God Damned Fundies!

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11 Years of HolySmoke


|From: Martin Goldberg
|To:   Sue Armstrong
|Sub:  You *didn't* answer this
|Date: 27 Mar 97  19:22:52
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SA> That hasn't come to trial YET?  Well, it's good to know I haven't
SA> missed it; I'll certainly be more interested in following that 
SA> than the OJ spectacle.  Of course, I bet they won't have as 
SA> much teevee coverage this time 'round.

If all holds, the end of March will be the big day.  I don't look for the
glitz that OJ attracted.  The country is damned angry about this.  It is
my belief that he3 will never be executed but will die in a federal pen.

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|From: Martin Goldberg
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 27 Mar 97  19:28:43
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MG>> Saved to disk, Whines.  Another example of xtian charity.  
MG>> ROTFL!

KY> I would agree with him that abortion is worthy of the death 
KY> penalty, except since the girl wasn't the one that actually 
KY> killed the unborn child, it probably should be the so called 
KY> doctors that should be executed.

Your logic is as leaky as an inner tube in a dart factory.

The child is born and dies int eh hands of a 12 year old that does nto know
the first thing about raising a child.  Maybe then, we should execute the
physicians that allowed her to come to term.

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|From: Quentin Fai
|To:   Rod Swift
|Sub:  Re: Blavatsky?
|Date: 26 Mar 97  19:28:26
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QF>> Did you archive your first one? I still have the original message saved.
QF>> I need to get out more often.

RS> Why archive, when you can print and wallpaper your house!

I should print it out and staple it to my wall, at least. :)

I recently saw something kinda cool at school yesterday. Someone had taken
some church-issue pictures of Jesus (not sure which church, though) and
put
the caption, "MILK: Where's Your Mustache" with a dab of white paint on
Jesus' mustache. There were a few of these posted around the university,
so I
just had to take one home and put it on the wall. :)

... Necromancers put the FUN back in funerals!
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|From: Darryl Gonzalez
|To:   Mark O'Neill
|Sub:  Re: dumb religious delusions
|Date: 26 Mar 97  23:50:00
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In a message to Darryl Gonzalez <03-24-97 17:08> Mark O'Neill wrote:

MO>  MSGID: 3:640/375.1 3336fcbf
MO>  REPLY: 1:383/6293 3328B87E
MO>  CHRS: LATIN-1 2
MO>  While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as
MO>  lightning 
MO>  conductors on church steeples, Darryl Gonzalez said this to me about
MO>  dumb
MO>  religious delusions
MO>  
MO>   MO>>   KY> Evidence won't necessarily make you believe.
MO>   MO>>       ^^^^^^^^
MO>   MO>>  It'd be a fuckin' start, wouldn't it, Dickbrain?
MO>  
MO>   DG> With most of those I've encountered on this echo, it'd be a
MO>  useless
MO>  
MO>  Encountered what?  Useless what?  You're not being very specific,
MO>  Darryl,
MO>  Darryl and Darryl.
MO>  
MO>   DG> be like handing someone a closed book and saying, "Read this",
MO>  and
MO>   DG> they'd reply, "I can't: it's closed."  So then you open it and
MO>  say,
MO>   DG> "Read this." Then they reply, "I can't: I can't read."  You will
MO>  make
MO>  
MO>  What the fuck are you on about here?  Oh, I see.  You're telling me
MO>  that
MO>  I've never read the bible, aren't you?  You would be in error if you
MO>  suggested this.  I do have a copy of it.  I also have The Satanic
MO>  Bible,

You totally missed the point, Mark.  My point there was that most of the
people on this echo will refuse to listen to any evidence or argument no
matter what I do.  That point had nothing to do with reading the Bible at
all.

MO>  as well as various other books, not to mention another 100 or so on
MO>  file
MO>  which are a mixture of pro/anti christian beliefs.  You see, Darryl,
MO>  Darryl and Darryl, I'm actively searching for answers to many
MO>  impossible
MO>  questions.  I expect I'll never find satisfactory answers or
MO>  *evidence*
MO>  for any of my questions but, unlike you, I'm not afraid to look. 
MO>  That's
MO>  the difference.  You're afraid to look outside your faith.

No, Mark.  I've probably done a great deal more searching than you have
ever
done.  I've looked at all the major religious and non-religious viewpoints
in
the world.  But when it came down to making a decision, I chose to follow
Jesus Christ, and that's a choice I've never regretted.

MO>
MO>  De-bunked.

Yes, you are.

MO>  
MO>   DG> every excuse you can to not examine any evidence that's put
MO>  before you.
MO>  
MO>  *EVIDENCE*, Darryl, Darryl and Darryl.  You have yet to provide
MO>  *evidence*.  You, like every other fucking religious fruitcake in
MO>  here,
MO>  have failed to provide *evidence*!  All you can do is quote
MO>  scriptures.
MO>  As there is no *evidence* these teachings are fact, your arguements
MO>  have no basis.

OK.  A couple of items for you:

1.  A brilliant mathematician, Dr. Robert Herrman, Professor of Mathematics
at
the U.  S.  Naval Academy, has published an excellent mathematical
demonstration using set theory which shows that it IS in fact reasonable
to
believe in God.  (The entire text of the article is available on the World
Wide Web at http://www.redbay.com:80/org/creation/sehi.txt.) His basic
argument is this:  There are certain types of characteristics which seem
to
characterize intelligence.  These include the ability to communicate, the
ability to make decisions, and the ability to argue.  He states that through
the use of functions called consequence operators, these abilities (and
others) can be shown to be part of larger sets of abilities (or "ultra-mental
processes", as he calls them).  He states, "When the collection UM of
ultra-mental processes is compared, as a whole, with the corresponding set
M
of mental processes that are displayed by humanity, then it appears reasonable
to characterize the collection UM as representing a higher intelligence.
The
logical existence of UM is obtained by use of the most fundamental tool
of
modern science and establishes that the acceptance of the existence of a
supernatural higher intelligence is scientifically rational and valid."
If
you don't have access to the World Wide Web, send me your address & I'll
send
you the article.

2.  There are many scientific experts in the world who do in fact believe
that
God exists.  I quoted some of them earlier.  But let's look at why a scientist
might believe this:  In order for human life to develop as it has here on
Earth, a number of conditions had to be met.  The Earth, for example, had
to maintain a distance of 92 million and 94 million miles between it and
the
Sun.  Too much closer, and we'd have fried.  Too much farther away, we'd
have
frozen.  The atmosphere had to have around 21 percent oxygen.  The Earth
had
to rotate at a high enough speed to maintain its gravity.  I could go on
and
on and on.  You might say, "Coincidence!"  Really?  You mean if I, for
example, were shooting craps and rolled double sixes once, it might be a
coincidence?  Yes, IF it happened once and only once.  If it happened over
and
over and over, then you'd begin to think something was strange here, wouldn't
you?

3.  Dr. J. C. Grenda, former Professor of Geology at Angelo State University
in San Angelo, Texas, and NOT a Christian, once validated my faith in a
historical geology class that I took from him by showing that an undersea
earthquake which is known to have happened in the Mediterranean Sea around
3000 B.C. could have caused the Red Sea to roll back in the manner in which
the Book of Exodus describes it.  He also admitted when I asked him that
many
of the miracles described in the Old Testament do have geological evidences
supporting them.  And, remember, he is NOT a Christian.

4.  There are a good many World Wide Web sites that offer evidences for
God.
The best I've found yet is at http://www.doesgodexist.org.

5.  Archaeology backs the Bible.  There has not, to my knowledge, been even
one archaeological discovery which contradicts it.  Ruins of Sodom and
Gomorrah, for example, have been found.  Ruins of Babylon have been found.
Still want to say there's no evidence, Mark?


MO>  
MO>   DG> That's why I haven't bothered to put any of the evidence (except
MO>  the
MO>   DG> scientific quotes) that I have
MO>  
MO>  That's logical.  Science is logical.  Facts are found through a
MO>  logical
MO>  process.  Faith has no scientific process, ergo, faith is not
MO>  logical.

No, but the object of that faith is testable.  If I, for example, wanted
to
put my money into a certain bank, I'd first want to know as much as I could
about it's financial situation, since I'm trusting it with my money.  I
therefore would talk to the banker, and I'd look at how long it's been in
business, what it's securities are, if it's a member of FDIC, etc.  Only
afte
r studying this would I decide to become (or not to become) a part of that
bank.  

MO>  
MO>   DG> on this echo.  I don't believe you'll listen to any of it.
MO>  
MO>  Correct.  Endless spiels on your god contain nothing most of us don't
MO>  already know.  Remember that.  The reason most of us question your
MO>  religion is because it is irrational.  It is flawed beyond what an
MO>  intelligent person can accept as truth.  It is not rational to accept
MO>  your
MO>  bible as truth when glaring faults exist within it's passages.  A
MO>  moron
MO>  might be able to ignore these grievous mistakes but I, for one,
MO>  cannot.

I've already disproven much of this point earlier in this message, so I
won't
repeat myself.  Suffice it to say this, however: I've spent 18 years of
my
life studying the Bible.  I've read it in at least four different
translations.  I cannot find any one of these "mistakes" you speak so much
ab
out.  I think, perhaps, you were LOOKING for mistakes, and then went out
and
"found" them.  I urge you to do it again, this time with an open heart and
mind.

- Pedit Ver 2.5
... If the bar waitress snickers at your drink order, saying. "I'll see
if we still make that drink."
You might be over 50

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|From: Katherine Wintersnight
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  CHRISTANIC TERRORISTS
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:55:00
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GH> JB> No, you forgot penalties and reasoning for the woman who requests
the
GH> JB> abortion. You also forgot that women do not have to seek out a doctor
GH> JB> to abort. You didn't lay out procedures for determining if a woman
has
GH> JB> had a spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or induced. Or were you
GH> JB> planning on just counting every miscarriage as an abortion.

GH> JB> You also forgot to add that you are an idiot. When YOU can get
GH> JB> pregnant, then you can decide. Until then, you have no say.


GH>   I covered all the bases; you apparently need to learn to read.   A
woman
GH>   who requests, and allows, an abortion is participating in its performance,
GH>   however passively...indeed, she plays a central part.  As such, she
is sub-
GH>   ject to the same penalties as any other member of the ensemble.

GH>   If the woman takes an abortion-inducing substance, she becomes the
abortion
GH>   ist, and is subject to the same penalties as any other provider would
be.

I am going to assume that you are working from a base of ignorance, and
not plain wilful maliciousness.  Medical treatment for many medical
conditions are either abortifacients or will severely damage the
fetus.  What you are saying, in effect, is that a woman who finds
herself pg should discontinue taking a life saving medication rather
than risk losing the pg and being jailed.

GH>   I am certain that any woman spontaneously aborting or miscarrying
will
GH>   seek medical assistance to prevent complications, etc., and that would
GH>   provide all the necessary evidence, so there need be no addiiitional
GH>   determinations made.

How do you tell a D&E (the proper name for the 'vacuum' procedure) for
the purposes of cleaning out a miscarriage from one to interrupt a pg?
Oh, you do know what the stakes are for not getting a D&E after a
miscarriage are, don't you?  Would you like to see your daughter die
screaming?  Retained material from an incomplete abortion (the word
abortion is used medically to indicate any pg that does not go to
term, not just those that are deliberately interrupted) not only can go
septic in a particularly nasty manner, but the retained tissue can cause
a spectacularly fast moving cancer.

GH>   As for my not having a right to make a decision for you, I never claimed
GH>   that right.   What I am advocating is a complete cessation of the
practice
GH>   of substituting abortion for proper decision making.   You do have
the 
GH>   right to choose who does what to your body.   If you take proper precaution
GH>   you won't get pregnant.   Therefor, especially in this age of advocacy
GH>   for safe sex, an unwanted pregnancy is an indication of incompetence
on the
GH>   part of the woman...even in most cases where the pregnancy is caused
by
GH>   rape.  

No, you are claiming the right to remove all my rights to deciding what
happens to my own body.  You are a slaver.  Where did you get the
idea that birth control methods currently available were failsafe?  Or
even all safe?

Women are not the only ones who should be held accountable.  Sorry,
Stupid, but if something slips, and the man just won't stop, it's not
the woman's fault.

GH>   I have raised 5 daughters...none of whom have ever had an unwanted
GH>   pregnancy, because they had the common sense to take precautions.
GH>   The daughter of a friend was raped, in her own bed.   Because the
woman
GH>   was on "The Pill", she didn't get pregnant.   What's YOUR excuse?
Too
GH>   much in a hurry to take your pill every morning, as prescribed???

GH>   If you wanna play, you gotta figure on paying...

So the girl was 'playing' when she got raped.  You are one sick man, and
I feel for your daughters.  No doubt the values and attitudes that
you've conditioned into them have made them into good little slaves, but
those attitudes are setting them up for a world of hurt through the
years.  No doubt you won't care, as long as they don't disturb your
belching and scratching.

I'm glad your daughters friend could take the pill--not all women can.
Do you even know how the pill works, and the risks that it brings with
it?  Were you even aware that some xtian fanatics want to outlaw the
pill as an abortion drug (something that you want to send your
daughter's friend to jail for using)?

GH>   Whatever situation that brings about the pregnancy, it ISN'T the fault
GH>   of the victim of an abortion, so why sentence him, or her, to death
for
GH>   YOUR mistakes???

Because he, she, or it is only welcome to my body with my permission.

GH>   THAT's why I would like to see abortions outlawed...they victimize
the
GH>   wrong parties...refute THAT if you can!!!

Instead of victimizing the women, something that you seem to be just
dandy about.

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|From: Katherine Wintersnight
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:55:00
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GH> GH> The remains of the Ark have been found.   YOU figure out how long
it
GH> GH> took one man to build it from scratch.
GH> JB> 
GH> JB> Not AGAIN? How many times is this thing going to be found?

GH> JB> Hint for you...it hasn't.

GH>   Perhaps YOU need to read up on recent (last 30 years) history?

    The ark was built out of rail road ties!!!  And
they're going to build a four lane high way up to it, with a look out
yet!!!  LOL!!!  LOL!!!  LOL!!!
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|From: Katherine Wintersnight
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  RE: ARROGANCE
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:55:00
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GH>   If you had bothered to include the next line of my post (which completes
GH>   my statement that I was/am ready to face the possibility that I may
GH>   have made the wrong choice) you would show yourself to be as stupid
as 
GH>   I claim all you apologists to be....I DID ANSWER THE QUESTION.   Now,
GH>   I repeat my challenge...what will you do when you find out I made
the 
GH>   correct choice?   After all, there is as strong a probability that
MY
GH>   God is THE GOD as there is to the contrary...that's the beauty of
Pascal's
GH>   Wager...everyone will learn the Name of the True God eventually, and
GH>   those who have chosen to follow that God will be sitting there thumbing
GH>   their noses as the losers get on the "DOWN" elevator...

Well, they sure sound like 'nice' people.  Ugh.  I think that I would
rather not having any thing to do with that sort of white trash, thank
you very much.
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|From: Katherine Wintersnight
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:55:00
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GH> KD> On (17 Mar 97) Ken Wiens wrote to Roger Hunter...
GH> KW>    You hold on. I maintained and still maintain that the
GH> KW>    ONLY situation in which an abortion is justified is
GH> KW>    to save the life of the mother. Outside that those
GH> KW>    who do so should have a fair trial and if found guilty
GH> KW>    executed.

GH> KD> And a 12 year old victim of incestuous rape does not fall under
your
GH> KD> category of "life."


GH>   What are *YOU* babbling about???  (See!  we Christians can "just jump
in
GH>   also).   How does the fact that she is 12, and has been raped by a

GH>   father, brother, uncle, indicate that bearing the child will endanger
GH>   her life.   The way the human body works allows that puberty is 
GH>   delayed until the body is capable of withstanding the rigors of pregnancy.

You incredible idiot.  Your ignorance is astounding.  IF (and I do mean
if) our hypothetical 12 year old should survive this pregnancy, she will
most likely come out of it with a damaged spine, warped pelvis, and torn
bladder.  She will most likely be subject to spontaneous abortions
(translation for the stupid-miscarriage) if she should ever be able to
get pregnant again.  Get your stupid ass down to the library and do some
reading.  A female is able to get pregnant almost from the beginning of
puberty--long before her body is able to physically sustain that
pregnancy with out being severely damaged.  That is if you are able to
stop your gleeful jacking off over pictures of 12 year olds being raped
by their daddy's long enough.

GH>   The idea, as often stated by Ken Wiens, is to forestall the use of
GH>   abortion/murder as a means of birth control.   I have had to counsel

GH>   girls of 10 and eleven who had entered puberty unbeknownst to them,
GH>   because the mother was too pre-occupied to tell her the facts of life.
GH>   These girls go out and play at sex games with older boys who are so
GH>   eager to "score" a virgin that they will lead these girls on, and
then
GH>   you end up with pre-teen girls getting pregnant.   But the horror
GH>   doesn't stop here.   The 11yr old is scared to death...what happens
GH>   if mom and pop find out???, etc.,,,so she allows herself to be talked
GH>   into an abortion.   This child wasn't able to cope with a just say
no 
GH>   circumstance, how do you expect her to glean enough info to make
GH>   a difficult decision, wisely.

Oh, how that must make your 'naughty parts' tingle.  How many of those
girls have you taken advantage of yourself?

GH>   My advocacy here will differ from most Pro-lifers...I would like to
see 
GH>   a law enacted that would make it a felony to counsel anyone under
the
GH>    age of 21 to have an abortion without the full knowledge of the parents
GH>    of the pregnant woman...

Even when Daddy is the father?
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|From: Katherine Wintersnight
|To:   Robert Curry
|Sub:  God's terrorists!
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:55:00
EID:47c8 227b76e0
MSGID: 1:381/123@fidonet.org 476a9610
RC> KW>> Dear, dear Robert.  Another slice of pie?

RC> RC> Yes, thank you. I save them for visiting missionaries, so they
RC> RC> don't go to waste. :-)

RC> KW> I can only see two problems with that--the first being that you
RC> KW> would then have to waste coffee on them,

RC>I don't keep any in stock. I always offer the Mormons a nicely chilled
RC>drink of some other caffeinated beverage of their choice, though.

I've had a lot of fun with a LDS 'friend' of mine by sweetly pointed out
that chocolate also contains caffein .  That always sends her into a
tailspin ending with chanted recitations of 'is not, is not, is not, is
not . . ."  She also gets a bit bent when I point out that the vanilla
extract that she's substituting for the forbidden rum in a recipe
contains just as much alcohol.

RC> KW> and the second being that some of those pies have proved to
RC> KW> be very fast acting.    If you are going to do that, may
RC> KW> I suggest plastic covers on your couch?

RC>They don't enter; I go outside. The better to chase them as they flee.

And a pooper scooper takes care of any droppings they leave, whether
feces or bibles.

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Alternative or Straw.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:35:38
EID:2d7f 227b5460
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed51cf
Hi Dan,
(Re: yours of 19-Mar-1997, "Alternative or Straw.")

DC>  -> On 18 Mar 97, Laurie Appleton got back to David Rice

LA> the conclusion that Dr. Michael Behe comes to that;

DC> Gee, Laurie, run out of Velekovsky quotes?

Not at all, but I am pleased to know how much you count in
your regular "instalments". So cheer up, here is the next
one!
-----------------

At Arcy, France, also in a cave, bones of the
hippopotamus were found with bones of the reindeer, and with
them a worked flint.(6)

According to the prophecy of Isaiah (11:6), in messianic
times to come the lion and the calf would pasture together.
But even prophetic vision has not conceived of a reindeer
from snow-covered Lapland and a hippopotamus from the
tropicaì Congï Riveò livinç togetheò oî thå Britisè Isleó or
in France. Yet they did leave their bones in the same mud of
the same caves, together with bones of other animals, in the
strangest assortments.

These animal bones were found in gravel and clay to which
Buckland gave the name of diluvium.

Buckland was concerned "to establish two important facts,
first, that there has been a recent and general inundation
of the globe; and, second, that the animals whose remains are
found interred in the wreck of that inundation were natives
of high north latitudes."

The presence of tropical animals in northerî Europå
"cannoô bå solveä bù supposinç theí tï migrate
periodically... for in the case of crocodiles and tortoises
extensive emigration is almost impossible, and not less so
to such an unwieldy animal as the hippopotamus when out of
the water." But how could they live in the cold of northern
Europe? Buckland says: "It is equally difficult to imagine
that they could have passed their winters in lakes or rivers
frozen up with ice."

If cold-blooded land animals are unable to hide
themselves in the ground over the winter, in icy climates
their blood would freeze solid: they lack the ability to
regulate the temperature of their bodies. Like Cuvier¬
Bucklanä waó "nearlù certaiî thaô iæ anù changå of climate
has taken place, it took place suddenly."(7)

Of the time the catastrophe occurred which covered with
mud and pebbles the bones in the Kirkdale cave, Buckland
wrote: "From the limited quantity of postdiluvian
stalactite, as well as from the undecayed condition of the
bones," one must deduce that "the time elapsed since the
introduction of the diluvial mud has not been of excessive
length."

The bones were not . . . .
-------------------------------------
5 Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossements fossiles des
quadrupedes, IV, 94.
6 E. Lartet, Reliquiae aquitanicae, pp. 147-48.
7 Buckland, Reliquiae diluvianae, p. 47.
-------------------------------------
(Earth in Upheaval, Immanuel Velkiovsky, 1956, p. 17)


Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Alternative or Straw.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:36:32
EID:9e65 227b5480
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed5240
Hi Christopher,
(Re: yours of 19-Mar-1997, "Alternative or Straw".)

LA>  Then WHO formed the first cell? Surely you do not accept
LA> the conclusion that Dr. Michael Behe comes to that;

CH>   No one formed it. Cells didn't spontaneously crop up out
CH> of nowhere. Scientists have demonstrated that if you expose
CH> an organic "soup" of methane, carbon, oxygen and water to
CH> electricity, you will get spontaneous formations of
CH> _amino_acid_ block.

