, then?"
AS> "I don't know. I just read fortunes, I don't determine them."
AS> Paraphrasing here. Wonderfully funny and witty, pagan in the playful
AS> Arcadian sense, highly recommended.
Drat; now you've got me wanting to see the movie again; a Toronto station
runs
it once in a blue moon, but I haven't seen them list it for a couple of
years.
I'll keep my eyeballs open for the book, though.
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... "What's for dinner Baldrick ?" "Rat au Van." - Blackadder
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Maria Russell
|Sub: ABORTION ENSLAVES WOMEN
|Date: 25 Jan 96 15:33:09
EID:7df4 20397c20
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e39
And Brave Sir Maria ran away, screaming "ABORTION ENSLAVES WOMEN"!
RB> OUR primary instinct is one of survival. We've simply dominated the
RB> rest of the animal world to such an extent that we have a lot of
RB> leisure time. Time to sell insurance and dream up myths about gods.
MR> We also have a need to love and be loved; the knowledge of something
So do most animals; pets are an obvious example, but even reptiles and fish
will react positively to kindly care .. and, as far as the ones with obvious
behaviour go, they tend to react tenderly to mates, as well, even if they
don't normally stay together all year. As for the ones whose behaviour
is
more cryptic to human observers, we simply don't KNOW what they're feeling,
and can't infer such by watching. For instance, I've seen film clips of
lions
mating; it looks like an unpleasant affair, from my human point of
view, what with the neck-biting and all, but then, some humans like
"rough sex" as well. At first glance, it doesn't look like either is
enjoying themselves, but on second thought their reactions are
probably just similar to groaning and love-biting in humans, who are
more obviously (to another human) enjoying themselves and may actually
even give a damn about one another.
MR> "higher" than us; to think and plan things out; to create things with
No, we simply don't KNOW if they think of anything "higher" than themselves,
because we can't converse with them on our own terms - and we haven't yet
learned how to "get into their heads" on theirs. Dogs, however, react somewhat
worshipfully to their masters - and will even die for them. Wolves tend
to
adore the alphas in their packs. We simply don't know if they conveive
of some
sort of unseen super-alpha or not. Even if they don't, so what? What's
so
great about unevidenced belief in unseen superheroes?
MR> our hands.....all things that animals cannot do.
So, we make things with our hands. Big whoop. That's instinct, too. It
doesn't seem to be any less instinctual than corals making great reefs and
islands with their very bodies, or wasps making elaborate paper mache nests,
or
beavers making fortified dams and lodges, or satin bowerbirds making
elaborately and beautifully decorated nests to impress their ladies, or
whatnot. Captive elephants and chimps seem to thoroughly enjoy tracing
in the
dirt, or even painting when given the materials to do so, just as human
children do. Hell, their paintings have even been presented anonymously
to art
critics, who estimate the value (thinking that the artists are human) of
such
paintings in terms of tens of thousands of dollars or more (art critics
are
very big on abstract art.) There probably isn't a human alive that doesn't
find it fulfilling to tinker, or draw, or build, even if they're not
particularly good at it - and when such a propensity shows up in other species,
it's immediately labelled as "instinct". Yet, such propensity is no more
indistinguishable in humans than it is in other critters - it's instinctual
in
humans to create. So, some of us are better at it than others; birds can
make
shoddy nests, too. Shoddy nestmaking, however, has a bearing on the genetic
makeup of bird species, since birds who can't build nests worth a damn simply
won't be successful at breeding, so the talent for the art of nestbuilding
is
reinforced in the species. If artistic talent was similarly important in
human
societies, it, too, would eventually be that all humans were decent artisans.
Mental illness is also long known to occur in other animals, without
help from any virus or tumour or other physical CNS disorder. Zoos
have, in this century, been forced to upgrade their facilities and
make animal enclosures more naturalistic and stimulating for the
inmates - not due to the actions of animal rights/animal welfare
activists, but simply due to the fact that they were losing a great
many animals due to mental illness. Animals in old-style zoo cages
routinely showed signs of insanity brought on by sheer boredom -
including, but not limited to: incessant bar-biting; foot-chewing;
licking of one area until raw;agression towards cage-mates,
including those of the opposite sex; stereotyped pacing continued
all day until the animal simply collapses from exhaustion; head-shaking;
and beating of the head against the floor or wall continuously.
Dogs, cats, and birds can be driven similarly insane due to abuse or neglect.
I've seen an insane galah who can do nothing more than screech all day.
Pit bulls rescued from drug dealers or dog fighters are regularly put
down - not because of a "vicious nature", but because they've been
deliberately driven insane enough to attack anything that moves - not
a normal behaviour for ANY animal.
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... "Man is quite insane." -- Montaigne
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: Karen Davis
|Sub: CHURCHES
|Date: 25 Jan 96 15:24:10
EID:0602 20397b00
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e3a
And Brave Sir Karen ran away, screaming "CHURCHES"!
DC> I see that you will never make Poster Girl of NOW or any Ant-Child
> Abuse organization.
KD> On the contrary, it is people like Maria that NOW wants to save.
Frankly, if folks like Maria want to be doormats, that's up to them. I
don't understand how she can be happy that way, but hey. I also
couldn't understand the housewives I've met that were happy knowing
absolutely nothing beyond the best sort of vaccuum cleaner to buy.
NOW's business should be in protecting the rights of those of us who
DON'T want to be that way, and don't want the traditional view of
women forced on us.
The only way someone like Maria would/could ever change would probably
be through some sort of seriously bad experience at the hands of her
husband or some other male .. I doubt she'd ever realise that being
subjugated isn't all that pleasant on her own accord. Perhaps her
personality even dictates that she not be in control of her own life.
My only problem with the likes of her is, they only reinforce the
views of those like Christian Miller, Shabier Khan and men like them
who wish we were ALL Maria Russells - quiet, obedient, and dumb as
posts without the intestinal fortitude to take care of ourselves or
express an opinion of our own.
--Wolfie
To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul - just be sure something
you want to view is there.
... Abusers don't care *what* your species is.
--- GEcho 1.00
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|From: Sue Armstrong
|To: AL SCHROEDER
|Sub: HEAVENLY AND DAZED
|Date: 25 Jan 96 16:19:11
EID:1390 20398260
PID: BWQBBS 2.90e Beta [Reg]
MSGID: 1:246/15.0 31080e3b
And Brave Sir AL ran away, screaming "HEAVENLY AND DAZED"!
AS> Lament all over again. These are Kryptonian or Amazon muscles. The penis
AS> involved would be crushed by muscles stronger than steel...
KW>