You show all the signs of being a victim of indoctrination
and of outrageous HALF-TRUTHS! There WERE many things formed
in those "scientific" experiments including traces of some
Amino Acids. However NONE of the amino acids were the right
sorts required for life.

What you have NOT been told, apparently, it that all such
experiments produce a mixture of left-handed and
right-handed Amino acids, as do ALL natural chemical
reactions, but all life as we know it has only the
LEFT-HANDED version of these amino acids and cannot possibly
work with even a TRACE of the right-handed form.

Science knows of NO way that any natural chemical reaction
could produce 100% purified forms of these chemicals and
thus scientists have only "demonstrated" that the origin of
life cannot POSSIBLY have occured by NATURAL processes!

CH>      Amino acids are, if you don't remember, the building
CH> blocks of proteins.

In terms of the above that is a glorious half-truth which
is effectively a blatant mis-truth! What we now know about
proteins is not only that they MUST be of 100% left handed
amino acids, but they use ONLY a special and distinct number
of these amino acids - TWENTY in all and NO other.

Further more you were ENTITLED to have been told - but
apparently were NOT told - that these twenty amino acids need
to be assembled in a specific order to make useful proteins.
This too is utterly impossible to occur in "nature" and
again shows that all life was a most carefully DESIGNED
machine!

Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Alternative or Straw.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:37:20
EID:9e65 227b54a0
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed52aa
Hi Christopher,
(Re: yours of 19-Mar-1997, "Alternative or Straw".)

CH> Proteins are, if you don't
CH> remember, one of the fundamental building blocks in cell
CH> structure.

Again a typical half-truth and gross simplification that
students are given and thereby mislead and misinformed!
There are thousands of DIFFERENT proteins in living things
and each one is specific and precise - just the same as in
any complex machine, if it is going to work at all.

CH> There's no need for a supreme being anywhere in the
CH> equation.

If you were given any sensible and honest understanding
of the facts, you would see that INTELLIGENT DESIGN (by what
ever Designer you like to suggest) is the one major
discovery that science has made in this matter. At every
stage in the origin of life it is abundantly clear that
great expertise and scientific understanding and technology
is paramount and essential.

The more we research this matter the more it demonstrates
that a natural origin of life it utterly impossible. As far
back as 1955 this was thought to be the case, but since then
atheist scientists have desperately and unsuccessfully
searched for a natural explanation, but have now admitted
that their quest looks hopeless! i.e.;

'A general review of prebiological evolutionary theories
in 1988 by Klaus Dose concluded that "At present all
discussions on prinicipal theories and experiments in the
field either end in stalemate or in a confession of
ignorance." Gerald Joyce's 1989 review article ended with
the somber observation that origin of life researchers have
grown accustomed to a "lack of relevant experimental data"
and a high level of frustration.'

(Darwin on Trial, Phillip E. Johnson, 1991. page.107.)

A 1996 book entitled; Darwin's Black Box, by Michael J.
Behe, confirms this same picture. The rational explanation
of life is that it necessarily requires an Intelligent
Designer! THAT is what science has really found! Those who
try to agrue otherwise are simply showing that they have
been misled and poorly informed!

Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Missing Links.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:38:06
EID:8741 227b54c0
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed530f
Hi Christopher,
(Re: yours of 19-Mar-1997, "Alternative or Straw".)

>         "In the fossil record, missing links are the rule: ....The
>      more scientists have searched for the transitional forms that
>      lie between species, the more they have been frustrated."
>       (Newsweek, 3rd. November, 1980, p. 54)

CH>    Any creature with a sufficient number of differences
CH> from a given species is labeled as a different species.

Are you suggesting that even when these two "different
species" can interbreed and produce fertile offspring they
are STILL called different species?  If that is the case
then would you tell me how many "species" of DOGS that we
know of?

CH>     There's no such thing as a "transitional form" because
CH> evolutionary theory concerns itself with discrete steps. The
CH> continuous steps between those discrete points are all
CH> counted as microevolutionary advancements, and don't get
CH> counted as new species.

Perhaps you are trying to tell me that this view has
RECENTLY replaced that view that was believed and taught for
over 120 years. Is that what you are saying? Were you ever
taught about the famous peppered moth? It has been claimed
to be a major evidence of EVOLUTION IN ACTION, has it not?

Have you ever been told that;

"The history of most fossil species includes two features
particularly inconsistent with gradualism:

1. STASIS. Most species exhibit no directional change during
their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record
looking much the same as when they disappear, morphological
change is usually limited and directionless.

2. SUDDEN APPEARANCE. In any local area, a species does not
arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors:
it appears all at once and "fully formed.""

("The Panda's Thumb", The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary
Change, S.J. Gould, (1987 reprint), p. 151)

CH>  *baffle* Did you ever pass your 7th grade life sciences
CH> class?

Your problem seems to be that you never learned anything
SINCE then!

Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   John Brawley
|Sub:  Clones of Mammals.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:38:48
EID:f011 227b54c0
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed5362
Hi John,
(Re: yours of 18-Mar-1997, "Clones of Mammals.")

LA> evolution in terms of Amoeba to Man has NEVER been shown to
LA> occur anyway and 'evolution' in terms of what is called

JB>   How could one 'prove' to a nonbeliever, that something
JB> happened when there was no one around to observe it?  One
JB> couldn't. "Amoeba to man" is a cretinist smokescreen, a
JB> misleader of the first water.

How could that be such a smokescreen since, as you should
know, many evolutionists have described evolution in just
those terms? Are you trying to mislead and misinform the
naieve and the gullible?

JB>     You fail to face the consequences of "deep time,"
JB> preferring instead to hide in the Bible's warm little
JB> theological pond.

Since "deep time" is just a figment of fervid evolutionary
imagination then you are not making any sense. Since when
has TIME produced miracles rather than INTELLIGENT DESIGN!

JB> Still a liar, eh?

The boot is on the other foot of course!

JB> You'll never change.

You are the one that needs to change!

JB> May God forgive you your lies.

Are you talking about your imaginary "Quantum" god?

JB>     Evolution does not now nor has it ever said that man
JB> evolved from "monkeys," nor is it about "turning monkeys
JB> into people."

That is just plain IGNORANCE on your part of course and in
your way of speaking it would be called a blatant LIE!

JB> He'll disavow your creationist claptrap.

When will your funny imaginary "Quantum god" do that and
in what way will that bother me, if there is any truth in
your silly accusations? Are you suggesting that you
yourself will be rewarded with eternal life because of your
wild speculations? Alternatively how and when do you expect
to be rewarded for your conceited arrogance and lousy
personal attacks on others who disagree with your corny
murmurings?

Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Water and Flood.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:39:26
EID:dc59 227b54e0
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed53b7
Hi Dan,
(Re: yours of 21-Mar-1997, "Water and Flood.")

DC>   You have yet to provide facts, Laurie.  After all, all
DC> that you state is direct from the ICR.

That is ignorant poppycock.

LA> MOST, because I do not whether they MIGHT be some of the
LA> world's highest mountains that do not follow that general

DC>    Of course you don't "know", Laurie.  You were not given
DC> those facts as it ruins the case of your ICR handlers.

How do YOU know? Where are your facts?

DC>    Tell us about your excursion with Harry Truman, Laurie.
DC> Come on, the whole world is waiting for you to tell us.

Sure Dan, sure. So here is what you really need to know
about;
---------------------

yet fossilized; their organic matter was not yet replaced by
minerals. Buckland thought that the time elapsed since a
diluvial catastrophe could not have exceeded five or six
thousand years, the figure adopted also by De Luc, Dolomieu,
and Cuvier, each of whom presented his own reasons.

Then the illustrious geologist added these words: "What
[the] cause was, whether a change in the inclination in the
earth's axis, or the near approach of a comet, or any other
cause or combination of causes purely astronomical, is a
question the discussion of which is foreign to the object of
the present memoir."

The Aquatic Graveyards

The Old Red Sandstone is regarded as one of the oldest
strata with signs of extinct life in it. No animal life
higher than fish is found there. Whatever the age of this
formation, it carries the testimony and "a wonderful record
of violent death falling at once, not on a few individuals,
but on whole tribes."(1)

In the late thirties of the last century Hugh Miller made
the Old Red Sandstone in Scotland the special subject of his
investigations. He observed: "The earth had already become a
vast sepulchre, to a depth beneath the bed of the sea equal
to at least twice the height of Ben Nevis over its
surface."(2) Ben Nevis in the Grampian Mountains is the
highest peak in Great Britain, 4406 feet high. The stratum of
the Old Red Sandstone is twice as thick.

This formation presents the spectacle of an upheaval
immobilized at a particular moment and petrified forever.
Hugh Miller wrote:

"The first scene in [Shakespeare's] The Tempest opens
amid the confusion and turmoil of the hurricane - amid
thunders and lightnings, the roar of the wind, the shouts of
the seamen, the rattling of cordage, and the wild dash of the
billows. The history of the period represented by the Old Red
Sandstone seems, in what now forms the northern half of
Scotland, to have opened

-----------------------------------
± Hugè Miller¬ Thå Olä Reä Sandstonå (Boston¬ 1865» first
published in England in 1841), p. 48.

2 Ibid., p. 217.
-----------------------------------
(Earth in Upheaval, Immanuel Velikovsky, 1956, p. 180

Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Water and Flood (b).
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:40:10
EID:9f8c 227b5500
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed5417
Hi Dan,
(Re: yours of 21-Mar-1997, "Water and Flood (b).")

DC>  -> On 20 Mar 97, Laurie Appleton got back to Damien Wellman

LA> Then how do you account for the many many enormous
LA> graveyards of fossil animals in most parts of the world
LA> in sedimentary strata laid down rapidly by water?

DC>      And, Laurie, just how many of the fossils are so
DC> intermingled as to show a world wide flood being
DC> responsible?

Such massive graveyards are found in places in many
parts of the world. The following is one such situation;

----------------------------
EARTH IN UPHEAVAL

I. VELIKOVSKY

Chapter 1

IN THE NORTH

In Alaska

In Alaska, to the north of Mount Mckinley, the tallest
mountain in North America, the Tanana River joins the Yukon.
From the Tanana Valley and the valleys of its tributaries
gold is mined out of gravel and "muck". This muck is a frozen
mass of animals and trees.

F. Rainey of the University of Alaska described the scene
(1): "Wide cuts, often several miles in length and sometimes
as much as 140 feet in depth, are now being sluiced out along
stream valleys tributary to the Tanana in the Fairbanks
District. In order to reach gold-bearing gravel beds an
over-burden of frozen silt or 'muck' is removed with
hydraulic giants. This 'muck' contains enormous numbers of
frozen bones of extinct animals such as the mammoth,
mastodon, super-bison and horse."(2)

These animals perished in rather recent times; present
estimates place their extinction at the end of the Ice Age or
in early post-glacial times. The soil of Alaska covered their
bodies together with those of animals of species still
surviving.

Under what conditions did this great slaughter take
place, in which millions upon millions of animals were torn
limb from limb and mingled with uprooted trees?

F. C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico writes:
"Although the formation of the deposits of muck is not clear,
there is ample evidence that at least portions of this
material were deposited under catastrophic conditions. Mammal
remains are for the most part dismembered and disarticulated,
even though some fragments yet retain, in their frozen state,
portions of ligaments, skin, hair, and flesh. Twisted and
torn trees are piled in splintered masses....At least four
considerable layers of volcanic ash may be traced in these
deposits, although they are extremely warped and
distorted..."(3)

Could it be that a volcanic eruption killed the animal
population of Alaska, the streams carrying down into the
valleys the bodies of the slaughtered animals? A volcanic
eruption would have charred the trees but would not have
uprooted and splintered them; if it killed animals, it would
not have dismembered them.

The presence of volcanic ash indicates that a volcanic
eruption did take place, and repeatedly, in four
consecutive stages of the same epoch; but it is also
apparent that the trees could have been uprooted and
splintered only by hurricane or flood or a combination of
both agencies. The animals could have been dismembered only
by a stupendous wave that lifted and carried and smashed
and torå anä burieä millionó oæ bodieó anä millionó oæ
trees. Also, the area of the catastrophe was much greater
than the action of a few volcanoes could have covered.

Muck deposits like those of the Tanana River Valley are
found in the lower reaches of the Yukon in the western part
of the peninsula, on the Koyukuk River that flows into the
Yukon from the north, on the Kuskokwim River that empties its
waters into Bering Sea, and at several places along the
Arctic coast, and so "may be considered to extend in greater
or lesser thickness over all unglaciated areas of the
northern peninsula."(4)

What could have caused the Arctic Sea and the Pacific
Ocean to irrupt and wash away forests with all their animal
population and throw the entire mingled mass in great heaps
scattered all over Alaska, the coast of which is longer than
the Atlantic sea-board from Newfoundland to Florida? Was it
not a tectonic revolution in the earth's crust, that also
caused the volcanoes to erupt and to cover the peninsula with
ashes?

-------------------------------------
(1) F. Rainey, "Archaeological Investigation in Central
Alaska," American Antiquity, V (1940), 305.

(2) The horse became extinct in pre-Columbian America; the
present horses in the Western Hemisphere are descendants of
imported animals.
------------------------------
³  F.C®  Hibben¬  "Evidencå oæ Earlù  Maî  iî  Alaska,¢  Americaî
Antiquity¬ VIIÉ (1943)¬ 256
´ Ibid.
------------------------------------

Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   John Brawley
|Sub:  Harry Truman.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:40:52
EID:8190 227b5500
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed546a
Hi John,
(Re: yours of 20-Mar-1997, "Harry Truman.")

JB>     HOW MANY discarded hypotheses is an indication of the
JB> rapidity of evolution's accuratization --its improvement
JB> rate.

I have to agree that evolution has indeed "improved" over
the last couple of decades, with particular reference to
that decade of debates, where various evolutionists have
admitted that the Creation Scientists WON almost every one
of these open, public, scientific debates!

That is the sort of "improvement" that might well find
them "improving" all the way to the Garden of Eden! No
wonder evolutionists are now in the following almost chaotic
state!

"Superficially, it looks as if we know less now about how
evolution works than we did, say, even ten years ago. This
is because, as recently at a decade ago, there was something
approaching unanimity in the evolutionary ranks. Today,
though chaos is too strong a word, there is definitely
dissent in the ranks."

(The Monkey Business, Niles Eldredge, 1982, p. 52 as
quoted in; Creationists Answer their Critics, p. 238)

JB>    Science's glory is its technique, which yields
JB> ever-more-accurate, ever-closer images of actual reality.

Yes indeed. The closer it it forced by the facts to the
Creationist position the MORE accurate it becomes! A major
shift occurred when Gould and Eldredge managed to introduce
Punctuated Equilibria and the following has been greeted
with many a wry smile from Creationists, since it is in many
ways a close echo of their consistent claims;


"The history of most fossil species includes two features
particularly inconsistent with gradualism:

1. STASIS. Most species exhibit no directional change during
their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record
looking much the same as when they disappear, morphological
change is usually limited and directionless.

2. SUDDEN APPEARANCE. In any local area, a species does not
arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors:
it appears all at once and "fully formed.""

("The Panda's Thumb", The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary
Change, S.J. Gould, (1987 reprint), p. 151)

Laurie

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|From: Laurie Appleton
|To:   John Brawley
|Sub:  Popper & Metaphysics.
|Date: 27 Mar 97  10:41:54
EID:59ae 227b5520
MSGID: 3:640/238@Fidonet 89ed54ee
Hi John,
(Re: yours of 20-Mar-1997, "Harry Truman.")

LA>    Your constant reference to the revered word "science" in
LA> realation to evolution has to be a misleading deception and
LA> it is no wonder that Karl Popper wrote that;

LA>    "I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a
LA>  testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research
LA>  programme - a possible framework for testable theories. It
LA>  suggests the existence of a mechanism of adaptation and it
LA>  allows us to even study in detail the mechanism at work. And it
LA>  is the only theory so far which does that."
LA>  (UNENDED QUEST (1976), as referenced in; Darwin's Enigma, p. 28)

JB>   Sophist Liar Appleton again uses recanted words of
JB> philosopher, achieves yet another level of prevarication in
JB> service to his chosen religious belief-system....

Your position is not enhanced by such distorted and
ridiculous comments. In fact it makes you look distinctly
like some gutter type politicians.

Your long "import" by Jim Lippard is noted and a few
parts are used as prompts.

JB> 3.  Popper subsequently wrote:

JB>           I have changed my mind about the testability and logical
JB>        status of the theory of natural selection; and I am glad to
JB>        have an opportunity to make a recantation. ...

JB>         (Popper, "Natural Selection and
JB>        the Emergence of Mind," _Dialectica_ 32(1978):339-355; quotations
JB>        are from pp. 344-346)

The absurdity of that statement is that Creationists
themselves have always accepted the fact of natural
selection and the survival of the fittest. It has NOTHING to
do with evolution and never has, in SPITE of Darwin's false
assumption that it was the be-all and end-all of his corny
hypothesis. The following should put this matter in
perspective;

"There is no doubt that natural selection is a
mechanism, that it works. It has been repeatedly
demonstrated by experiments. There is no doubt at all that
it works. But the question of whether it produces new
species is quite another matter."

"No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of
natural selection. No one has ever gotten near and it most
of the current argument in neo-Darwinism is about this
question: how a species originates and it is there that
natural selection seems to be fading out and chance
mechanisms of one sort or another are being invoked."

(Dr Colin Patterson, on the subject of "Cladistics", in an
interview on British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
television, 4 March 1982. Colin Patterson is Senior
Palaeontologist at the British Museum of Natural History,
London.)

JB>     I have no less than three repetitions, on different
JB> dates in the PAST, where YOU originated this _same_ claim,
JB> and were flatly refuted by the above post's content.

Nothing has been refuted at all except perhaps natural
selection as a mechanism of macroevolution.

JB>    You are not only a liar, you're a liar who refuses to
JB> stand _corrected_.

To be "corrected" by a fool is the ultimate foolishness!

Laurie

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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 27 Mar 97  00:43:47
EID:571f 227b0560
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CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Richard Smith said this to me about Cracker
Barrel boycott

G'day Richard,

DC>> Aren't you the little bigot that claims that homosexuals
DC>> cannot repent?
ky>> Nope.

RS>  What a liar.

A chronic case of short-term selective memory loss by the looks of it. 

ky>> I was misunderstood.

RS>  Untrue.  He made the statement.  Maybe he wants to ammend it
RS>  now.

Doubtful. He'll just "let it slide" hoping we'll all forget it. Typical.

ky>> become Christian.  But once they accept Christ as
ky>> their savior, all homosexuality is gone.

RS>  Total beefola . . .

That about sums up his entire faith. But we've already established this
much.

MO>> Is it just me or does Jelly need taking out the back and 
MO>> given a few gangster slaps Al Capone style to snap him out 

RS>  If you're hoping to jar his brains into working, you'd first

While highly unlikely it _is_ a positive thought.

RS>  have to establish that he has any.

Evidence in favour of this being true has been lacking thusfar.  I feel
it
won't be forthcoming in the near future either.  I wonder when he thinks
the
second coming is due?  Hope it's soon and I hope it's on a Saturday. I don't
work Saturdays.


/\\ark...

... At birth we woke to dream in this world between.  -- Kan'ami Kiyotsugu
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   All
|Sub:  ...
|Date: 26 Mar 97  15:03:12
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CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Ken Young said this to Lynda Bustilloz about
...

[Jeezus]

LB>> Oh yea....and how did he get IN there? How was he conceived?

KY> Sometimes people look too hard for some complex answer.  He got in
KY> there, because God put him in there.  

God: "Now, Mary, this won't hurt although you might feel a bit of a prick".

Mary: "So, what else is new?"

--- Spot 1.3a #1526
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 26 Mar 97  15:16:39
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While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Ken Wiens said this to Martin Goldberg about
Accepting Reality

MG>> Saved to disk, Whines.  Another example of xtian charity. 
MG>> ROTFL!

KW>     Good. Maybe someday you'll have an ounce of concern for
KW>     the unborn child. Then again, it is likely the average
KW>     heathen will not. But typical, though, a heathen 
KW>     going ahead and letting off a "ROTFL!" on a subject
KW>     like this.

ROTFL!


/\\ark...

... Evolution's not *just* a theory like creationism's not *just* a lie.
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENC
|Date: 26 Mar 97  17:54:07
EID:62a5 227a8ec0
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CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, George Harper said this to Becke Boyer about
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENC

GH>>     Accounts in the Bible, which I am convinced is infallible.  If
you
GH>>     have evidence to the contrary, present it.

BB>> How many legs do grasshoppers have, George?

GH>      Not having had interest enough to check, I don't know.   I also

Of course you wouldn't, you ignorant fuck. FWIW, insects have six legs,
an
*UNDENIABLE FACT* even my seven year old niece is aware of. 


GH>      don't know what relevance that number has to my claim of
GH> infallibility
GH>      of the Bible...care to show the link?   Or is that another
GH> "pasquale-ism"
GH>      like the wager someone mentioned, somewhere?

Check this out, Georgie baby, from your own "infallible" bible.

Leviticus:

011:021 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth
upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap
withal upon the earth;

011:022 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and
the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind,
and the grasshopper after his kind.

011:023 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet,
shall be an abomination unto you.


Four legged insects, George? 

Infallible bible, George? 

Can you say "debunked", George?


/\\ark...

... Your IQ test results are back -- they're negative.
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  ARROGANCE
|Date: 27 Mar 97  01:15:52
EID:8a58 227b09e0
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CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, George Harper said this to Becke Boyer about
ARROGANCE




GH>    I am charged by my God to be concerned about the spiritual welfare
GH> of
GH>    all, as are all Christians.   Therefor, I fulfill this charge by

Firstly, you wanna fix your editor? I despise cleaning up sloppy text.

A clue, George, I am NOT a christian.  My life needs no propping up with
your
fucking god.  Next time you talk to him/her/it remind him/her/it that
his/her/its biggest mistake was granting myself and likeminded individuals
intelligence and the free-will to use it.  Watch your own back, George,
for
surely you have more to worry about after death than I.


/\\ark...

... Why do Christians worship a god that violated a virgin's civil rights?
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Don Martin
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 26 Mar 97  15:56:25
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While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Don Martin said this to Ken Young about Cracker
Barrel boycott

RS>> Rod "...you're really that stupid to try and put that one over
RS>> me?" Swift :)

KY>> Are you sure I am the stupid one? 

DM>     Why not? Everyone else is.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! 


/\\ark...

... Belief, believe, believes...conjugates of the verb "to blindly accept"
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Martin Goldberg
|Sub:  ...
|Date: 26 Mar 97  16:23:21
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CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Martin Goldberg said this to me about ...

G'day Martin,

[Jelly]

MO>> list of quotes that I threw back at him the other day was 
MO>> only partially answered. The one that I really wanted an 
MO>> answer to was omitted. Hmm...

MG> I don't know about Jelly.  He has made every ignorant fundy comment
MG> that they all mkae.  I think that he's trying to be stupid.

And doing an admirable job. His post continue to amuse though which, to
me, is
important. ;-)


/\\ark...

... Blind people don't bungee jump; it scares the dog too much.
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Mario Gonzalez
|Sub:  POLL
|Date: 27 Mar 97  01:17:07
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While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Mario Gonzalez said this to All about POLL

G'day Mario,

MG> THEISTWATCH SHORT SHOTS

MG>    While most Americans believe in heaven, who gets to go there after



Mate, keep these coming if you've got them. They're very interesting.

MG>                                            Dr. Mario Gonz lez 

Doctor in which field, may I ask? There's quite a few professionals in here.
Alas, I am not among them. ;)


/\\ark...

... Yes, it DOES require faith to actively disbelieve in Santa Claus.
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 27 Mar 97  01:00:27
EID:dec9 227b0800
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333a1b0b
REPLY: 1:270/420.0 33347952
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Ken Young said this to Christopher Hughes
about Cracker Barrel boycott

KY> God is who says who is a Christian and who isn't, and He authored a
KY> book that covers this topic quite well.

Show me _ONE_ reference in your bible that mentions christianity or christians.


/\\ark...

... ORGANIST TO GIVE ST. JOHN'S RECTAL. -- real headline (Richard Lederer)
--- Spot 1.3a #1526
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Shelby Sherman
|Sub:  Ken Young: Poster child
|Date: 27 Mar 97  01:57:03
EID:6a5a 227b0f20
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REPLY: 1:123/67 3333a1ab
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Shelby Sherman said this to Ken Young about
Ken Young: Poster child

G'day Shelby,

SS> Just as a reference, how old are you, Kenny?

*** Area: HOLYSMOKE                               Date: 23 Mar 97  0:24:02
*** From: Ken Young (1:270/420.0)
*** To  : Christopher Hughes
*** Subj: J.J. needs to be Hitt



CH> What do you think the
CH> benediction before every football game and graduation ceremony is?

I wouldn't know, as the schools I know of, don't allow it.  Even back when
I
was in high school(I graduated in 90), they were trying to stop prayer being
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^            




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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Rod Swift
|Sub:  God Scruffy
|Date: 27 Mar 97  01:48:57
EID:8ae0 227b0e00
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333a261b
REPLY: 3:690/660.0 332d2392
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Rod Swift said this to Fredric Rice about
God
Scruffy

G'day Rod,

FR>> But my tirade was _serious_!

RS> So was mine :) :)  Hair of the dog, Brother Fredric? :) :)

I *LOVE* trivia and spend a reasonable amount of time on the Etymology
pages looking for interesting things. My current fave is
http://www.phoenix.net/~melanie/thelogic.htm. Check it out one day. Some
interesting stuff on there. Anyway....

Trivia time:  The phrase "hair of the dog", as we all know, is having a
shot of beer or whatever in the morning after a heavy drinking session to
make us feel better.  (Yeah, RIGHT!).  Anyhow, it apparently has it's
origins back in ye olde days when rabid dogs were a bit of a problem.  As
far as the story goes when a victim of a rabid dog bite needed curing, a
herbalist(?) mixed up a foul brew containing all sorts of disgusting
ingredients including a single hair off the dog in question.  The bite
victim then had to swallow the entire concoction including the all
important dog hair.  This, apparently, was the only way to prevent the
onset of rabies.


/\\ark...

... According to Ken Young, Xtians who sodomize children are still Xtians.
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|From: Graham Drummond
|To:   Mark O'neill
|Sub:  Blavatsky
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:53:32
EID:21fa 227b76a0
MSGID: 3:640/375@fidonet 333ade4f
PID: CNet PRO 4.26a (final beta)
Mark wrote to Buster about the paradoxes involved in using Christians
as lightning conductors on church steeples:

GD> I just thought I'd let you all know that the most despised
GD> ex-HOLYSMOKE writer this side of Palestine is back, for a while
GD> at least.
MO> Welcome, Graham Erectus, Oh Great One who walketh about upright. :-)


Yeah, well, my knuckles still drag on the ground. :)

GD> ... O instrument of God, force-fed on ignorance and lies.. - Walkyier
MO> Top tag. Sounds vaguely familiar. Hmm... :)

Speaking of old Marty, you might be interested to read this:


------------------------------------------------------------
FROM: Ric Carter
TO: Me
SUBJ: Blavatsky

GD> mentioned in this song lyric by Martin Walkyier and I'd like to
GD> find out who it is.
GD> One man - one vision, racial purity,
GD> madman or magician? A mystery to me,
GD> he who scorns the teachings of Blavatsky count the cost,
GD> there's more than superstition hides behind the crooked cross.

"Madame" Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [1831-1891], co-founder of the
Theosophical Society [New York, 1875] was a circus equestrian,
traveler and "spiritualist" who populated her fantasies with
"Tibetan adepts", "Eqyptian mystic masters", etc... and her
writings were largely plagarisms from various works including
Ignatius Donnelly's ATLANTIS.  Blavatsky's doctrines include
the Great White Brotherhood, the Ascended Masters, and other
prototypes of fascist mysticism.  Read about her in DEJA VU:
The Hidden History of the New Age, by Jay Kinney, included in
THE FRINGES OF REASON, ed. by Ted Schultz [Harmony/Crown, 1989].

BTW "racial purity" is a crock of shit, and an exceedingly
bloody and deadly crock at that.  The entire song you quote
is a paean to hate, fear and violence.  Try something else.
------------------------------------------------------------

Hmm! Something tells me he doesn't recognise satire.

Gang warily
Buster

... Primus in orbe deos fecit timor - Petronius
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|From: Graham Drummond
|To:   Homer Simpson
|Sub:  Re: nu-bible.txt
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:53:39
EID:6c8a 227b76a0
MSGID: 3:640/375@fidonet 333ade58
PID: CNet PRO 4.26a (final beta)

F> "I dip my forefinger into the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer,
F> and write over his thorn-torn brow: The TRUE prince of evil - the king
of
F> slaves!" - The Infernal Diatribe/Anton Szandor La Vey
F> See how this works, boxhead?  No substance and no *evidence* that this
F> event has or will ever take place.  Save your quotes for someone who
knows
HS> Well like i said to you before Fleagle, you believe what you want, and
HS> i'll believe what i want.

Are you actually *reading* what Fleagle has written?

HS> that they like a certern car , house , song , food, and so on, that
HS> you did'nt like, would you give them crap, like you do to Jammer and
HS> myself? 

I would if they told me that the thing they liked was the only
good thing of its kind, and that everyone who doesn't like it
will suffer. 

F> Why is there no historical account of moses parting the Red Sea besides
F> your bible?  With the tens of thousands of people that made the journey
to
F> the promised land, surely at least one of them would have recorded the
F> event.  Or did they all bear false witness?  Give me one non-religious
F> account and I may believe it.
HS> Concerning Moses and other topics, i'll see what i can find.

Ha! I'll get back to you shortly!

Gang warily
Buster

... I'm in the Jehovah's Witness Protection Program.
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|From: Graham Drummond
|To:   Homer Simpson
|Sub:  Spelling is a lossed art
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:53:47
EID:62f3 227b76a0
MSGID: 3:640/375@fidonet 333ade5d
PID: CNet PRO 4.26a (final beta)

F> _I_ don't know what I'm talking about? And you do?
HS> yes i do know what im talking about, not beacuse i speak not of
HS> myself, but becuase i speak of JESUS.

Why do you worship Jesus? Aren't you meant to be worshipping God?
Jesus does not exist any more except in fables.

Oh, yeah, you like Bible quotes, eh? Compare these.

------------------------------------------------------------
Numbers 23:19 - "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither
the son of man, that he should repent."

Exodus 32:14 - "And the Lord repented of the evil which he
thought to do unto his people."
------------------------------------------------------------
Exodus 33:20 - "Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no
man see me, and live."

Genesis 32:30 - "I have seen God face to face."
------------------------------------------------------------
Matthew 19:26 - "Jesus ... said unto them, With men this is
impossible; but with God all things are possible."

Judges 1:19 - "And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the
inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."
------------------------------------------------------------

Check six
Buster

... I call Christianity...the *one* mortal blemish of mankind. - Nietzsche
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|From: Graham Drummond
|To:   Eric Draven
|Sub:  god in my visions
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:53:47
EID:7307 227b76a0
MSGID: 3:640/375@fidonet 333ade61
PID: CNet PRO 4.26a (final beta)
Connor. Speed. Draven. Henderson. Beale.

ED> but the bible you people are balieving in now is ridiculous!
ED> He says most importantly is for you to be yourself! 
ED> NOt what the pope is TELLING you to be!

Amen to that!

Check six
Buster

... So much wrong could religion induce. - Lucretius
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|From: Graham Drummond
|To:   Sue Armstrong
|Sub:  nu-bible.txt
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:53:55
EID:df69 227b76a0
MSGID: 3:640/375@fidonet 333ade64
PID: CNet PRO 4.26a (final beta)
Hitler. Stalin. Armstrong. Mussolini. Mao Tse Tung. Drummond.

Ja> What's more, It says in the Bible(tm) that if you tell people once and
Ja> they argue, just leave.
GD> Why?
SA> Because even the writers knew it wouldn't stand up to proper
SA> scrutiny? 

It seems too many xtians are afraid of intelligence.

Check six
Buster

... Easter has been cancelled. They found the body.
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Rod Swift
|Sub:  Ha!
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:13:24
EID:d20c 227b71a0
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333ad4e4
REPLY: 3:690/660.0 33325ace
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Rod Swift said this to me about Ha!

G'day Rod,

MO>> nails and as rough as guts. I defy anyone to call this gentleman
MO>> "giggly".

MO>>  RS> Maybe we should introduce Jimson to him :) :)

MO>> Sounds like a top idea to me mate. Afterall, young Staalin only lives
a
MO>> few miles from here. Perhaps I could start an innocent discourse on

RS> No.  Jimson is in Michigan.  We'd be introducin' Laurie to him :)

Doh! I fucked up! Could you ever forgive me? ;-)


/\\ark...

... Apathy error:  Don't bother striking any key.
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Rod Swift
|Sub:  Exemplifying examples
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:15:47
EID:38c4 227b71e0
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333ad573
REPLY: 3:690/660.0 33326d7c
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Rod Swift said this to me about Exemplifying
examples

G'day Rod,

MO>> Hmm... I shudder to think. I wonder if his wife/other half is a
MO>> fruitcake as well?

RS> Probably as nutty as!

Or as meek as. :-/

MO>> Trying to catch up on a backlog of mail ATM.  I'm getting mail
a
MO>> month old thanks to fido + I moved house a couple of days ago and

RS> Well, just remember to get going on the packets asap! :)

It's coming! It's coming! :-) Got another 13 messages to add to the list
today. I'm slowly clawing my way back. ;-)


/\\ark...

... A book is the only immortality.
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Rod Swift
|Sub:  [1/3] Cheese Whiz
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:18:34
EID:22db 227b7240
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333ad61a
REPLY: 3:690/660.0 33326df8
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Rod Swift said this to me about [1/3] Cheese
Whiz

G'day Rod,

[Staalin]

RS>     Remember this folks.....

MO>> Better than that mate. Tagged and archived. 

RS> And remember to hold it against him at EVERY point.

:-) Last night I set my mailer to keep a base 20,000 messages in this
area. I'll up it when I need more. BTW, that mormon anti-masturbation
guide was a pisser. Damn near fell off me chair. ;-)


/\\ark...

... "Light the Wickramsingh and throw the damn thing!"
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Rod Swift
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 27 Mar 97  14:20:10
EID:e8c3 227b7280
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333ad67a
REPLY: 3:690/660.0 33327da0
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Rod Swift said this to me about Cracker Barrel
boycott

G'day Rod,

MO>> Is it just me or does Jelly need taking out the back and given a few
MO>> gangster slaps Al Capone style to snap him out of it? I'd be worried
if
MO>> I thought he was serious.

RS> He is serious, and we are worried.  Nuts like him, in about 2-3
RS> years, are out murdering gays for Jesus.

:-( A fundy with a gun. What more could you ask for? :-(


/\\ark...

... "I seemed to have misplaced my brain, again." : Steve Hayes
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Fredric Rice
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  00:41:07
EID:3014 227c0520
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333ad7ba
REPLY: 1:218/890@FidoNet 2892816c
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Fredric Rice said this to me about
Educational Experienc

G'day Fredric,

[George Harper]

GH>>     The Flood:  Noah took several HUNDRED years building the Ark, and
GH>> and back them up with common sense arguments at least as strong as

FR> 

Ain't it a pisser!  I may be going out on a limb here but I'll jump in and
say that I find the idea of a 200 year old man ripping around the
countryside in a homemade boat a little ridiculous.  Am I being too harsh?



mon>> Need anything be said?

FR> They don't even try any more, huh?

To be an idiot? No. 


/\\ark...

... T'was a women who drove me to drink. Never had the chance to thank her
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Rod Swift
|Sub:  The IRCops are comin
|Date: 28 Mar 97  00:42:04
EID:5acf 227c0540
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333afd43
REPLY: 3:690/660.0 33337bb8
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Rod Swift said this to Jason Harmon about
The
IRCops are comin

G'day Rod,

JH>>   classic "Fuck the skull of Jesus!" No one could take offense with
JH>>   that.

RS> Oh, ok.  For a limited time I have the "FUCK THE SKULL OF JESUS"
RS> picture that was drawn for the newsgroup alt.fuck.the.skull.of.jesus

I'd like it mate. I can grab it off your webpage or you can email it to:

moneill@erebor.apana.org.au or fleagle@verbal.apana.org.au

Apana is currently upgrading their software (fuck Apana shit me to
tears!), so email may bounce. :(


/\\ark...

... snerkum jerkum herkum giggle me Elmo  -- David Ragland
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Ha!
|Date: 27 Mar 97  17:20:24
EID:1579 227b8a80
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333b00b8
REPLY: 1:228/45.5 3e307ca8
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Jim Staal said this to Dan Ceppa about Ha!

JS>> Not at all. Just sticking to the letter of what I actually said. I
JS>> think this stuff out carefully, you know.

DC>> IOW, Jimbo, you careful edit your quotes instead of outright
DC>> lying your ass off.

JS> I careful about what I say, yes.
^

Obviously, Jim. Obviously.


/\\ark...

... "Honest, Centurion!  I thought that horse was inflatable!" - Jesus aged
14
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|From: Mark O'Neill
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  jesus needed...
|Date: 27 Mar 97  17:29:42
EID:71e2 227b8ba0
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333b02e6
REPLY: 1:123/67.5 33368b57
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, Dan Ceppa said this to Ken Wiens about jesus
needed...

G'day Dan,

RS>> Your own dead homo on a stick is even un-Biblical :)

KW>> That concept is most certainly un-Biblical.

DC> So, Ken:  why _do_ you worship a dead homo on a stick?  

"Dead homos on a stick. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Only
half a dinar."


/\\ark...

... "I wonder who they could mean," said Loki innocently....
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|From: God Mark
|To:   God Dan
|Sub:  Motion Passed
|Date: 27 Mar 97  17:35:17
EID:ae35 227b8c60
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333b0435
REPLY: 1:123/67.5 33368f14
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, God Dan said this to God Mark about Motion
Passed

MS>> HOW CAN YOU BOTH USE THE LORDS NAME IN VEIN?

GM>> Fuck off, you silly cow.

GD> I wonder what the poor deluded fool will say now.  After all, 
GD> there are now 3 Gods in this thread.  

The more the merrier IMO. A bit of (un)common sense doesn't go astray.

GD> Let's form a Trinity and send her to hell for her blasphemy!  

Maybe we could form a barber shop quartet? All we need is another god. I
don't think it'll hard to find another one.


/\\ark...

... "You have no knowledge of your true potential." - Ramirez.
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|From: God Mark
|To:   God Dan
|Sub:  Motion Passed
|Date: 27 Mar 97  17:37:00
EID:ae35 227b8ca0
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333b049c
REPLY: 1:123/67.5 33368fdd
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, God Dan said this to God Glodbreg about Motion
Passed

MS>> HOW CAN YOU BOTH USE THE LORDS NAME IN VEIN?

GG>> It's easy.  Just change the "from" field.

GD> Wouldn't it be better to get her to learn how to use her 
GD> FUCKING CAPS LOCK KEY first, God Glodberg?  
^^^^^^^^^^^^

He's incognito. Doesn't want the peasants falling at his feet and shit.


/\\ark...

... "Zero is a blasphemous tool of your cunning!"  'John Brawley'
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|From: God Mark
|To:   God Dan
|Sub:  another for the FAQ
|Date: 28 Mar 97  00:43:03
EID:dc71 227c0560
MSGID: 3:640/375.1 333b05e5
REPLY: 1:123/67.5 3336a279
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
While discussing the paradoxes involved in using Christians as lightning

conductors on church steeples, God Dan said this to Judith Bandsma about
another for the FAQ

GD> Sincerely your (And Mary Smiths' I'm sure!),  

GD> God Dan  

GD> PS:  Don't use my name in vein. 

You infidel! Using *MY* name in vein! I'll bet you control of an
insignificant, mis-guided race that my devout followers can spread more
lies than yours can!

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|From: Joel Pethuel
|To:   Karl Schneider
|Sub:  Holy Smoke
|Date: 27 Mar 97  22:33:48
EID:a055 227bb420
MSGID: 1:352/666 333B6D33
KS> CT>What is this echo all about?
KS>
KS> About 12,500 miles.
Is that nautical miles??



... nfx v2.6 [C0000] When in doubt....ask someone!
--- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (#10000)
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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   J.J. Hitt
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 28 Mar 97  06:28:04
EID:21bb 227c3380
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333bd017
REPLY: 1:106/9788.2 7780e56d
TID: FastEcho 1.45a 10440
-=> J.J. complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to Harper <=-

H> escaped post-war Europe and established a research and 
H> experimentation center in the jungles of South America. 

JH> Do you have any way of verifying this? (And dont you think it

This was also a subtext of the game 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream'.
If you can't trust Harlan Ellison, who can you trust?


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  ridiculous belief
|Date: 28 Mar 97  06:31:34
EID:3c2a 227c33e0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333bd018
REPLY: 1:381/123@fidonet.org 55922fa1
TID: FastEcho 1.45a 10440
-=> Katherine complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to Judith
<=-

KW> Remember, George doesn't need *facts*.  He *believes*.  Just like
KW> those suckers you used to fleece back when you were a carnie.

I know, Katherine. But shearing them is so much faster and you even get
to shed a little blood now and then.

I actually had to be NICE to those marks. At least to their faces.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  CRACKER BARREL BOYCOT
|Date: 28 Mar 97  06:33:38
EID:f666 227c3420
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333bd019
REPLY: 1:381/123@fidonet.org 805f3aa5
TID: FastEcho 1.45a 10440
-=> Katherine complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to Karl
<=-

KW> Karl, my dear, what ever gave you the idea that you had the ability
to
KW> turn or not turn the Harpies loose?  

Get ready for the newest entry on the GOO pages. And this button will be
set apart from all the rest. Care to suggest some good music to add?


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  CRACKER BARREL BOYCOT
|Date: 28 Mar 97  06:35:34
EID:f666 227c3460
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333bd01a
REPLY: 1:381/123@fidonet.org 7215bd2b
TID: FastEcho 1.45a 10440
-=> Katherine complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to Ken <=-

KW> deity that we're talking about here, or a really bad sitcom?

I picture Tim Allen and Roseanne Barr in a sort of Home (Un)Improvements...
only on a global scale.


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|From: Dave Hamilton
|To:   Don Martin
|Sub:  Book
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:31:50
EID:26e2 227c53e0
REPLY: 1:261/1000.0 333a80d5
MSGID: 1:229/622 333b9ea0
CHRS: IBMPC 2
TID: FastEcho 1.45a 10440
DM>     As I get it together, I shall post pieces of it here for
DM> comments, corrections, suggestions, additions, etc.

DM>     Comments?

I think it a wonderful idea and cannot imagine someone better
equipped to tackle it than yourself. You certainly have my
permission to quote anything I contribute that you might deem
relevant.

Good luck! I'll look forward to whatever comes of it.

--- FleetStreet 1.18+
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|From: George Harper
|To:   Judith Bandsma
|Sub:  FREEDOM OF CHOICE
|Date: 28 Mar 97  06:52:12
EID:7a25 227c3680
MSGID: 1:104/447 2c06e190
TID: GE 1.1+

KD> Then he made a certain percentage of his people homosexual. There must
GLH> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

GLH> And you, I presume, DO have evidence to support your claim?

JB> Yep, your very own source...the bible. Says that god created
JB> EVERYTHING. Weren't you the one that said the bible is inerrant?


Yes, I said the Bible is infallible, ergo inerrant.  YES! God IS the Creator
of All Things.   Yes, God is the Author of ALL life!  Yes, God even created,
via the heterosexual coupling of various pairs, even the persons who 
subsequently CHOSE to follow a homosexual life-style.   Ergo, you are
TECHNICALLY correct...God DID create the persons who became homosexual.

Don't celebrate too soon...read on!

You merely scored a minor point!  Homosexuality IS - and always will remain
-
nothing more, nor less, than a freely-made lifestyle choice.  God created
YOU female 
human being....He made Don Martin  a MALE...that's the set...
Male and Female...no inbetweens, no neutrals...

While there ARE milieu in which persons are raised that MAY pre-dispose

them to selecting a same-gender sexual orientation, the final decision
to enter and live that lifestyle is THEIR FREE WILL CHOICE, freely made.


For the uninformed:  milieu   a total environment,
encompassing all things that have impact on any designated subject....
(This is the thumbnail definition from my Psych 101 text, c1975)

Now...AGAIN...I challenge you to prove that Homosexuality is the result
of any genetic structure or other physical causal factors...If your
evidence is properly stated, and includes *unbiased* MEDICALLY provable
statements, I will admit defeat, and apologize to all homosexually-oriented
persons for having thought they had a choice.  BTW: I decide biases in this
matter, so include the names of your sources, and location, so that I
can, if I want, verify their lack of bias.

... All I need is a Wave and a board to surf it on.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

--- mil failte, caraid
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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Ed Mills
|Sub:  Book
|Date: 28 Mar 97  08:09:01
EID:841b 227c4120
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333bdcda
REPLY: 1:105/24.12 4a713474
Ed Mills said "Book" to Don Martin,
adding:

DM>     As I get it together, I shall post pieces of it here for
DM> comments, corrections, suggestions, additions, etc.
EM>
EM> Egad! I've had this same idea. Also have vainly saved all my own
EM> posts (what few there have been) and selected ones here & there.
EM>
EM> Wouldn't it be nice to have a chapter containing a short interview
EM> of each HS regular? Someday we could all wind up as a collective
EM> national treasure - like the Mouseketeers or something. Hi mom!
EM> I'm on tee-vee... er, in a book!

You do good stuff, Mills, but you simply haven't rolled
around here long enough to have gathered enough floppy disks
filled with moss. This is a great idea, though. I had
already thought of asking for "favorites" from everyone's
archives, but "observations" (this medium does not do
interviews reliably) from various participants, written
expressly for inclusion in the book, might make an excellent
chapter, or headnotes to the various chapters, or both. I
welcome all such material, either here or by email.

I _will_, incidentally, edit such material for length
and for typos; in all cases where I do anything substantive,
I will run the result by the author for approval. The
chapters will be posted here in any event.

Here are some chapter ideas so far:

---------
o Introduction:
Mainstream vs fringe POVs as determinants in
thinking styles.

o HolySmoke:
The arena. Religious debate. Topics not broached in
"polite" society. The Rules. Being kicked off the
echo. Fundies. WOAs. Religion and politics.

o Gods = >1.5 million: Evidence = 0
The ways in which gods for whose existence no
evidence exists differ from nonexistent gods. The
nature of evidence. Why the "word of God" is not
evidence for the existence of God.

o Floods and The Flood:
Opportunity for the spiritual to leave some physical
footprints. Marine fossils on mountaintops! Four-lane
highways to the top of Arrarat and other Turkish
wonders (including steering wheels). Scientific
reflections on atmospheric pressures, heat of
formation, hydrospheres and the like.

o Why are you so angry?
The fundy interest in delving into the psychology of
anyone asking embarrassing questions.

o Kill the faggots
And keep their partners from embarrassing the family
by coming to the funeral.

o Abortion as a social occasion
The slut deserves to be a mother (after all, MY
mother did).

o The Bible of the Inerrantists
HOPPERS! Pi. General confusions, scribal errors,
conflicting data: God is My Proofreader.

o When prayer is outlawed from schools, only outlaws will pray
in class.

o The Fundy Shuffle
Favorite evasions and logical fallacies.

o Fundy Farewells:
Sheneisms. Pray for you. Pitchforks.
-----------

I welcome suggestions. Warmly.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Judith Bandsma
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:48:29
EID:9894 227c5e00
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333c03d5
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Judith Bandsma said "Driving Mr. Daisy" to Don Martin,
adding:

DM> See if you can figure out on your own (no coaching from
DM> the audience, please!) a plausible explanation for
DM> varicosity and hemorrhoids. I await the attempt with
DM> interest.

JB> Shit, Don. I already uploaded a reply with those
JB> answers to him before I read this. Sorry.

JB> However, I have no doubts that his reply will be 'I
JB> still don't understand how it does that'.

I began my reply before reading the last two lines and
discovered that I was saying essentially the same thing. Is
it great minds? Or is it predictable targets?


Later, you say to the dear boy himself:

KY> If someone didn't have homosexual sex, it wouldn't mean
KY> greed, but rather that they were willing to stand on
KY> principle, no matter what.

JB> Why are you talking 'greed'? Rod's example said that
JB> your whole FAMILY was going to be killed if you didn't
JB> have sex with the agent.

JB> So you are saying that you find gay sex more repulsive
JB> than the deaths of people you love?

JB> How sweet. Have you told your family you feel this way
JB> about them?

It is a good deal easier for him to have to tell them
_that_ than it would be for him to go through with the sex
and have to tell them how much he enjoyed it.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 28 Mar 97  12:21:10
EID:a889 227c62a0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
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Richard Smith said "clones" to George Harper,
adding:

MB> There's a HUGE difference between cloning and artificial
MB> insemination.
gh> Of course there is...AI involves the use of semen entering the
gh> cow's uterus, by way of an injection.   Cloning is where the
gh> researcher implants live, viable DNA samples into a uterus.

RS> Not quite.  Just putting DNA into the uterus isn't enough.
RS> It must be put in an egg before the egg is put into the
RS> uterus.  You need to do a bit more reading on it.

George's failure to grasp the finer points of cloning to
one side, have you ever pondered the question of whether or
not Jahweh possesses DNA? The ramifications thereof are
interesting.

Not to mention the fact that the Holy Genome Project
would _really_ require a lot of research grants . . .

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Marty Leipzig
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  12:27:44
EID:f4f1 227c6360
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333c03d7
REPLY: 1:106/4015.0 6caa50eb 
Marty Leipzig said "Educational Experienc" to Judith Bandsma,
adding:

JB> Hint for you...it hasn't.

GH> Perhaps YOU need to read up on recent (last 30 years) history?

JB> No, you need to talk to Marty Leipzig...and the Turkish authorities.
JB> No ark. A tribe of natives that are making a killing selling pieces
of
JB> it that they manufacture themselves. And some bandits who are making
a
JB> (literal) killing ransoming back the nuts who try looking for it.

JB> But no ark.

ML> George won't talk to me.

ML> GOAT!

ML> I'm *so* depressed...

He's been asking after you, though. Only last night he
was complaining that everybody here is sending him to Marty
and he doesn't know why (though he _suspects_ that Marty
might be another of those WOAs).

Good to see you back. How's your punctuation mark?

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 28 Mar 97  12:31:13
EID:f4e3 227c63e0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
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Unctuously addressing his point, KY said "Cracker Barrel
boycott" to Rod Swift, adding:

KY> Gays can become Christians, but not while they are gay.

RS> Bullshit. Galatians 2:16-21 states that no one is bound
RS> by the law if they accept Jesus Christ personally.

KY> True, but accepting Him is accepting what He stands for
KY> and accepting what He says is right and wrong, so
KY> therefore one could not accept Him as a homosexual.

Apart from the fact that you _still_ haven't offered any
evidence that your imaginary superfriend is anything more
than a construct of human imagination, where does _Jesus_
(and not those other homophobic motherfuckers) say that
homosexuality is wrong?

Let he who is without sin enjoy the first orgasm!

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 28 Mar 97  12:40:50
EID:2056 227c6500
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333c03d9
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George Harper said "clones" to J.J. Hitt,
adding:

JH>  Do you have any way of verifying this? (And dont you think it
JH>  would be a good idea to confirm such a claim before one goes
JH>  and repeats it in an international forum?)

GH> This is sound advice...how come it only applies to claims made by
GH> Christians?   I don't see ANY substantiation offered for claims that
GH> the God I follow is a myth,

I have never claimed that. I _have_ asked you for some
evidence that the god you follow _exists_ beyond the level
of human imagination. I have seen bullshit from your end,
attempts to lay down rules for others, assertions that you
once had a teacher who supposed that evidence exists, but no
evidence.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  ARROGANCE
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:09:41
EID:af95 227c4920
MSGID: 1:123/67 333b8b8f
REPLY: 1:104/447 2b97c991
PID: GED3 2.51.a901 124LM3
27 Mar 97 23:06, quoting George Harper to Martin Goldberg:

MG>> to hell. I will not.  No hell exists for me.  It's only it he
MG>> minds of xtian fools.

GH> I admit the statistical odds appear overwhelming.  If you believe your
GH> odds are better than mine...show me the math!  I dare you!

It's not his burden to show you the math, you logical train wreck.  It
is the burden of the individual making the _positive assertion_ to provide
convincing evidence to support their claim.

If _you_ claim that hell exists, then you get to provide the evidence. 
Do
you have any?

GH> And if YOU
GH> are wrong, and the RIGHT choice has a hell, you're gonna fry along
GH> with all the others who made a bad choice, no matter how strong your
GH> denial.

The Cosmic Star Goat (The one and only True God) sent his only forgotten
son,
Billy, to die on the Wholly B-B-Q Pit for our sins.

If you do not BELIEVE in Billy,

you will be eaten on Judgment Day by The Cosmic Star Goat, to stew in the
Wholly Bile for all of eternity.

You can avoid this eternity of punishment by being bathed in the Wholly
Piss of The Cosmic Star Goat and having all of your SINS washed away.

This Cosmic TRUTH is based on faith which is my EVIDENCE of the existence
of the Cosmic Star Goat and his son, Billy.  This FAITH is EVIDENCE for
me
but not for you, since you must first BELIEVE in The Cosmic Star Goat for
the EVIDENCE to be revealed to you.

Since you cannot PROVE that The Cosmic Star Goat does not exist, you must
consider the possibility that she does exist, and therefore The Cosmic
Star Goat does exist for all who will BELIEVE in hir.

BELIEF does impact EXISTENCE and all you have to do is to BELIEVE in The
Cosmic Star Goat and she will exist.

No matter how strong your denial, little fundie.  Now, why don't you believe
in Goat?



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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  CHRISTANIC TERRORISTS
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:13:39
EID:c98d 227c49a0
MSGID: 1:123/67 333b8beb
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27 Mar 97 22:43, quoting George Harper to Katherine Wintersnight:


KW>> I'm beginning to wonder if there is some sort of assembly line for
KW>> guys like you--it seems that about every four months we get
KW>> another one spouting the same lines, bustling in with the same
KW>> ego, and in the end howling the same lines as they run for the
KW>> door.

GH> Don't hold your breath! you aren't going to get rid of me that
GH> easily... and my ego is worth bustling in with...

Oh, you will, bruised, debunked and bleeding, fleeing to the sanctity
and safety of a hard disk crash.

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  How About 1-On-1?
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:17:17
EID:13a8 227c4a20
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27 Mar 97 21:33, quoting George Harper to Jim Staal:

GH> My congregation has a young pastor...this is his second pulpit, but
GH> he
GH> left the first one after four months to come to our church...who is
GH> interested in seeing what sort of things "the opposition" is saying
in
GH> a forum like this one...I am going to start selecting an occasional
GH> sample from the very few rational posts in this echo and printing them
GH> out for him...Don't think it will take a lot of time to print, tho,
GH> since the average post is about 5 rational words, and two screens full
GH> of invective and garbage. 

Ask him the following:

Is there a single faith and life after death?

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

With what matters did God occupy him/herself in all the eons before creation?

Why was it necessary to put a protective seal on the brow of Cain if there
were no other people to protect him from?

Did Adam and Eve produce daughters?

Is once saved always saved?

Do the souls of aborted fetuses go to hell?

Do the millions that never heard of Jesus Christ go to hell?

If a man in China died one day after the crufixion is it fair for him to
go
to hell?

If the flood was a fabrication, then how can anyone believe John 3:16?

Do the souls of all the severly mentally retarded go to hell if they do
not believe?

Is it fair for the soul of a nine year old girl that lived in Asia in the
first
century to go to hell because she has never heard of Jesus Christ?

How could only 300 generation possibly produce what we have on earth today?

Why does a bird look like a lizard?





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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:18:55
EID:6c03 227c4a40
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27 Mar 97 00:12, quoting Ken Young to Rod Swift:


KY> True, but accepting Him is accepting what He stands for and accepting
KY> what He says is right and wrong, so therefore one could not accept Him
KY> as a homosexual.

And your evidence for this is?

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel Boycot
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:21:32
EID:01ca 227c4aa0
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26 Mar 97 20:47, quoting Richard Smith to Shelby Sherman:

kw>> Ya gotta love it when heathens can't even get their crap
kw>> together enough to work in harmony against the christians!
kw>> cc: Jim Staal

RS>  Whines clearly doesn't understand banter.  Not a surprize.

Whine doesn't understand that EVERYONE is subject to scrutiny here, whether
they be brain-dead bible thumping fundies, starry-eyed pagans, or Quantum,
non local, Non Zero bait handlers and morphine haters.

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  My Summer Weekend
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:41:18
EID:1583 227c5520
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REPLY: 1:228/45.5 69e21778
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25 Mar 97 11:59, quoting Jim Staal to Shelby Sherman:


SS>> Where's your evidence that I have to serve anybody, especially a
SS>> god or a satan that you cannot even demonstrate to exist, BRIGHT
SS>> BOY?

JS> Did I mention the Book of Dylan, Chapter 1?

Thanks for continuing to confirm that you are a total moron.

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  George Harper: Poster chi
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:42:52
EID:f38c 227c5540
MSGID: 1:123/67 333ba1b0
REPLY: 1:104/447 2b097e36
PID: GED3 2.51.a901 124LM3
26 Mar 97 08:35, quoting George Harper to Mark O'neill:

GH>  I'm glad I had the presence of mind to set this to adults only
GH> access.... kids hear enough garbage-mouthed profanity as it is.

GH>  Suffice it to say:  When I was a child, I reasoned as a child
GH>                      now, being a man, I reason as a man

So this is why you believe in magic gardens, talking snakes, ridiculous
global flood myths, major bodies of water magically parting, the earth
ceasing to rotate on its axis for a day, floating iron axe heads, giant
fish swallowing men, human women being impregnated by holy spirits,
walking on water, changing wine to water and getting out of the grave
after being dead for three days.....right?

GH>                      All the contradictions you see are only in
GH>                      your imagination....point one out and see how
GH>                      many times it is shown how mistaken you are.

The contradictions and myths in the bible are REAL.  Shutting yours eyes
tight and murmurring "Is Not" doesn't make them go away.


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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George L. Harper
|Sub:  CRACKER BARREL BOYCOT
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:51:31
EID:553a 227c5660
MSGID: 1:123/67 333ba324
REPLY: 1:104/447 2b097e3d
PID: GED3 2.51.a901 124LM3
26 Mar 97 09:06, quoting George L. Harper to Karen Davis:


GH> That is stupid!  Of course there have been changes in topography, and
GH> there have been thousands of years accumulation of geologic deposits.
GH> However, geology is an unchageable science.

I'm assuming you mean "unchangeable" and this is as ridiculous and
ignorant a statment that I've ever seen in here.

Ever hear of plate techtonics, bright one?  Was this theory always
embraced?



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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:06:32
EID:242e 227c58c0
MSGID: 1:123/67 333ba6e5
REPLY: 1:203/9046.0 33384346
PID: GED3 2.51.a901 124LM3
25 Mar 97 16:27, quoting Richard Smith to Shelby Sherman:

RS>  * Original msg to: George Harper

RS>  RIP Verna Mae Russell 1911-96
RS>  Georgie Harper said to Shelby Sherman about clones:

SS>> You remain predictably clueless.  Human cloning, just
SS>> like the evidence of life on Mars is just another nail
SS>> in the coffin of your narrow superstitous xtian cult.
gh>> Would you explain the thinking (you DO know what
gh>> thinking IS, don't you?)

RS>  Sure do, Georgie.  It's what makes that grinding noise in
RS>  your skull.  You really should get that lubed, you know.
RS>  Your ears are starting to smoke.

...Great parbroiling, Richard. Too bad that it will probably be lost
on this clueless simp.

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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:06:08
EID:a93f 227c48c0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333be507
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GH> of you  can also explain why *I* should accept *his* account as
GH> evidence, since he  obviously is one of your like-thinkers.   I doubt

Because he's been there. Up close and personal. You rely on 3rd hand 
accounts from someone who 'says' they know what they are talking about.

Please notice the FACT that we aren't relaying to you what Marty will say.
Only that you do need to talk to him directly.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENC
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:08:30
EID:a93f 227c4900
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
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GH> kosher  and what isn't>.   The account CLEARLY places grasshoppers in
GH> the category of  edible SMALL INSECTS.   This means it has to have at
GH> LEAST 6 legs...read it  again if you want to check my comprehension.


I have read it...numerous times. It says FOUR legs...count 'em...4. I
don't have to check your comprehension, only your reading ability. And
I don't see how you get 6 out of the WORD four.

GH> Rabbits DO chew a cud, by the  way...watch one, sometime.   And because

You are talking to someone who grew up on a farm. Rabbits do NOT chew a
cud. They only have one stomach. Only ruminants chew a cud. Rabbits,
however, DO eat their first shit of the morning. Perhaps this is what you
are thinking of.

GH> a bat has hollow bones, and wings, it is properly placed in the
GH> category of birds... 

Wrong on the hollow bones. Bats are MAMMALS. They do not share any 
characteristics with birds except wings. And even those wings are NOT
birdlike in either structure or form.

GH> the contrary, presented since the postulation of this theory, has been
GH> proven scientifically to be inaccurate or blatantly counterfeit.    you say "Pilt-Down Man"?> 

You can't accept partial evolution. That's like being a little bit pregnant.
Doesn't happen.

And can YOU remember exactly WHO the perpetrators of Pilt-Down Man were?
And who eventually discovered and announced the fact of the fraud?

Didn't think so. You see, one of the people who put this hoax together was
a priest of the Church of England. And the people who uncovered it, when
they finally had the technology to do so, were scientists.

I do hope you can do better than this. My 8 year old granddaughter has a
better grasp on facts than you do.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:17:54
EID:a93f 227c4a20
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333be509
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GH> Genesis 9:28 (The Living Bible): "After the Flood, Noah lived 350
GH> years and died at the age of 950 years".   Look it up...in any version
GH> or  translation of your choosing...

That does not say a word about how long it took him to build the ark.
And no, those numbers are NOT in my KJV.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:19:22
EID:9ea6 227c4a60
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GH> If the daughter of a "fundamentalist mother" was obedient to that
GH> mother, regardless of her age and lack of education, she would not BE

GH> pregnant...unless YOU know of some method of sexual congress that can
GH> happen remotely...and tell us where to get the remote control, too,
GH> please... 

When the mother has never explained the facts of life to her daughter,
how is the daughter to know what to say no to? Especially when the person
getting her into such a position is another adult...who she DOES know that
she is expected to respect and OBEY.

GH> Better 2 lives ruined by giving birth than by the guilt that would

Oh how absolutely loving of you.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Marty Leipzig
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:23:58
EID:9755 227c4ae0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
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ML> George won't talk to me.
ML> GOAT!
ML> I'm *so* depressed...


Yeah, I know. He expects US to relay your words to him so he can say
'aha! This is second hand information and how is that any different from
what I've been spewing?'

He's a twit. And possible Harpy bait but I won't promise that.

BTW. When do I get a decent picture of you to GOO for the page?


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Ken Young: Poster child
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:29:16
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PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
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DC> Don't ask me to correct it.  I'm still having problems getting 
DC> E-mail working right!  

Dan, get a Juno account. Even if you end up having to dial a toll-number,
these are flash sessions and even the largest packet I've gotten has taken
less than a minute to d/l (230 msg). And the Juno account itself is free.

Trust me, you need this.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Don Martin
|Sub:  Book
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:34:50
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DM> As I get it together, I shall post pieces of it here for
DM> comments, corrections, suggestions, additions, etc.

DM> Comments?

Will you need holographic permission or will a statement here do?


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  AHEM???
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:42:34
EID:ae2d 227c4d40
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GH> marry only  another JEW?   I was under the impression that it was a
GH> BLOOD   purity tactic.   You can't have it both ways,

It is a religious thing, George. However patriarchal the Jewish religion
may be, if your MOTHER was not a Jew, YOU are not a Jew. And is only
adhered to by the the super orthodox Hassidim today. (Of course, the
super Hassidim don't believe in shitting on the Sabbath, so we're talking
a whole 'nuther mind set, here)

And Catholics prohibit marriage outside of that religion. Is THAT a 
racial purity thing, too?

GH> JewBoy...either it is merely  a religious differentiation or it is an
^^^^^^
Bigot!

GH> Further, it MUS be allowed under the rules of this echo, so long as
the
GH> atheists, of whatever  ethnicity, are allowed to continue using

Of course it is allowed. Just don't expect not to be called the diseased
afterbirth of a drunken cluster fuck performed on a syphillitic camel in
return.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  How about 1-on-1?
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:49:20
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GH> infallibility  and literality of the COMPLETE Word Of God, unchanged
GH> since it was written.  These Christians accept wwithout question that

Oh, you are reading it in the original Hebrew and Aramaic?

Or did 'god' write it in English? And why was the Council of Nicea necessary
to decide which 'god written' books really belonged in the official bible?
And why are there at least 40 different ENGLISH versions...some of which
contradict the others very badly?

Unchanged, huh? God wrote it, huh?

Then why is the bible so much different today from one published 100 years
ago? And why ISN'T my Shakespeare changed by the same amount? Shakespeare
was only a man, after all.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  maxi-post
|Date: 28 Mar 97  09:54:20
EID:c05c 227c4ec0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333be510
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GH> Given the above disclaimer...which puts me on a par with each and all
GH> of you.. let the games begin...

Sweetie, you ain't on a par with Lennie Bernier or George Mooth. You'd
have to raise your IQ to be even that dumb. (They don't talk to anyone,
they just post canned tracts)

As for forwarding anything to the moderator about anything that has been
said to you...I can tell you what he'll say (just wait, you'll see for
yourself);

You came in here of your own free will. If you don't like what happens
or the responses you get, you can leave the same way. As long as you
insist on pushing your version of things at other people, prepare to take
the heat. NO ONE gets special consideration here for anything.


... Since you can't laugh at yourself, please allow the rest of us.
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|From: Dave Hamilton
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  AHEM???
|Date: 28 Mar 97  14:34:30
EID:d854 227c7440
REPLY: 1:104/447 2b899308
MSGID: 1:229/622 333bd7f9
CHRS: IBMPC 2
TID: FastEcho 1.45a 10440
About a message of George Harper to Lou Dripkin:

GH> [...] You can't have it both ways,
GH> JewBoy...either it is merely  a religious differentiation or it is an
GH> ethnicity issue.

GH> By the way...for all readers...the ETHNIC slur I used was intentional.


Oh, we were really bothered wondering whether it just slipped out
of your fetid mind or not. Who gives a shit? We know you're only
here to evangelize the loving word of Jesus.

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|From: Richard Smith
|To:   All
|Sub:  Something of intereste . . .
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:06:48
EID:1dc6 2279a8c0
MSGID: 1:203/9046.0 33bec025
GID GIGO+ sn 1 at gigo vsn 0.99.970109
The following letter was distributed by James Randi, and I
thought that some of the folks around here would find it of
interest, so I bumped it over here.  If you want to respond to Alan Hale,
the address given to do so is ahale@NMSU.Edu . . .

* Copied (from: NETMAIL) by Richard Smith using timEd 1.01.

[ Even though not dealing with skepticism, the following
letter from Alan Hale should be of interest to many readers of this mailing
list. Support of legitimate science is something that I'm sure we all wish
to encourage. JR ]

Greetings everyone -- yes, another one of those blanket
e-mails that I send out to folks from time to time. I don't
think I know all of you personally, but at the very least we may have mutual
acquaintances who suggested I include you in this mailing. To those of you
whom I don't know (as well as
those whom I do), please forgive my taking the liberty of
sending you a message like this.

The message which follows is an open letter to any and all
young scientists who, like me, are frustrated, angry, bitter, etc. about
the sorry state of science funding in our society today, and who have been
struggling just to get a decent
career started. Due to my current "15 minutes of fame" that I am receiving
as a result of Comet Hale-Bopp, I believe I have an opportunity to raise
some awareness of this issue, and
possibly to get things turned around at least a little bit.

Anyway, please take the time to read through this, and if you feel like
responding to it, please do so. Most importantly,
please pass this around to anyone and everyone you think might be interested
in responding; I'm trying to reach as large an audience as I can, and the
more responses I can get from those whose experiences have been like mine,
the better the chances I have of actually being able to accomplish something.

Thanks,

Alan

--------------------------------------------------------------- An open
letter to the scientists of my generation:

I am Alan Hale, the co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp which, as I'm sure
you're aware, is getting a tremendous amount of media attention at this
time. Like I'm sure is true for many of you, I was inspired by the scientific
discoveries and events taking place during my childhood to pursue a career
in science only to find, after completing the rigors of undergraduate and
graduate school, that the opportunities for us to have a
career in science are limited at best and are which I usually describe as
"abysmal." Based upon my own experiences, and
those of you with whom I have discussed this issue, my
personal feeling is that, unless there are some pretty drastic changes in
the way that our society approaches science and
treats those of us who have devoted our lives to making some of our own
contributions, there is no way that I can, with a clear conscience, encourage
present-day students to pursue a career in science. It really pains me a
great deal to say
something like that, but I feel so strongly about this that I have publicly
made this statement at almost every opportunity I have been given.

I am trying to use the media attention that is currently being focused upon
me to raise awareness of this state of affairs, and perhaps start to effect
those changes that will allow me to convey a more positive message to the
next generation. So far, I'm sensing a certain reluctance among the media
to discuss this issue, as they seem far more interested in items which I
consider to be irrelevant and unimportant. But I
intend to keep hammering away at this, and I'd like to believe that eventually
some are going to sit up and take notice. I am also attempting to schedule
meetings with some of our
government leaders, to see if I can at least get some
acknowledgement from Washington that this is a problem that
needs to be dealt with.

My reason for writing to you is to ask your help. I know that I'm not alone
in being frustrated about the current prospects for pursuing any kind of
decent career within science, and I'm quite sure that many of you have "horror
stories" about your searches for decent employment that are quite similar
to my own. I'd like to hear them. I'd especially like to hear from those
of you who are on your second or third or fourth
post-doc, or who have left the field as a result of the
employment situation, or who have experienced severe personal difficulties
(e.g., break-up of a marriage, etc.). I realize that some of these might
be painful to discuss, but I'd like to show that we are not a bunch of impersonal
statistics, but that we're human beings trying to make an honest living
and perhaps make a contribution or two to society while we're at it. Speaking
of statistics, though, if you received any
information about the numbers of applicants to some of the
positions you applied to -- which was often a 3-digit number in my case
-- I'd like to hear that, too.

Please e-mail your stories to me at ahale@nmsu.edu, with a
subject line of "horror stories" or something like that.
Please let me know if you would prefer to remain anonymous
when I share these stories with the press and the government. Also, please
pass this message on to any of your friends and colleagues who might be
interested in sharing their stories
with me, and keep in mind that I would like to receive stories from as many
scientific disciplines as possible. (Because of the amount of e-mail traffic
I'm receiving these days, along with everything else that's going on, I
probably won't be able to acknowledge each message individually.)

Thank you for your time, and I hope to hear from you. Perhaps, with the
opportunity we have before us right now, we have the chance to make a difference.

Sincerely,

Alan Hale

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|From: Karl Schneider
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 26 Mar 97  09:27:18
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This message was from RICHARD SMITH to KARL SCHNEIDER,
and was forwarded to you by KARL SCHNEIDER.
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* Original msg to: George Harper

RIP Verna Mae Russell 1911-96
George Harper said to Karl Schneider about Re: clones:

ha> on this planet?   Where does the spark of life for a
ha> cloned being,
KS> DNA, digestion and respiration.
gh> Okay...where is the starting point?

Which starting point?  You didn't quote enough of the
conversation to allow a person to understand your point of
reference.  BTW, where (precisely) IS the Garden of Eden?
With modern maps, etc., you should be able to give me an
accurate set of coordinates, and please back them up with
citations proving your point.

gh> Where did the VERY FIRST DNA string originate?

DNA string?  Is that like Silly String?  I know of no DNA
string.  Maybe you meant DNA _strand_.  If so, so me how the
VERY FIRST DNA _strand_ is carried down in all life today.
It should be easy for you to do, right?  BTW, please show us
exactly where, in the Garden of Eden, YHVH got the dust that
it allegedly used to create Adam.

gh> What is the Genesis of all life forms to ever
gh> have existed or that ever WILL exist?

I love this disingenuousness.  There's nothing like trying
to predispose a question towards the answer you want (which
is, btw, SHODDY reasoning) with just a capital letter.  
Firstly, show me how the very first life has anything to do
with ANY future life. Why should any of us work at a
connection for you when we don't know that there WILL be a
connection between the very first life, and some nebulous
future life, perhaps aeons away?  Your suppositions are very
weak here.

gh> Go back as many aeons as you wish, but isolate for me
gh> what happened to create the first atom in the universe,
gh> to use as  seed for the formation of all else.

Please, first, show me how there has to be a connection
between the first atom created, and all of life.  Take your
time, but I need this exactly.  Show every connection.

gh> Even
gh> scientists have to agree that it all started somewhere.

All WHAT had to start somewhere?  The universe?  How is the
universe connected to the formation of life?  And so what
about general concensus . . . what is your point?

gh> Ephemerists charting the course of stars to work up
gh> navigational data sets can trace the stars' movements
gh> backwards to a  point of origin, but they cannot
gh> pinpoint what started them in their  courses.

And, praytell, aside from Shakespeare's observation, how do
the stars affect our lives?

gh> But maybe you're more learned than these "hacks" who do
gh> nothing more than push buttons and manipulate numbers
gh> for a living.

LOL!  Georgie, you're precious!  Stars can be traced back
MATHEMATICALLY.  Please show me the mathematical equations
that will allow you to trace life back.  I'm sure REAL
mathematicians around here (there are several here) would be
real interested in this answer.  You might even be able to
get some help from John Brawley, though don't expect him to
tell you there was zero life here at one time.

KS> Bullshit.  Frankenstein made his creature with a
KS> transplanted brain, you moron.
gh> Very well made point...how does it feel to be bested
gh> by someone you name as intellectually inferior?

You concede the point yet you claim to have bested him?  Now
THAT'S chutzpah!  LOL . . .

gh> Want to play at semantics?

If that's all you know how to do, sure.

gh> I got VERY high marks in my courses in college,

And Adolph Hitler was quite a good artist.  Your point?

gh> but admittedly am a bit rusty...

I wouldn't have cast you for Nick Chopper's role.  I would
have cast you for the Scarecrow instead . . . or perhaps
more tellingly, as the lion . . .

gh> you MAY stand a chance...

That's like saying that he may die someday, considering who
his opponent is . . .

gh> if you can keep the outsiders from jumping in and
gh> confusing things.

Don't worry, we won't confuse him at all.  He can focus on
the subject at hand.  You, on the other hand, are probably a
goner, especially considering your dependency on urban myth,
the movies, and fairy tales to define popular culture for
you.

ha> research and experimentation center in the jungles of
ha> South America. The center was dedicated to cloning in an
ha> attempt to recreate Adolph Hitler.   No experiments have
ha> been successful, to this point.
KS> Another idiotic fundy urban myth.
gh> Dr. Mengele is a myth?

Where, precisely, did Karl say that any _person_ was a myth?
You stupid fundies can't even make a decent strawman.  He
DID say that the Boys From Brazil plotline stupidly believed
by YOU was an Urban Myth.  I've seen it discussed in the
Urban Myth echo, AAMOF, and he's right: it IS an Urban Myth.
Next thing you know, you're going to tell me that you
believe in Stepford, Pennsylvania . . . but then, you
fundies would rather believe fairy tales than reality any
day, right?

gh> Just like Jesus Christ (something Alan Hess claimed)???

Jesus Christ was a myth?  Thanx for the confirmation.  Who's
Alan Hess?  My Merriam-Webster, under Hess, only shows:

Dame Myra Hess (English pianist, 1890-1965)
Walther Richard Rudolph Hess (German Nazi Politician
1894-1987)
Victor Franz Hess (Austrian Physicist, 1883-1964)
Walter Rudolph Hess (Swiss Physiologist, 1881-1973)

But no Alan Hess. You'd think that if he was someone
important, they'd've had him in there, wouldn't you,
especially considering how obscure the people are that they
DO have in there!  BTW, there is no mention of a Dr. Mengele
either, so I went to four other sources: A Pocket History of
the United States by Nevins & Commager (ISBN 0-671-42697-4),
Michael Howard's War In European History (ISBN
0-19-289095-6), the Columbia History of the World by Garraty
-!-
þ OLX 2.2 þ "Dither", said Pooh, as his Parkinson's kicked in.

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|From: Karl Schneider
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 26 Mar 97  09:27:19
EID:d67a 227a4b60
PID: OLMS 2.53 [Evaluation] 342 days
MSGID: 1:170/551.0 1633d2f7
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RS> * Original msg to: George Harper

RS> RIP Verna Mae Russell 1911-96
RS> George Harper said to Karl Schneider about Re: clones:
RS> gh> Even
RS> gh> scientists have to agree that it all started somewhere.

RS> All WHAT had to start somewhere?  The universe?  How is the
RS> universe connected to the formation of life?  And so what
RS> about general concensus . . . what is your point?

Umph...this msg got addressed to me; I forwarded it to GH.

-!-
þ OLX 2.2 þ If a mirror reverses left and right, why not up and down?

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|From: Karl Schneider
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  Exemplifying examples 1/
|Date: 26 Mar 97  09:27:20
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RS> Ken Young said to Rod Swift about Exemplifying examples 1/:

RS> Certainly.  So why complain about homosexuals and abortion?
RS> If you don't want a homosexual, don't seek one out.  If you

RS> it that you claim that people digging in their backyards can
RS> hear sounds originating from Hell, when we've managed to
RS> drill over a mile into the Earth?  

Actually, I have personally assisted in drilling wells over 20,000
feet deep...

-!-
þ OLX 2.2 þ That light at the end of the tunnel is a train....

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|From: Karl Schneider
|To:   Fredric Rice
|Sub:  Factory Fundies
|Date: 27 Mar 97  08:32:13
EID:fcb6 227b4400
PID: OLMS 2.53 [Evaluation] 343 days
MSGID: 1:170/551.0 1635178c
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FR>sa> Is there something about factories that attracts fundies?

FR>Seriously I've noticed higher fundy counts on the assembly lines than
in the
FR>office cubicles.  It may be unrelated.  Perhaps working on the assembly
line
FR>allows people's minds to wander unproductively and they end up contriving
the
FR>elaborate fundy fantasies.

Which might help explain the significant percentage of products that
immediately burst into flame when plugged in.

-!-
þ OLX 2.2 þ Rush Limbaugh thinks he's a wit.  He's half right.

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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  Christanic Terrorists
|Date: 28 Mar 97  18:14:22
EID:4c54 227c91c0
MSGID: 1:229/622 333c0a7e
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CHRS: IBMPC 2
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-=> Richard complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to Harpies
<=-

RS> No.  I'm implying that the Harpies, if they can stomach it,
RS> may have a nice meal in you.  I have yet to find a woman who

Richard, please go to:
http://www.concentric.net/~Jbandsma/harpies.htm

Read the text. VERY carefully.

Then, remember to be wary of what you ask for.

... from the desk of Harpy Central.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   John Musselwhite
|Sub:  Dead god
|Date: 28 Mar 97  15:55:44
EID:d62c 227c7ee0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333c3a7e
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-=> John complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to DAVID <=-

JM> especially since tomorrow is Dead God On A Stick Day.

Is THAT why the fucking nasty little rugrats next door aren't in school?
(I can never bother with this spring holiday)

OH! It IS a holiday. And Leo had to work today. At double time and a half.
Or is that triple time for holidays? Can we get rid of the religinoids and
keep their holidays?


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 28 Mar 97  16:01:30
EID:84ba 227c8020
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-=> Karen complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to Ken <=-

KD> So you would execute a 12 year old who sought an abortion for a
KD> pregnancy caused by incest?

While patting the sperm donor on the back and congratulating him for
getting such a fine, tight, young piece.


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  Christanic Terrorists
|Date: 28 Mar 97  16:11:34
EID:4c54 227c8160
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333c3a80
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-=> Richard complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to George
<=-

RS> She answered you, didn't she?  That in and of itself shows
RS> that she's mastered reading absolute assholes.  Only foreign
RS> languages are more difficult . . .

I can do it in one of those, too. It just takes longer. 

gh> I am certain that any woman spontaneously aborting or
gh> miscarrying will seek medical assistance to prevent

RS> Nice police state you're setting up here.  Shouldn't you be
RS> handing out brown shirts . . . ?

He doesn't realize that some anti-choice groups are already laying plans
for 'when' abortion is illegal again? Or that most of the groups say that
every miscarriage will have to be investigated to make sure the woman did
NOTHING to induce it.

gh> sex, an unwanted pregnancy is an indication of
gh> incompetence on the part of the woman...

How long has parthenogensis been common in primates? Is that the reason
there are more women than men? Gee, last time I looked it took 2 to make
a baby. But, of course, Georgie-porgie is one of those who believe that
only the woman is responsible for reproduction. His sperm has NOTHING whatever
to do with it.

RS> Ah, nice little antiwomen stance here.  So she was just
RS> asking for it, eh?  She deserved to be raped?  It was
RS> somehow her fault?

No, you should be on the pill and carry condoms just in case you might be
raped. Then you can ask your rapist to stop beating the shit out of you
long enough to put on a condom and allow you to get some spermicidal jelly.
Riiiiiight!


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|From: Judith Bandsma
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  16:20:16
EID:7928 227c8280
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:229/622.0 333c3a81
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-=> Richard complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to George
<=-

RS> No, she doesn't.  Every few years this claim is made, and
RS> it's never substantiated.  If you can, do so Georgie.  If

Every few YEARS????? In this echo, it's about once every 6 weeks. With
the claimant saying 'didn't you know...they JUST found the ark'.


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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 28 Mar 97  13:59:43
EID:d625 227c6f60
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333c20f1
REPLY: 1:207/212 ffa2c42e
Karen Davis said "Accepting Reality" to Ken Wiens,
adding:

KW>    Yes it does INCLUDE this person also. The only grounds
KW>    I see for abortion are if it is necessary to save
KW>    the life of the mother by so doing.

KD> So you would execute a 12 year old who sought an
KD> abortion for a pregnancy caused by incest?

No, he would not. He has been very clear on this. He
wants the state to off the little slut _for_ him (and he
wonders why some here regard him as a disagreeable person).


Later, you say to Mr. Niceguy:

KW>    No problem. Another human being is prevented from having a
KW>    life because of the selfish, self-righteous attitudes of
KW>    those who choose to abort,i.e., prevent another human from
KW>    having a life.

KD> It's selfish to want to live? To have a real life as
KD> opposed to the destroyed shell of a life an unplanned
KD> pregnancy brings?

Wanna see _lots_ of unwanted children who were _not_
aborted? Go to your nearest penitentiary.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Doug Schwandt
|Sub:  ACLU News 01-30-97: C 2/2
|Date: 28 Mar 97  14:10:35
EID:c02b 227c7140
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333c20f2
REPLY: 1:283/120.0 219d763c
Doug Schwandt said "ACLU News 01-30-97: C 2/2" to Karen Davis,
adding:

>>> Continued from previous message
KD> KD> No, it does NOT mean that. Churches don't really
KD> KD> need a say in politics - their members can vote
KD> KD> their own consciences just fine. More than tha they
KD> KD> have no right to because they're given such special
KD> KD> rights otherwise.

KD> KY> WHat special rights? Others can have a say, why not
KD> KY> religious leaders?

KD> They're not taxed, among other things, while still
KD> receiving many government paid services. Firefighters
KD> will put out a fire in a church despite there having
KD> been no taxes paid towards that service by that
KD> building.

DS> But the MEMBERS of that church pay taxes for the fire
DS> protection and the other services that the community
DS> affords to its residents.

Right, and the taxes they pay are for the protection of
their homes and businesses, yet their churches get coverage
for free. Betcha that if a gaggle of WOAs decided to build a
meeting house in your town, the place would be classified as
a "private club" by your friendly local assessor and taxed.

DS> Conversely, if your house caught fire, would you expect
DS> the fire department to refuse to come extinguish the
DS> fire because you belong to the First Baptist Church?

Conversely to what? This is about as stupid a nonexample
as something Jelly might dream up. I would expect them to
put out a fire in my house because I am a tax-paying
resident within the community they serve. Whether I am a
Baptist, Jew, WOA, Satanist, Pagan, Catholic, or univerally
indifferent, that is their responsibility.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Doug Schwandt
|Sub:  ACLU News 01-30-97: C 1/2
|Date: 28 Mar 97  14:23:16
EID:c0db 227c72e0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333c20f3
REPLY: 1:283/120.0 219d763d
Doug Schwandt said "ACLU News 01-30-97: C 1/2" to Karen Davis,
adding:

KD> KY> I am very much for the Constitution, but that has nothing to do
with
KD> KY> "separation of church and state."  If it does, could you please
show
KD> KY> me where those words appear in it?

KD> Non establishment plus freedom of religion = separation
KD> of church and state. It's that simple. Within the
KD> lifetime of the authors the phrase was being used, so
KD> it is irrelevant that they did not happen to choose
KD> those words for the Constitution.

DS> Oh, I see... I guess that means that those words were
DS> not EXPLICITLY used and that we are all victims of
DS> INTERPRETATION? Relevance has nothing to do with it.
DS> The drafters of the Constitution did not come equipped
DS> with crystal balls so that they may have been able to
DS> see EXACTLY how their words would be perverted over the
DS> years.

The only crystal balls here are yours, Dougie Baby; pity
you appear to be trying to think with them. For some
background on what the framers had in mind with the First
Amendment, you might look at Virginia's religious freedom
statue drafted by Jefferson (and about which he was proud
enough to have the fact of his authorship inscribed on his
tomb, while his role in the Declaration of Independence is
undeclared there). Separation of church and state is so
explicit in that statute that spelling it out was not
considered necessary in the more generalized Constitution.

KD> KY> People are told they can't have nativity scenes on
KD> KY> govt. ownded property, can't have student led
KD> KY> prayers in schools, can't even have the ten
KD> KY> commandments in court rooms. Don't you see
KD> KY> religious freedom being violated here?

KD> No. I see government being prevented from encouraging religion.

DS> I see religious freedom being violated. If the student
DS> wants to pray, s/he should be free to.

Pay attention to what Jelly is saying, silly though it
often is: he is _not_ talking about a student praying in
school if s/he wants to: he is talking about students being
_led_ in prayers, whether or not they wish to be. Such led
prayer _is_ a violation of the religious freedom of the
students who do not wish to participate and who do not wish
to be ostracised, as well as a violation of the
establishment clause by being sanctioned by a government
agency.

KD> People don't need nativity scenes on
DS> government owned property. There's KD>likely a church right next door
DS> that would be very glad to have it. KD>Government property is for ALL
DS> citizens, not just Christians. To have a KD>nativity scene there would
DS> indicate that this was somehow the view of KD>that government agency.
DS> I really wonder how you'd feel if you didn't KD>belong to the majority
DS> religion, Ken.

DS> In a country where the majority supposedly rules, I see a gross
DS> inconsistency here.  If the Moslems wanted to erect a display for
DS> Ramadan or one of their other holy days, it's not likely that the
DS> Government would object.

The majority does rule, but it does not get to
tyrannize. In your Moslem hypothetical example, you left out
_where_ these folks might wish to erect their display. This
is crucial. If they want to put it up on private property or
in front of their mosque, who _could_ object? If they want
to put it up on the courthouse lawn, they can go fuck
themselves with my blessing first.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Don Martin
|To:   Doug Schwandt
|Sub:  A Toast to Dracula.
|Date: 28 Mar 97  14:37:51
EID:298b 227c74a0
PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
MSGID: 1:261/1000.0 333c20f4
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Doug Schwandt said "A Toast to Dracula." to Dan Ceppa,
adding:

DC> MG> Then why does the famous creationist Laurie Appleton say:

DC> LA> "Famous" eh??  My statement was, of course stated as a
DC> LA> QUESTION!

DC>The only unaswered question, Laurie, is if you are capable
DC>of thought.

DC>Per your answer, you are losing, big time.

DC>Now, do tell us about your trip to Mt St Helens with
DC>Harry Truman.

DS> WHAT?  You don't know about HARRY TRUMAN, the old guy that made
DS> NATIONAL HEADLINES when he refused to evacuate his home just before
DS> Mount St. Helens erupted?  There was even a song written in his honor!

DS> Now, the question is this:  did you KNOW the above information, or did
DS> you honestly (and mistakenly!!!) think that Laurie was actually
DS> tooling around with old "Give 'em hell Harry?"

If you are going to go away for a while and then come
back, you do _not_ get to bitch about things that have
transpired in your absence without looking even more
ignorant than you generally do when you are "right on top"
of the situation. It was Laurie himself that made that
identification.

Suits him, actually.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
(don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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|From: Marty Leipzig
|To:   Don Martin
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  15:35:00
EID:d01b 227c7c60
TID: InterEcho 1.19 00000000
MSGID: 1:106/4015.0 6cbb9642 
Don Martin, camping in a desert canyon in a psilomelane-to, said to Marty
Leipzig 

DM> Marty Leipzig said "Educational Experienc" to Judith Bandsma,
DM> adding:

JB> Hint for you...it hasn't.

GH> Perhaps YOU need to read up on recent (last 30 years) history?

JB> No, you need to talk to Marty Leipzig...and the Turkish authorities.
JB> No ark. A tribe of natives that are making a killing selling pieces
of
JB> it that they manufacture themselves. And some bandits who are making
a
JB> (literal) killing ransoming back the nuts who try looking for it.

JB> But no ark.

ML> George won't talk to me.

ML> GOAT!

ML> I'm *so* depressed...

DM> He's been asking after you, though. Only last night he
DM> was complaining that everybody here is sending him to Marty
DM> and he doesn't know why (though he _suspects_ that Marty
DM> might be another of those WOAs).

Yes, indeedy. Yet another WOA allied to lay waste to such
fundementia. Hopefully, I'll be able to participate more than
once a week for a while. (Damned work is really interfering
with my HolySmokianisms..)

DM> Good to see you back. How's your punctuation mark?

Sigmoid; as I told Sigmund.


... "Who is this `God' person anyway?" - Oolon Coluphid ___ Blue Wave/386
v2.30
# PDQWK 2.5 #40


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|From: Marty Leipzig
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 28 Mar 97  15:36:00
EID:10f4 227c7c80
TID: InterEcho 1.19 00000000
MSGID: 1:106/4015.0 6cbb9643 
George Harper, camping in a desert canyon in a psilomelane-to, said to Judith
Bandsma 

JB> No, you need to talk to Marty Leipzig...and the Turkish authorities.
JB> No ark. A tribe of natives that are making a killing selling pieces
of it
JB> that they manufacture themselves. And some bandits who are making a

JB> (literal) killing ransoming back the nuts who try looking for it.
JB> 
JB> But no ark.

GH> You're the second  person to refer me to Marty.   Perhaps one
GH> of you  can also explain why *I* should accept *his* account as
GH> evidence, since he  obviously is one of your like-thinkers.

Because, you goob, I'm a multi-degreed petroleum geologist
whose actually BEEN to the freaking place. Several times, in
fact.

GH> I doubt
GH> he would say anything that  would contradict YOUR supposed evidence,
GH> just as you fail to believe anything  a Christian witness would add
on
GH> MY behalf...it's called "stale mate"... 

No, it's called "you burying your head in the sand before the
WOA geologist hands it to you on a silver platter". Look, you
schmuck, I'm here and just champing to give you the thorough
evisceration you so richly deserve.

'Smatter, chuckles? Scared to run with the big dogs?

Gutless wonder.

... Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it: Creationist Concrete.
___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
# PDQWK 2.5 #40


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|From: Marty Leipzig
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENC
|Date: 28 Mar 97  15:37:00
EID:10f4 227c7ca0
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George Harper, camping in a desert canyon in a psilomelane-to, said to Judith
Bandsma 

JB>  GH> don't know what relevance that number has to my claim of
JB>  GH> infallibility of the Bible...care to show the link?   Or is that
JB> 
JB> Leviticus. Says grasshoppers have 4 legs, bats are birds and rabbits
chew
JB> their cud.
JB> 
JB> So, either somebody screwed up when they counted or grasshoppers EVOLVED
JB> 2 extra legs in less than 5000 years. And you can't say we don't know
JB> what grasshoppers were like then without admitting to the fact of
GH> evolution
JB> It just doesn't work.


GH> I just read the account you cited.  It is in the dietary laws  kosher  and what isn't>.   The account CLEARLY places grasshoppers in
GH> the category of  edible SMALL INSECTS.   This means it has to have at
GH> LEAST 6 legs...read it  again if you want to check my comprehension.

We did. You lack it totally.

GH> Rabbits DO chew a cud, by the  way...watch one, sometime.

Rabbits are diurnal coprovores; and are not ruminants (you
biological idiot).

GH> And because
GH> a bat has hollow bones, and wings, it is properly placed in the
GH> category of birds... 

So, by that idiocy; pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, elasmosaurs and
angler fish are birds.

You paleozoological idiot.

How many birds have fur? (Chiropterans are quite heavily furred
and are quite mammalian; your big book of fairy tales
notwithstanding.)

GH> I have not claimed evolution doesn't happen.   If you can prove that
I
GH> HAVE  said otherwise, bring on the evidence.   I *DO* deny that species
GH> Homo  Sapiens originated as a product of evolution.

You hubristic homocentric. Man [ol' _Homo sap._] is an animal;
and as much a product of organic evolution as any other Terran
organism. You Biblocentric nonsense changes nothing of the fact
of biology, zoology and anthropology.

GH> Any evidence to
GH> the contrary, presented since the postulation of this theory, has been
GH> proven scientifically to be inaccurate or blatantly counterfeit.

Since Richard Leakey doesn't post here, allow me to say "Fuck
you" in his behalf.

GH>  you say "Pilt-Down Man"?> 

Sure can. It's a classic case of church propagated fraud
ferreted out by the modes and methods of science.

... Creationist: Proof that evolution is a non-directed phenomenon. ___
Blue Wave/386 v2.30
# PDQWK 2.5 #40


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|From: Rick Mcfarlane
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Contradictions
|Date: 28 Mar 97 14:31:00
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-=> Quoting George Harper to Mark O'neill <=-

Good morning, George.

MO> If the bible is infallible why are there so many contradictions in it,
MO> dickhead.

GH> I'm glad I had the presence of mind to set this to adults only
GH> access.... kids hear enough garbage-mouthed profanity as it is.

It's really not a very polite echo, George.  You should have read a bit

before you jumped in and start posting.  It won't get any better, either.

Those who choose to greet you with vulgarity generally continue to use 
it as a tactic.

There are a few of us, however, who religiously eschew the trash talk.

GH> Suffice it to say:  When I was a child, I reasoned as a child
GH> now, being a man, I reason as a man

Could we examine some of that reasoning?

GH> All the contradictions you see are only in
GH> your imagination....point one out and see how
GH> many times it is shown how mistaken you are.

I imagine you will get a lot of responses to that one.  If they try to 
tell you that the Bible says Pi = 3.00, give me a yell .  

Fundamentalists have managed to find clever apologitics to cover most 
of the glaring contradictions in the Bible (like which was created 
first, man or the birds).  Not convincing to anyone else, but at least 
acceptible to themselves.  But there are lots of meaningless little 
contradictions in the Bible that cannot be fixed.  Please address this one

for me:

(From the RSV):

1 Kings 5:15 Solomon also had seventy thousand burden bearers and 
eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country, (16) besides 
Solomon's three thousand three hundred chief officers who were over the

work.

2 Chronicles 2:18 (RSV) Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear 
burdens, and eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three 
thousand six hundred as overseers to make the people work.

Check the context if you like.  It is perfectly clear that these two 
passages are describing exactly the same historical situation, and they

differ in a way that cannot be reconciled through clever apologetics.  Was

it 3300 or 3600?

It's a contradiction.  You can say it doesn't matter (and I'd agree).  You

can say it's irrelevant (and I'd say you were right).  But you can't say

(as you already have) that it is "only in my imagination". 

In fact, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles are full of such minor detail 
contradictions - exactly what you would expect from histories written by

different authors who occasionally referred to different sources.

Take care.

... Doubt is the key to knowledge.  -  Persian Proverb
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|From: Rick Mcfarlane
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Re: AHEM???
|Date: 28 Mar 97 15:22:00
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-=> Quoting George Harper to Lou Dripkin <=-

Good morning, George.

GH> BLOOD   purity tactic.   You can't have it both ways,
GH> JewBoy...either it is merely  a religious differentiation or it is an
...
GH> By the way...for all readers...the ETHNIC slur I used was intentional.

People who intentionally use racial slurs really don't have much right to

complain about vulgarity used by others.  To my mind, at least, you have

just committed a much worse foul than the most sewer-mouthed opponent you

have run into in this place.  

GH> It  is used as a means of demonstrating the validity of my point. 

You should try to find more palatable ways to illustrate the validity of

your point, then.  All this has done is bring discredit to your beliefs,

and remove any claim you had to the moral high ground over the vulgarity

spouters.

GH> Further, it MUS be allowed under the rules of this echo, so long as
the
GH> atheists, of whatever  ethnicity, are allowed to continue using
GH> religiously-insulting terms, 

I really doubt that you get to call the shots on what is allowed in here.

That's Styx's job, and he does it well. But, since he has made this a 
place where freedom of expression is the rule, I have have little doubt

that he will allow you the freedom to discredit yourself if you so choose.

He gives the vulgar the freedom to expose their vulgarity, the ignorant

the freedom to expose their ignorance, and the foolish the freedom to 
expose their foolishness.

Take care.  (And I REALLY mean that!)

... Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.  -  Byron

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|From: Rick Mcfarlane
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  How about 1-on-1?
|Date: 28 Mar 97 13:59:00
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-=> Quoting George Harper to David Rice <=-

Good morning, George.

You "laid down the law" as follows:

GH> Do NOT resort  to obscenities, vulgarity, or defamation of my 
GH> family members.  
GH> If you accept these ground rules we can begin... 

GH> NOTE that my ground rules don't prohibit me from defaming you, your
GH> mother, o anyone else I choose to target...but I am above such low
GH> tactics, so I don't  need to be told to avoid those things 

And then in the  very same note you said the following:

GH> but so can anyone CLAIM to be intelligent...such as you do.  

GH> How about turning on your spell-checker, so you can hide your lack of

GH> education. 

GH> ... you are losing to an idiot, right?  
GH> hehehehe  

You are a troll, right?  No one with the brains to use a computer could

accidentally make themselves look so hypocritical.

Take care.

... Integrity has no need of rules.  -  Albert Camus
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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Around the World in.. 2/
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:35:31
EID:5c7f 227c5460
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On (26 Mar 97) Dan Ceppa wrote to Jim Staal...

-> On 23 Mar 97  06:37:32, Jim Staal got back to Christopher Hughes

CH> status, age, religion, sex, race, ethnicity, and nation of origin, but
CH> it does not have any law preventing being fired on grounds of sexual
CH> orientation.

JS> I am covered by those same laws. Why should you think that you
JS> need/deserve special treatment over and above what I have?

DC> Why do you think (oxymoron when referring to you) that he
DC> deserves less rights that you enjoy?

Absolutely not.

... For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,they are the sons of God(Rom
8:14)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Fundy Frolics 1/3
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:35:55
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On (26 Mar 97) Dan Ceppa wrote to Jim Staal...

-> On 23 Mar 97  07:32:26, Jim Staal got back to Karen Davis

KD> Why does it affect all humans?

JS> The Bible says the entire creation suffers from the effects of sin due
JS> to Adam's bite of the forbidden fruit.

DC> The bible also says that Pi=3.0

Hmmm...don't recall seeing Pi in the Bible anywhere.

... A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. (Gal 5:9)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Literally Seaking
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:36:43
EID:cd23 227c5480
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On (26 Mar 97) Dan Ceppa wrote to Jim Staal...

-> On 23 Mar 97  06:27:49, Jim Staal got back to ROBERT CURRY

JS> nah. He is always perfect and I am always inferior.

DC> That goes without saying, Bozo.

I'm glad we agree on both points.

... I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all. (1 Cor 14:18)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   DAVID RICE
|Sub:  Literally Seaking
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:37:57
EID:9094 227c54a0
MSGID: 1:228/45.5 17414acc
On (26 Mar 97) DAVID RICE wrote to JIM STAAL...

-=> Quoting Jim Staal <=-

JS> It is natural for the unenlightened to not
JS> want to be in church. But once there, changes
JS> can take place.

DR> It has been my observation that the enlightened,
DR> as a whole, do not go to church as much as the
DR> unenlightened.

I was referring to 'spiritual enlightenment'.

DR> But this DOES NOT say, nor am I implying, nor do I
DR> believe, nor do I think, that religious people are
DR> not educated or otherwise enlightened. Off the top
DR> of my head I can think of many very religious people
DR> who were brilliant, even polymathic.

Correct.

DR> It's just that
DR> as a whole, education decreases theism.

it is my opinion, David, that education increases pride and and self
relieance, and pride insulates against God.

DR> Which is an excellent argument for systemic, affordable
DR> education. Personally, I would hate to see religion
DR> somehow (magically, i.e. a miracle) vanish utterly from
DR> the face of the planet: such a tragic LOSS to humanity
DR> that would be! Religion has enriched so many of our
DR> greatest fellow human beings.

This is also true.

DR> Rather, I would like to
DR> see the degree of religosity decreased over-all so that
DR> it no longer threatens, as it does today, the very
DR> existance of our species.

You do not consider the jpossibility that homosexuality (not much
procreation going on in that state) and abortion could jpossibly be a
threat to the very existance of ourj species?

DR> There should be a happy
DR> median where religious expression is encouraged to
DR> flourish, but not at the expense of society.

I would rather that it enhanced society.

... He that has ears to hear, let him hear. (Matt 11:15)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   DAVID RICE
|Sub:  Literally Seaking
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:42:52
EID:9094 227c5540
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On (26 Mar 97) DAVID RICE wrote to JIM STAAL...

-=> Quoting Jim Staal <=-

>DR> Why would you claim to worship a god that you admit to being
>DR> your ethical and moral inferior?

JS> I make no such admission.

DR> You admitted that you would not torture a soul for ever and
DR> ever, while saying that your god would / will. I assumed that
DR> the reason for your refusal was an ethical and moral one.

DR> Why would you not torture a soul in hell forever?

I don't see it as an ethical or jmoral problem. It would just hurt me
too much to hurt someone else. (I mean, I haven't been in a fight since
high school . Even when called out or severely
provoked, I just walk away)

DR> Why would your god want to torture a soul in Hell forever?
DR> (Remember, your occultism includes your god having absolute
DR> power.)

God doesn't 'want' to. The Bible indicates otherwise: (2 Pet 3:9 NIV)
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand
slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but
everyone to come to repentance.

DR> How can you justify to yourself the unethical, immoral
DR> (indeed: EVIL) behavior of your god, when you yourself
DR> would not behave that unethical and immoral?

i don't see it as evil. I see it as His justice. he says 'if you do this
or this, and do not repent of it and accept my jsalvation, this is the
'reward'. If He didn't carry through, He would be 'wishy-washy' and not
worthy of the respect He commands.

... Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. (Rom 12:21)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   DAVID RICE
|Sub:  Earthly Masters
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:49:45
EID:6bf5 227c5620
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On (26 Mar 97) DAVID RICE wrote to JIM STAAL...

-=> Quoting Jim Staal to Fredric Rice

>FR> Or are you happy to shit your hatred down your own gullet
>FR> and demand it's okay because your masters demand it?

DR> I wish Fredric had been on my debating team in college. :-)

Such rhetoric is legitimate debate?

JS> I have no earthly masters.

DR> Actually, you do. You follow the dicta of long-dead, ignorant
DR> savages. You believe their lies because they comfort you.

We disagree. the comfort comes from within.


... Absent in body, but present in spirit. - 1 Corinthians 5:3

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Lynda Bustilloz
|Sub:  Baby burning in Hell
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:50:37
EID:fc7f 227c5640
MSGID: 1:228/45.5 24f8c97f
On (22 Mar 97) Lynda Bustilloz wrote to JIM STAAL...

LB> Dan and Jim were killing time yakking about Baby burning in Hell:


KD> I found *birth* to be disgusting. Shall I outlaw that?

JS> The pro-choicers have already tried and suceeded in doing that.

DC> And the name of that law is?

JS> It's called 'roe v wade'.

LB> How does Roe v Wade outlaw birth?

No, it outlaws God-given life.

... For he that is dead is freed from sin. (Rom 6:7)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Judith Bandsma
|Sub:  You lose.
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:51:19
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On (26 Mar 97) Judith Bandsma wrote to Jim Staal...

-=> Jim complained of warm pie, cold coffee, and no paper to Judith <=-

JS> Reason? Wilbur has never been to a 'clinic' and has a regular OBGYN.
JS> These are available, you know. It is called 'preventive maintenance'
JS> and should be done on a regular basis after a certain age.

JB> You either have to have the money or the insurance for a private
JB> doctor. Our insurance doesn't cover these kinds of tests. I was using
JB> the clinic in order to get it done for $85 instead of $350.

Fortunately, throughout our employed careers, we have always had some
sort of insurance, some better, some worse. I have never had dental,
however, and yet get the stuff done that needs to be done and make
regular payments on the bill if necessary. But I understand what you are
saying.

... Now are they many members, yet one body. - 1 Cor. 12:20

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Martin Goldberg
|Sub:  Staal stinks a little lo
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:55:54
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On (27 Mar 97) Martin Goldberg wrote to Jim Staal...

MG>  RS>> Please note that the Hawaiian Supreme Court has found that
MG>  RS>> sexual orientation has no bearing or relationship to the
MG>  RS>> fitness of any parent to raise a child whatsoever.

JS> I believe the HSC has their heads in their heinies.

MG> What is the direct relationship between homosexual orientation and
MG> inability to raise children?

Two things:
a. there is an inherent inablility to ntaurally produce children
in the first place, and
b. there is no chance for the child in a day to day familial
setting to be exposed to the 'norm' of society, i.e. a father
_and_ a mother.

... Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. (Col 4:2)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Ha!
|Date: 28 Mar 97  10:59:23
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On (26 Mar 97) Dan Ceppa wrote to Jim Staal...

-> On 25 Mar 97  07:18:10, Jim Staal got back to Rod Swift

JS> See? Where did I say 'gooks'? A _big_ difference.

JS> Yes, I used the word 'gook', but not 'as a synonym for the languages
and
JS> peoples of Vietnam.'

JS> You, sir, are a liar, even as your man Satan is the father of lies.
I
JS> denied using 'gooks'. Read and learn.

DC> You're a fucking piece of shit, Staal.  You are willing to
DC> quibble over a 's' when your short little dick was caught in
DC> the wringer.

DC> What you wrote was archived.

Yes and continually miss quoted and misapplied.

... For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Rom 3:23)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Ha!
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:00:04
EID:f43d 227c5800
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On (26 Mar 97) Dan Ceppa wrote to Jim Staal...

-> On 25 Mar 97  08:39:46, Jim Staal got back to Rod Swift

RS> used "gook".  You are right, you never used it for the people's

RS> You did, however, use the word for the languages of Vietnam.  You
RS> did use it as a racial slur.  :)

JS> Nah. No slur. Merely a well accepted slang word, not intended to
JS> offend.

DC> May I carbon your letter to Mr Loo and see what he has to
DC> say about your "non-offense", Crate?

You can carbon _date_ my letter for all I care. Then tell Mister Loo to
get his butt back to Seoul and see for himself what is going on.

... For the son of man is come to save that which was lost. (Matt 18:11)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Irc Log Fun!
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:03:59
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On (27 Mar 97) Dan Ceppa wrote to Jim Staal...

JS>  RS> Then again, why haven't you sacrificed your first born male child
JS>  RS> to God?

JS>  Where did Christ (or any OT command) command it?

DC> You really are an idiot, Staal.  It's in the bible that
DC> you worship and quoted above, you moron.

Yopu must have missed my response to Mister Swift. In any event, if have
this alleged evidence, then why don't you just trot it out here for me
once?

... Judge not according to appearance. - John 7:24

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Literally Seaking
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:05:11
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On (27 Mar 97) Dan Ceppa wrote to Jim Staal...

DC> Go watch the comet and sasy "Aaahhh" an drown in the rain
DC> like the turkey that you are.

Sorry. But why don't you go out there and maybe the Greys will slow
their spaceshiop down and pick you up. (another example fo the 'better
educated' at work)

... He that has ears to hear, let him hear. (Matt 11:15)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  Cheese Whiz
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:08:52
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On (24 Mar 97) Karen Davis wrote to Jim Staal...

KD> On (23 Mar 97) Jim Staal wrote to Karen Davis...

JS> She wouldn't wait till after the 5th month. She is already _very_
JS> pregnant. Your reason doesn't wash.

KD> Which is why the abortions are not because she doesn't want to be
KD> pregnant. They are because there is a danger to her medically.

man, you just jlove to talk out of both sides, don't you? you had just
said it was because they didn't want to be pregnant.

KD> not because they don't want the child. Primarily, at least. If the
KD> baby is
KD> coming out, you're not pregnant any more, no need to worry if the baby
KD> comes out alive or dead.

JS>  Exactly my point. Why kill the baby then?

KD> BECAUSE THERE IS A DANGER TO HER, AND THE BABY IS LIKELY ALREADY
KD> DYING.

Huh!? The baby is already born except for the head. What in the world
are yo talking about? Are you trying to deny the procedure yet?

JS> Ron Fitzsimmons may or may not be a doctor either, but he said
JS> 3000-4000 viable fetuses with healthy mothers.

KD> Lies. Figure out why he said that and you'll find some illegal act
KD> performed by anti abortion activists. No documentation.

No, you will find the man probably got a conscience and no longer could
lie for the Clinton liberals.

... All things work together for good to them who love God. - Rom. 8:28

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  You lose.
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:11:42
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On (24 Mar 97) Karen Davis wrote to Jim Staal...

KD> On (23 Mar 97) Jim Staal wrote to Karen Davis...

JS>  And the end result proved that abortion wasn't necessary. Lynda is
JS>  fine, both children are fine. I didn't say it was easy, but then, if
JS> it  were easy, anybody could have done it. I give Lynda a lot of
JS> credit.
JS>  Just one of the reasons I call her my friend. I have a lot of respect
JS>  for her.

KD> Yes, Lynda is very comfortable with the choices she made. I respect
KD> her for her choices. But you can't say "everything's fine." You don't
KD> know
KD> what she went through during and after the pregnancies.

I'm sure it was difficult, but everything is fine now.

KD> What if the child that resulted from rape had been male and the
KD> picture of his father, and not a wonderful little girl who has nothing
KD> of her
KD> father in her?

Then she would have had a wonderful little boy. I'm sure the father's
environment and upbringing had more to do with what he became in
adulthood than just his biological heritage.

KD> What if Lynda had died in the last pregnancy?

She wouldn't be here, and we would miss a lot.

KD> These decisions are a case by case issue. Each individual must decide
KD> for herself, based on her support system, resources, and the best
KD> information available. That's why abortion has to be legal as it is
KD> now.

We disagree.

... Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good. (1 The 5:21)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  Baby burning in Hell
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:14:30
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On (24 Mar 97) Karen Davis wrote to Jim Staal...

KD> On (23 Mar 97) Jim Staal wrote to Karen Davis...

JS> What about viable fetuses? All of the above aside, my feelings on the
JS> matter can be best expressed by quesiton and answer one of the
JS> Heidelberg Catechism:

KD> And you have yet to demonstrate the abortion of any viable fetuses in
KD> any procedure without some medical risk factor.

Ask Ron Fitzsimmons, although you don't have to. He made it very much a
part of the public record.

JS> Q - What is your only comfort in life and death?

JS> A- That I, with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own,
JS> but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who with His precious
JS> blood

KD> This is not anywhere close to my belief, Jim, so there is no way this
KD> is going to persuade me. My body is MINE, not Jesus', and any embryo
KD> that
KD> develops in me [though you'd be well warned to bring Frankincense etc.
KD> to my bedside were I to be pregnant as it isn't possible] is MINE, not
KD> Jesus'.

Again, we disagree.

KD> Feel free to use such beliefs for your own decisions and with those
KD> who voluntarily listen to your counsel. But they don't wash for me and
KD> they don't wash for public policy in the United States.

Shame.

... I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. (1 Cor 10:20)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  Fundy Frolics 1/3
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:15:40
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On (24 Mar 97) Karen Davis wrote to Jim Staal...

KD> On (23 Mar 97) Jim Staal wrote to Karen Davis...

JS> The Bible says the entire creation suffers from the effects of sin due
JS> to Adam's bite of the forbidden fruit.

KD> Why?

Because it was no longer perfecrt and free from sin.


... He that has ears to hear, let him hear. (Matt 11:15)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  FUNDY FROLICS 1/3
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:16:09
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On (24 Mar 97) Karen Davis wrote to Jim Staal...

KD> On (23 Mar 97) Jim Staal wrote to Karen Davis...

JS>  Oh my. SAve the poor little animals...but kill the helpless unborn.
JS> You  tree huggers make me puke!

KD> Animals need our help. Embryos don't. If the mother of the embryo
KD> wishes to protect it, she will.

JS> It is not up to the will of the mother. My statement stands.

KD> Yes it is, under US public policy. You WANT to destroy her will so
KD> YOUR desire for more and more babies is satisfied.

I have no desire for more babies. Three for me was enough. I now have
grandbabies and that more than satifies any desire I may have had for
more babies.

... For the earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof. (1 Cor 10:26)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  How About 1-On-1?
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:17:37
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On (27 Mar 97) George Harper wrote to Jim Staal...

JS>    Obviously not! Christians are supposed to be perfect! Don't you know
JS>    that by now? (sarcasm mode on)

GH> I like to think that we ARE "perfect"...through the Blood Of Christ.

Amen. Unfortunately, however, that doesn't always reflect upon our
actions. (speaking for myself here)

GH> I notice that you get your share of flaming torches and, probably,
GH> burnt crosses...goes with the territory...

Oh, yeah. It has gotten to be the common thing here for me to be
_always_ wrong, stupid, ignorant, etc. It is nice to know that the
important One who sees this stuff know better.

GH> My congregation has a young pastor...this is his second pulpit, but
he
GH> left the first one after four months to come to our church...who is
GH> interested in seeing what sort of things "the opposition" is saying
in
GH> a forum like this one...I am going to start selecting an occasional
GH> sample from the very few rational posts in this echo and printing them
GH> out for him...

It would be nice, if he has a computer, to join us here from time to
time.

GH> Keep the Faith...and a very Blessed and Happy Easter to you and
GH> yours...

Thank you, and I intend to (with more grace) do so and the same to you.


... One Lord, one faith, one baptism. (Eph 4:5)

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|From: Jim Staal
|To:   DAVID RICE
|Sub:  Misunderstanding?
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:23:52
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On (26 Mar 97) DAVID RICE wrote to FREDRIC RICE...

DR> I do not see where Roger is coming from. Concealing ones'
DR> illness is one thing; not telling a lover one has NIV is
DR> another.

In Michigan it is a crime punishable by 2 years imprisonment. Not
enough in my estimation, for knowingly prounouncing a death sentence on
another unsuspecting human being.


... If any man love God, the same is known of him.  (1 Cor 8:3)

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|From: Ed Mills
|To:   ALL
|Sub:  spacefundy
|Date: 28 Mar 97  00:20:13
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Does anyone know a fundy named "rocket77" who posts spam from a
fictitious e-mail address (rocket77@one.net)? I got a religious
solicitation in private fido netmail via a gateway somewhere. My
response was bounced, of course.

The only thing I've sent out (of a secular nature) was an e-mail
flame directed at the author of christiangallery.com. I mentioned
HS, but I didn't give my fido address. I wonder why the person
didn't write me at the e-mail address I *did* give: edmilz@juno.com.

Are there some other fundy mailing lists on some other net somewhere
that gets crossed up with this one?

Strange.

edweird



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|From: Marilyn Burge
|To:   ROBERT CURRY
|Sub:  another for the FAQ
|Date: 28 Mar 97  07:32:33
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On (22 Mar 97) ROBERT CURRY babbled to KEN YOUNG...

KY> Will there come a time when "my work will be done," here?
KY> Perhaps, but that will only occur when this echo has completely
KY> changed.

RC> LOL! This one needs to be properly archived.

Oh gawd!  I think I swallowed by upper plate!  I'm going
to have to quit bypassing his messages that aren't addressed
directly to me, if he keeps posting shit like THIS!


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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 28 Mar 97  11:53:38
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27 Mar 97 22:29, quoting George Harper to J.J. Hitt:


GH>    This is sound advice...how come it only applies to claims made by
GH> Christians?   I don't see ANY substantiation offered for claims that
GH> the God I follow is a myth,

Gawd.....you're clueless, aren't you?  Myth is the DEFAULT state for gods,
oh benighted one.

GH> or that homosexuality is more 
GH> than a choice of lifestyles, etc...

Wrong again, Georgie boy.  It is now the medical and psychiatric concensus
that sexual preference is not a choice.  Now, tell me when you choose to
be heterosexual.


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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   Don Martin
|Sub:  Book
|Date: 28 Mar 97  18:07:38
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28 Mar 97 08:09, quoting Don Martin to Ed Mills:


DM>     You do good stuff, Mills, but you simply haven't rolled
DM> around here long enough to have gathered enough floppy disks
DM> filled with moss. This is a great idea, though. I had
DM> already thought of asking for "favorites" from everyone's
DM> archives, but "observations" (this medium does not do
DM> interviews reliably) from various participants, written
DM> expressly for inclusion in the book, might make an excellent
DM> chapter, or headnotes to the various chapters, or both. I
DM> welcome all such material, either here or by email.

I've got a couple thousand messages, most archived in 1993 while
I was on disability.



DM> o Fundy Farewells:
DM>         Sheneisms. Pray for you. Pitchforks.
DM> -+--+--+---

DM>     I welcome suggestions. Warmly.

Kill yourself with a pitchfork.  There.

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  FREEDOM OF CHOICE
|Date: 28 Mar 97  19:49:15
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28 Mar 97 06:52, quoting George Harper to Judith Bandsma:


GH> Yes, I said the Bible is infallible, ergo inerrant.

Do you base this on actual reading of your bible or a PRECONCEIVED
notion that requires your bible to be inerrant?

GH> YES! God IS the
GH> Creator of All Things.

Do you base this on evidence or a requirement of your religious belief?

GH> Yes, God is the Author of ALL life!  Yes,
GH> God
GH> even created, via the heterosexual coupling of various pairs, even the
GH> persons who subsequently CHOSE to follow a homosexual life-style.
GH> Ergo, you are TECHNICALLY correct...God DID create the persons who
GH> became homosexual.

What qualifies you to know more about sexual choice that those experts
who have spent their lives studying it?

GH> Don't celebrate too soon...read on!

GH> You merely scored a minor point!  Homosexuality IS - and always will
GH> remain - nothing more, nor less, than a freely-made lifestyle choice.

What medical and psychiatric evidence do you base this conclusion on?

GH> God created YOU female  use
GH> in this echo> human being....He made Don Martin  a
GH> MALE...that's the set... Male and Female...no inbetweens, no
GH> neutrals...

Why did your god create humans with ambigious gentitalia?

GH> While there ARE milieu in which persons are raised that MAY
GH> pre-dispose them to selecting a same-gender sexual orientation, the
GH> final decision to enter and live that lifestyle is THEIR FREE WILL
GH> CHOICE, freely made.

Again, your medical evidence for this conclusion is?  If you have no
peer-reviewed medical evidence, are you ready to admit that your conclusion
is based solely on religious beliefs?  Yes or no, please.


GH> For the uninformed:  milieu   a total
GH> environment, encompassing all things that have impact on any
GH> designated subject.... (This is the thumbnail definition from my Psych
GH> 101 text, c1975)

I don't think that anyone in here is impressed with your academics,
Georgie.

GH> Now...AGAIN...I challenge you to prove that Homosexuality is the
GH> result of any genetic structure or other physical causal factors...If
GH> your evidence is properly stated, and includes *unbiased* MEDICALLY
GH> provable statements, I will admit defeat,

You are already defeated.  Read the medical consensus and weep, little
fundie.

GH> and apologize to all
GH> homosexually-oriented persons for having thought they had a choice.

Get out your kneepads already.

GH> BTW: I decide biases in this matter, so include the names of your
GH> sources, and location, so that I can, if I want, verify their lack of
GH> bias.

See the next message.

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Homosexuality
|Date: 28 Mar 97  19:58:08
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PID: GED3 2.51.a901 124LM3
Answers to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation
and Homosexuality



What is sexual orientation?

Sexual orientation is one of the four components of sexuality and is distinguished
by an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or
affectionate attraction to individuals of a particular gender. The three
other components of sexuality are biological sex, gender
identity (the psychological sense of being male or female) and social sex
role (adherence to cultural norms for feminine and
masculine behavior). Three sexual orientations are commonly recognized:
homosexual, attraction to individuals of one's own
gender; heterosexual, attraction to individuals of the other gender; or
bisexual, attractions to members of either gender. Persons
with a homosexual orientation are sometimes referred to as gay (both men
and women) or as lesbian (women only).

Sexual orientation is different from sexual behavior because it refers to
feelings and self-concept. Persons may or may not
express their sexual orientation in their behaviors.

What causes a person to have a particular sexual orientation?

How a particular sexual orientation develops in any individual is not well
understood by scientists. Various theories have
proposed differing sources for sexual orientation, including genetic or
inborn hormonal factors and life experiences during early
childhood. However, many scientists share the view that sexual orientation
is shaped for most people at an early age through
complex interactions of biological, psychological and social factors.

Is sexual orientation a choice?

No. Sexual orientation emerges for most people in early adolescence without
any prior sexual experience. And some people
report trying very hard over many years to change their sexual orientation
from homosexual to heterosexual with no success.
For these reasons, psychologists do not consider sexual orientation for
most people to be a conscious choice that can be
voluntarily changed.

Is homosexuality a mental illness or emotional problem?

No. Psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals agree
that homosexuality is not an illness, mental disorder
or emotional problem. Much objective scientific research over the past 35
years shows us that homosexual orientation, in and
of itself, is not associated with emotional of social problems.

Homosexuality was thought to be a mental illness in the past because mental
health professionals and society had biased
information about homosexuality since most studies only involved lesbians
and gay men in therapy, the idea that homosexuality
was a mental illness was found to be untrue.

In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association confirmed the importance of
the new research by removing the term
"homosexuality" from the official manual that list all mental and emotional
disorders. In 1975 the American Psychological
Association passed a resolution supporting this action. Both associations
urge all mental health professionals to help dispel the
stigma of mental illness that some people still associate with homosexual
orientation. Since original declassification of
homosexuality as a mental disorder, this decision has subsequently been
reaffirmed by additional research findings and both
associations.

Can lesbians and gay men be good parents?

Yes. Studies comparing groups of children raised by homosexual parents find
no developmental differences between the two
groups of children in their intelligence, psychological adjustment, social
adjustment, popularity with friends, development of
social sex role identity or development of sexual orientation.

Another stereotype about homosexuality is the mistaken belief that gay men
have more of a tendency than heterosexual men to
sexually molest children. There is no evidence indicating that homosexuals
are more likely than heterosexuals to molest children.

Why do some gay men and lesbians tell people about their sexual orientation?

Because sharing that aspect of themselves with others is important to their
mental health. In fact, the process of identity
development for lesbians and gay men, usually called "coming out", has been
found to be strongly related to psychological
adjustment - the more positive the gay male or lesbian identity, the better
one's mental health and the higher one's self-esteem.

Why is the "coming out" process difficult for some gays and lesbians?

Because of false stereotypes and unwarranted prejudice towards them, the
process of "coming out" for lesbians and gay men
can be a very challenging process which may cause emotional pain. Lesbian
and gay people often feel "different" and alone
when they first become aware of same-sex attractions. They may also fear
being rejected by family, friends, co-workers and
religious institutions if they do "come out".

In addition, homosexuals are frequently the targets of discrimination and
violence. This threat of violence and discrimination is
an obstacle to lesbian and gay people's development. In a 1989 national
survey, 5% of the gay men and 10% of the lesbians
reported physical abuse or assault related to being lesbian or gay in the
last year; 47% reported some form of discrimination
over their lifetime. Other research has shown similarly high rates of discrimination
or violence.

What can be done to help lesbians and gay men overcome prejudice and discrimination
against
them?

The people who have the most positive attitudes toward gay men and lesbians
are those who say they know one or more gay
person well. For this reason, psychologists believe negative attitudes toward
gays as a group are prejudices that are not
grounded in actual experience with lesbians or gay men but on stereotypes
and prejudice.

Furthermore, protection against violence and discrimination are very important,
just as they are for other minority groups. Some
states include violence against an individual on the basis of her or his
sexual orientation as a "hate crime" and eight U.S. states
have laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Homosexuality
|Date: 28 Mar 97  19:59:08
EID:640b 227c9f60
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PID: GED3 2.51.a901 124LM3
Answers to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation
and Homosexuality

(continued)

Can therapy change sexual orientation?

No. Even though homosexual orientation is not a mental illness and there
is no scientific reason to attempt conversion of
lesbians or gays to heterosexual orientation, some individuals may seek
to change their own sexual orientation of that of another
individual (for example, parents seeking therapy for their child). Some
therapists who undertake this kind of therapy report that
they have changed their client's sexual orientation (from homosexual to
heterosexual) in treatment. Close scrutiny of their
reports indicates several factors that cast doubt: many of the claims come
from organizations with an ideological perspective on
sexual orientation, rather than from mental health researchers; the treatments
and their outcomes are poorly documented; and
the length of time that clients are followed up after the treatment is too
short.

In 1990, the American Psychological Association stated that scientific evidence
does not show that conversion therapy works
and that it can do more harm that good. Changing one's sexual orientation
is not simply a matter of changing one's sexual
behavior. It would require altering one's emotional, romantic and sexual
feelings and restructuring one's self-concept and social
identity. Although some mental health providers do attempt sexual orientation
conversion, others question the ethics of trying to
alter through therapy a trait that is not a disorder and that is extremely
important to an individual's identity.

Not all gays and lesbians who seek therapy want to change their sexual orientation.
Gays and lesbians may seek counseling for
any of the same reasons as anyone else. In addition, they may seed psychological
help to "come out" or to deal with prejudice,
discrimination and violence.

Why is it important for society to be better educated about homosexuality?

Educating all people about sexual orientation and homosexuality is likely
to diminish anti-gay prejudice. Accurate information
about homosexuality is especially important to young people struggling with
their own sexual identity. Fears that access to such
information will affect one's sexual orientation are not valid.

Where can I find more information about homosexuality?

The publications and organizations listed below can all provide you with
further information.

Garnets, L.D., et. al, "Issues in Psychotherapy With Lesbians and Gay Men,"
American Psychologist, Vol. 46, No.9, pp
964-972.

Goodchilds, J.D., Psychological Perspectives on Human Diversity in America,
American Psychological Association,
Washington, D.C., 1993

Garnets, L.D. and Kimmel, D.C., Psychological Perspectives on Lesbians &
Gay Male Experiences, Columbia University
Press, NY, 1993.

Gonsiorek, J.C., and Weinrich, J.D., Homosexuality: Research Implications
For Public Policy, Sage Publications, CA, 1991.

Herek, G.M., and Berrill, K.T., Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol.
5, No.3.

Organizations:
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 1734 14th Street, NW Washington, D.C.
20009 (202) 332-6483

National Institute of Mental Health 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 7C02 Rockville,
MD 20857 (301) 443-4513

Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays 1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 638-4200

Sex Information and Education Counsel of the United States 130 W. 42nd Street,
Suite 2500 New York, NY 10036


The American Psychological Association (APA) located in Washington, D.C.,
is the largest scientific and professional
organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's
largest association of psychologists.
APA's membership includes more than 132,000 practitioners, researchers,
educators, consultants and students.
Through its divisions in 49 subfields of psychology and affiliations with
58 state and territorial and Canadian
provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as
a profession and as a means of promoting
human welfare.


American Psychological Association
Office of Public Affairs
750 First St., N.E.
Washington, DC 20002-4242
(202) 336-5700

Email: public.affairs@apa.org







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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   Darryl Gonzalez
|Sub:  dumb religious delusions
|Date: 28 Mar 97  20:16:15
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26 Mar 97 23:50, quoting Darryl Gonzalez to Mark O'Neill:


DG> OK.  A couple of items for you:

DG> 1.  A brilliant mathematician, Dr. Robert Herrman, Professor of
DG> Mathematics at the U.  S.  Naval Academy, has published an excellent
DG> mathematical demonstration using set theory which shows that it IS in
DG> fact reasonable to believe in God.

I don't give a goat-damn about someone's theory that it is reasonable
to BELIEVE.

I am interested in evidence that supports the contention that gods exist.

Present it....NOW.



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|From: Shelby Sherman
|To:   Mark O'Neill
|Sub:  Ken Young: Poster child
|Date: 28 Mar 97  20:25:37
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27 Mar 97 01:57, quoting Mark O'Neill to Shelby Sherman:


SS>> Just as a reference, how old are you, Kenny?

MN> when I was in high school(I graduated in 90), they were trying to stop
MN> prayer being
MN>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hell, if I was 25 years old and had never had a blow job, I would
kill myself.  Fundies are strange.


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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Reading Incomprehensi
|Date: 25 Mar 97  13:41:00
EID:3a44 22796d20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337656c
* On 21-03-97 at 03:54, DAN CEPPA wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Reading Incomprehensi" in echo Holysmoke:

DC>  DC>  KW> heaven. The New Testament repeatedly states the christian
DC>  DC>  KW> is not under the OT Law or bound by that Law. The Law was

DC>  DC> Bullshit, Kenny.  Your "godling" Jesus said that he "came not
DC>  DC> to change one dot or tittle of the law."

DC>  RS> Hence, Leviticus 20 still applies to them.  They should start
DC>  RS> stoning fags to death immediately :)

DC> Better yet, not being bound by the old law means that they
DC> can violate all of those old laws with impunity.   And,
DC> judging by xian actions, they are doing the best/worst
DC> they can in violating them.

But they never forget to apply all the laws to others, even
though Galatians clearly states that one is saved by faith, not
obedience.

Rod "...but hey, what's a few hypocritical viewpoints between
friends, eh?" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  Fat People
|Date: 25 Mar 97  13:42:02
EID:32c4 22796d40
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333765aa
* On 19-03-97 at 13:29, KATHERINE WINTERSNIGHT wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Fat People" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>But of course.  I think every human who has ever stopped to help
KW> RS>Gwenny just by even listening did more than the God of The
KW> RS>Bible(tm), who never even bothered to listen.

KW> Gwenny, by her own strength and will, has done far, far more to help
KW> herself than that god of their bible ever managed to accomplish.

God is less relevant than navel lint, Katherine.  We all know
that :)

KW> RS>And yes, my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek.  After all,
KW> RS>I'd not firmly plant it in Steiny's cheeks -- at either end :)

KW> You know that your turning him (and Young) on, dontcha?

That was the idea :) :)

Rod "...you know the get boners" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  13:43:04
EID:c264 22796d60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333765e8
* On 19-03-97 at 13:29, KATHERINE WINTERSNIGHT wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

KW>   I should have put crushed ice and salt in that water.

What-*ever!* :)

Rod "...ho ho ho!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  Cheese Whiz
|Date: 25 Mar 97  13:43:06
EID:b0d6 22796d60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333765ea
* On 19-03-97 at 13:29, KATHERINE WINTERSNIGHT wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Cheese Whiz" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>He needs a sex-change, Katherine.  He needs his own cervix :) :)

KW> Fine.  You can cervix him.

ICKY!

Rod "...that's the only word I can think of" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy     01
|Date: 25 Mar 97  14:57:08
EID:9f4d 22797720
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33377744
* On 19-03-97 at 13:29, KATHERINE WINTERSNIGHT wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>Oh, I dunno.  I've had demonstrations against you for your bear's
KW> RS>nomenclature, and how he's not gay :) :)  We're just
KW> RS>homosexualist ursine supremacists, my bear and I :)

KW> Fine--you try to wake him up when he's hibernating (napping).

:) :)  Is this a trick question? :)

KW> No, I respect people who have earned my respect.  If some of those
KW> people happen to be gay, that's nothing more than a fact about them,
KW> like some of them like celtic music, or have blue eyes.  Other than
KW> that, I'm perfectly content to let other people live their own lives
as
KW> I have not been endowed with any god like ability to judge the worth
of
KW> those lives.

Oh my.  Ken Young is probably spinning on his stick now.  To
think that someone could actually leave *another* alone!
*sacrilege*! :)

KW> RS>KW> Because they want to marry rather than just live together?  Because
KW> RS>KW> they want the right to live honest, decent lives?  Because they
don't
KW> RS>KW> want to be beaten, harassed, discriminated against, interned,
put in
KW> RS>KW> camps, damned to hell by the ignorant, ect, ect, ect?

KW> RS>He claims that the only way to solve the problem is for gays to
KW> RS>shut up and accept their second-class citizenry and the problems
KW> RS>of the heterosexual majority as foisted on them in
KW> RS>discrimination, physical beatings, and lies.

KW> He doesn't seem to realize that the quickest way to 'shut up' gays is
to
KW> let them determine their own lives in peace.

There you go again with that sacrilege of *tolerance*, Katherine.
You know, Ken will be all up-in-arms, in fear that some of it may
rub off on him! :) :)

KW> RS>I claim that the only way he can solve the problem of us being
KW> RS>around demanding rights is to grant them, fully, unencumbered,
KW> RS>and without any strings attached.  He will find that if we are
KW> RS>treated justly, we will have no cause to complain.

KW> RS>We aren't treated fairly now.  We have just reason to complain.
KW> RS>His solution, that we just shut up, requires him not to change.

KW> And allows him something to feel superior about--something that was
KW> just a chance occurrence and grants him no real superiority.

The Christians always need someone to dominate to assert their
religious doctrine over.  The fact is that he'd gain a lot of
personal satisfaction out of shutting up the "fags" too :)
Another reason why his death-cult needs to be given irrelevance
in today's society :)

Rod "... I suspect Ken is getting awfully excited by now!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy     02
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:01:10
EID:9e0d 22797820
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33377836
* On 19-03-97 at 13:29, KATHERINE WINTERSNIGHT wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>KW> KY>And hey, if people mind their own business, and don't
KW> RS>KW> KY>tell me about what they
KW> RS>KW> KY>are doing, why should I care?  It's their lives,
KW> RS>KW> KY>just leave me out of it.

KW> RS>KW>   And by the same ruling, you should be very
KW> RS>KW> careful to keep your
KW> RS>KW> wife well hidden in the closet.

KW> RS>In fact, they should not even get married, as a civil marriage is
KW> RS>a legally binding document the community *MUST* accept as a legal
KW> RS>union.  If he believes what he says above, he should rescind his
KW> RS>marriage licence immediately and not force us into his life.

KW> 

He still doesn't get this concept of freedom does he Karen??  He
never bothered to answer my claim that he should have no freedoms :)

Rod "...*sigh* and what a pathetic American he is for not even
understanding its most basic concepts." Swift :(

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Debunked Again!       1/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:27:12
EID:09c5 22797b60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33377e50
* On 21-03-97 at 02:16, KEN YOUNG wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Ken Young: Poster child" in echo Holysmoke:

KY>  RS> Read above.  I never made any such claim.  I made the claim that
KY>  RS> the evidence clearly shows that in virtually all surveyed people,
KY>  RS> sexual orientation is not a conscious choice.  Further, if it
KY>  RS> were a conscious OR subconscious choice, it would be able to be
KY>  RS> repaired like any other behavioural pattern choice.

KY> And since some have switched to being heterosexual, it has
KY> indeed been "repaired."

Evidence?

The leaders of your ex-gay ministeries admit they haven't changed
feelings, merely behaviour, and mostly to celibacy, not
heterosexual behaviour.

And certainly never to heterosexual orientation.

KY> WHy can't you understand this?

I cannot be made to understand something for which you have
provided *NO EVIDENCE*, Ken.  Nor can I critically examine it.

The second reason is why you provide no evidence, because you
know it cannot stand up to critical review.

You see, even the experts disbelieve in you:

Norton says, "The religious right wants people to believe
that homosexuality is only a behavior and therefore can be
changed. However, it is not just a behavior, it is also a
psychosexual and emotional development which is at the core
of an individual's self; and just like heterosexual
development it can not be altered or changed."

See the article I've attached about the religious right wing's
murdering of innocent gay youths by forcing them to repent or
commit suicide.

KY> You made yourself who you are,

Evidence?

KY> ...and that includes your likes and dislikes...

Not withstanding innate things like allergies, eh Ken?

KY> even sexually.

Evidence?

KY>  RS> I never said *every* single gay person.  I said *MOST people*.
KY>  RS> I'm quite willing to admit (and have) that there are some people
KY>  RS> who claim to have chosen.  We cannot determine if they did or not
KY>  RS> by simple investigation -- though it seems on further questioning
KY>  RS> on these individuals, they do express that their sexual
KY>  RS> orientation has always been innate (as they confuse the initial
KY>  RS> question to be "sexual activity" not "orientation").

KY> At least you admit that it is possible for one to choose,

No, I never did.  Read above.  I admitted that some *say* they
chose.  On closer clinical example, they are talking about sexual
ACTIVITY, not orientation.

KY> but I think if people were properly questioned, one would
KY> see that that person did indeed choose.

Nice spindoctoring.  As I stated above...

...it seems on further questioning on these individuals, they
do express that their sexual orientation has always been innate
(as they confuse the initial question to be "sexual activity"
not "orientation").

I do wish you'd read what I write.  On *closer clinical
examination and questioning they say they CHOOSE SEXUAL ACTIVITY
and NOT their ORIENTATION*.

KY> Perhaps it was due to some trauma

Yet *ANOTHER* theory everyone.  Now gays are gay because of
traumas!

THEORY 1: Gays actively choose.
THEORY 2: Gays consciously choose.
THEORY 3: Gays subconsciously choose.
THEORY 4: Trauma causes gays to choose.

Evidence, Ken?

KY> or maybe it was just basic insecurities.

And yet *ANOTHER* theory that is completely unevidenced.

THEORY 5: Gays are insecure and hence they choose to be gay.

Evidence?

Evidence of ANY of your FIVE theories so far?

KY> WHichever, if it has to do with how a person will live
KY> their life, it is indeed a choice.

How someone *chooses* to live their life is a choice.  Their
innate sexual orientation has nothing to do with that.  That is
also not a choice whatsoever.

KY> RS> Of any 1000 people who enter such a program of "repair" did you
KY> RS> know a significant proportion commit suicide within one year,
KY> RS> because of the fact they've been taught that "God hates them",
KY> RS> and that the majority of participants in these "repair" programs
KY> RS> are innocent gay youth who have been forced into the program by
KY> RS> their parents/pastors?

KY> Who teaches them that God hates gays?

Why, groups like Exodus International, Ken.  Why aren't you out
condemning them for killing young gay youths?

How about these words from one of these murderous cults of your God?

"I would rather you commit suicide than have you leave
Love In Action wanting to return to the gay lifestyle. In
a physical death you could still have a spiritual
resurrection; whereas, returning to homosexuality you are
yielding yourself to a spiritual death from which there is
no recovery"

-- The Final Indoctrination from John Smid, Director,
Love In Action (LIA), San Rafael's "ex-gay" clan.


KY> God is hardly about hating people.
KY> It is only their sinfulness that He hates.

No.  They are told God hates *THEM*.  What do you have to say to
that?  Here's a story of someone who was *saved* from the torture
mills and suicide internment camps run by ex-gay ministries.
___---------------------------------------------------------------------
By Dennis Anderson -- / "We The People" Monthly
--printed MAR 94 issue--
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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Debunked Again!       2/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:27:14
EID:f9c5 22797b60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33377e52
>>> Continued from previous message
Love In Action: The Final Indoctrination
Interview with Tom Ottosen, former Love In Action "ex-gay"

cult: a quasi-religious group, often living in a colony, with a
charismatic leader who indoctrinates members with unorthodox or extremist
views, practices or beliefs. --Webster's New World Dictionary.

"I would rather you commit suicide than have you leave Love In Action
wanting to return to the gay lifestyle. In a physical death you could
still have a spiritual resurrection; whereas, returning to homosexuality
you are yielding yourself to a spiritual death from which there is no
recovery" --The Final Indoctrination from John Smid, Director, Love In
Action (LIA), San Rafael's "ex-gay" clan.

"That's exactly how he put it," states Tom Ottosen, 24, an expressive,
articulate two year ex-LIA group member.

Ottosen says he clearly recalls that experience. He says it occurred in
October of last year during his last one-on-one conference with John Smid,
LIA's Executive Director, who claims to be able to change gay men into
straight men through a live-in rigidly controlled indoctrination program
Smid calls "reparative therapy."

Ottosen says Smid clearly and emphatically warned him, "It would be better
if I were to commit suicide than go back into the world and become a
homosexual again. He felt that a physical death -- with my soul intact --
was much preferable to a spiritual death, which would happen if I were to
leave the group and go back to being gay. John Smid had very strong
feelings on that," claims Ottosen.

Ottosen further states that Smid said this at a time when Smid clearly was
aware he had strong suicidal feelings and was going through periods of
extreme depression, guilt and loneliness.

Ottosen recalls his depression had been building for several months during
his second year at LIA, primarily because of a warm and emotional
relationship he was experiencing with another group member. "It wasn't
sexual at all, but it was strictly forbidden and I was kept from even
talking to him for several months."

Also, earlier in July, "Another house member, who was in his fourth year
with the group and in a position of authority, became depressed and
attempted suicide" and was sent away for observation. "He was taken from
his position of leadership and then he just kinda-disappeared." Ottosen
admits that he too, within a few months was at point where he had never
been before. "I couldn't work. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything."

He says he was so depressed and stressed that he knew he had to do
something different if he was going to survive. "When I found myself
calling the suicide hot line, I knew it was time to get out." If it
weren't for Lea Brown, a lesbian from Spectrum, Marin County's pro-gay and
lesbian counseling and information center, Ottosen says he doubts he would
have survived.

Smid responds that Ottosen's specific reference that he recommended
suicide is "totally untrue," however Smid does not deny that a private
meeting took place between he and Ottosen in October and confirms other
details of Ottosen's account.

It has been reported that former cult members who have been under the
intense intimidation of guilt-centered religious indoctrination, such as
those who escaped the mass-suicide poisoning at Jim Jones "Jonestown" and
the firestorm of self-destruction at the Waco Branch Davidian compound,
often spend years in intensive therapy trying to overcome the
psychological damage which a cult's rigid and uncompromising brainwashing
can cause.

The same kind of psychological damage can happen in the case of sexual
orientation indoctrination, agrees Lea Brown, Spectrum's programs manager.
"In this case, the heavy doses of deception and dishonesty which are
necessary to try to purge strong feelings of love and compassion from a
person's natural affection needs can cause serious problems. What groups
like LIA try to do is force people to choose between serving God and
living their lives. That's not a choice that anyone should have to make."

On the other hand, Psychotherapist Robert Norton, also Sonoma County's
Project 10 co-director who provides professional counseling to clients
such as Tom Ottosen, strongly condemns Smid's tactics. Norton says he was
"shocked and horrified" when he learned of this charge. One wonders "how
many other clients [Smid] has told to commit suicide?" Norton sternly
blasts these "cult-like organizations," and reminds them that telling a
client to commit suicide is clearly "a breach of ethical law."

Easing off slightly, Norton says, "The religious right wants people to
believe that homosexuality is only a behavior and therefore can be
changed. However, it is not just a behavior, it is also a psychosexual and
emotional development which is at the core of an individual's self; and
just like heterosexual development it can not be altered or changed."

Ottosen now understands this, and recalls during his last year at LIA at
least 75 percent of the original participants had either left the program
because it wasn't working for them or reported many "sexual falls"
(homosexual experiences including fantasies and masturbation). Many were
"forced from the group" when they began having serious doubts about the
program's effectiveness in their life. "They tell them they must leave
because the doubters become a threat to the other members. But then on the
outside, most ostracized members still feel intense loyalty to LIA, and
feel like they are betraying the group if they say anything to anyone
about their experience." Ottosen says he was lucky because when he was
told to leave, he immediately started seeing a licensed counselor on a
regular basis, "...but most are having a very difficult time on their
own."

Ottosen reveals that like most cults, the indoctrination program at LIA
is
very effective at fostering feelings of intense loyalty because all group
members are isolated within the group homes and all contacts outside the
group are extremely limited. "Due the fact that members are not allowed
to
question anything the hierarchy says, most members who were forced out or
who have left on their own end up extremely guilt-ridden, very confused,
dogged by the religious dogma given them by the groups, and most end up
worse than ever before," Ottosen said.
___---------------------------------------------------------------------

KY>  RS> I didn't say "seen".  I said "objectively *listen* to".  I see
KY>  RS> you don't listen to me, nor the evidence I have to offer about
KY>  RS> the truth about gay people.  You clamp your hands over your ears
KY>  RS> and refuse to even HEAR anything, let alone LISTEN to it or
KY>  RS> ABSORB it or CONSIDER it.

KY> I listen perfectly well, but I am not going to believe something
KY> unless I see something pointing to it being true.  I cannot accept
KY> psychology as evidence.

What about the 40% suicide rate of participants in Exodus
International's "programs"?  Is that evidence enough of the blood
on your hands?

I hope you burn in the hell your religion creates for you, for your
crimes against humanity, Ken.  You are a sick bastard.  The blood
is on YOUR hands.

You subscribe to the myth of "curing gays".  You are just as
culpable as your masters and your brothers in Christ that have
caused more deaths among gay youths than HIV.


And just so the facts get through your head:
* According to a 1986 survey conducted in Seattle, Washington, 40% of
homeless youth identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.  Half of all
lesbian and gay youth report that their parents reject them due to
their sexual orientation.
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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Debunked Again!       3/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:27:16
EID:69c4 22797b60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33377e54
>>> Continued from previous message
* Many interventions aimed at changing the sexual orientation of lesbians
and gay men have succeeded only in reducing sexual behavior and self-esteem
rather than in creating or increasing attractions to the other gender.

* It is considered ethically questionable by the professional psychological
community to seek to alter through therapy a trait that is not a disorder
and is extremely important to individual identity and sexual health.


And here's a reference you really should look at, especially the
last one.  I wonder why the Bush administration didn't publicise
that report too big, huh?:

Haldman, DC. "Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy for Gay men and
Lesbians: A Scientific Examination." In J.C. Gonsiorek & J.D.
Weinrich (Eds.) Homosexuality: Research Implications for Public Policy
Newbury Par, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 49-160; and Martin, AD
"Psychotherapeutic Implications of Internalized Homophobia in Gay
Men." In J.C. Gonsiorek (Ed.) Homosexuality and Psychotherapy: A
Practitioners Handbook of Affirmative Models, New York: Haworth Press,
1984, pp. 59-69.

Davidson G. "Constructionism and Morality in Therapy for
Homosexuality." In J.C. Gonsiorek &J.D. Weinrisch (Eds.)
Homosexuality: Research Implication for Public Policy. Newbury park,
CA: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 137-148; MaylonA. "Psychotherapeutic
Implications of Internalized Homophobia in Gay Men." In J. C.
Gonsiorek (Ed.) Homosexuality and Psychotherapy: A Practitioners
Handbook of Affirmative Model. New York: Haworth Press, 1982, pp.
59-69; and Silverstein C. "Psychological and Medical Treatment of
Homosexuality" In J.C. Gonsiorek &J.D. Weinrich (Eds.) Homosexuality
Research Implications for Public Policy. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
Publications, 1991, pp. 137-148.

Remafedi, G. "Male Homosexuality: The Adolescent's Perspective,"
Pediatrics, 79:326-330, 1987.

Gibson P, LCSW. "Gay Male and Lesbian Youth Suicide," Report of the
Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, 1989.


Rod "...P.S.  Eat shit, asshole" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: Freedom of choice
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:33:18
EID:b86b 22797c20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33377fbe
* On 21-03-97 at 02:28, KEN YOUNG wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Re: Freedom of choice" in echo Holysmoke:

KY>  RS> Why not?  Surely you believe that for gays to be repaired, they
KY>  RS> should marry innocent heterosexuals and lie to them, and
KY>  RS> eventually cause yet *more* horrendous damage to US families when
KY>  RS> the eventual break up occurs.

KY> No, because that is forcing it.

So you admit that "cured gays" are still not heterosexual?  I
thought you admitted that they are *COMPLETELY* cured, including
their UNDERLYING ATTRACTIONS AND DESIRES -- something that
science says CANNOT BE CHANGED.

So, when it comes to a "cured gay" marrying your daughter, you
still fear them still holding gay feelings.  Even YOU know that
they aren't cured.

Your own fears about "cured gays" show that you don't even
believe the rhetoric bullshit that you've been fed.

KY>  RS> Your religious-right-wing mentors claim that it's the best thing
KY>  RS> since sliced bread for faggots... Marry them off -- of course,
KY>  RS> unless it's one of your own daughters...

KY> No one that thinks they are gay, should get married to
KY> anyone.  Not until they figure things out.

Come come now, no hesitation, Ken.  You claim they're 100% cured
of their homosexuality.  Why don't you want one to marry your
daughter?  Afraid they're actually still gay, because you KNOW
they can't be cured, no matter what you spew as rhetoric here?

KY> What would I achieve by hurting someone because I feel they
KY> are immoral?

A medal from the Phineas group, for a start.  They hand them out
to people who kill a black or a faggot.  They are the most fun of
the identity movements at the moment.

KY>  RS> Of course, it may just reveal the exact reason why you're unfit
KY>  RS> to own a gun.  If you actually did find out that your daughter
KY>  RS> married a gay man, or son married a lesbian, you'd probably kill
KY>  RS> them if you found out that the person wasn't properly "repaired"
KY>  RS> by your Christian pseudo-shrinks at the Exodus brain butchers and
KY>  RS> liars.

KY> If my son or daughter married a homosexual, I would be quite upset...

So you admit that "repairing gays" doesn't work.

KY>  RS> We will bear children to your daughters or sons.  We'll create
KY>  RS> families.  Then we'll destroy them -- ripping them apart at the
KY>  RS> seams.

KY>  RS> After all, if you're going to claim that we're anti-family, we
KY>  RS> might as well live up to your propaganda.  And when you ignorant
KY>  RS> religious types realise the damage that is being done to your own
KY>  RS> families by denying the families and relationships of others,
KY>  RS> maybe you will consider leaving gay people alone to live their
KY>  RS> lives, with full access to all rights that heterosexuals take for
KY>  RS> granted.

KY> And maybe why such "propaganda" exists, if not true, could
KY> be because that is how several gays act.

Cite examples of the gays that are deliberately destroying
families, please.

KY> Most wouldn't say that gays are trying to rip apart family
KY> values, if several did not act like it.

No.  Of course not.  Most say it because they are parroting their
talking head Sunday Morning preachers -- who parrot it to make
MONEY.

Homosexuality is the BIGGEST money maker for Christian
ministries, didn't you know that?

Rod "...and who cares if lying about gays makes God some money,
eh?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Anti-women, anti-gay -- born again bigot, go away!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  The Jesus was homosexual
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:34:20
EID:0a24 22797c40
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33377ffc
* On 21-03-97 at 02:39, KEN YOUNG wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "The Jesus was homosexual" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> KY>  RS> fellow humans by a small group of humans who'd rather use
KY> KY>  RS> religion in a way more akin to Orwell's "Animal Farm"
KY> KY>  RS> (politically) or 1984 (social order) than for benevolence.

KY> KY> Well, not all Christians would do this.

KY> RS> We only need one.  Hitler was an example of one Christian.

KY> He wasn't a Christian...

No.  He *was* a Christian.

Rod "...now don't be a historical revisionist, Ken.  We'd hate to
have to bring up anti-Semitism as well as irrational homohatred
into your curriculum vitae!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Damien Wellman
|Sub:  helpless moron from oz
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:38:22
EID:5778 22797cc0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333780ee
* On 21-03-97 at 22:32, DAMIEN WELLMAN wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "helpless moron from oz" in echo Holysmoke:

DW>  RS> ... I was always under the impression that our total cost of
DW>  RS> living were much less than the US, or so sayeth the OECD.  One
of
DW>  RS> the big factors in our favour is the elimination of medical
DW>  RS> expenses due to a health care system that actually works and
DW>  RS> doesn't have huge price gouging :)

DW>  Well, true enough. But I don't care about medical expenses. I need
cheap
DW>  junk food! (So sayeth the computer geek...)

Food is on a comparable price with the US, besides the obvious
McDonald's price drop in the US.  The average value meal at, say,
the equivalent of BK over here is about US$3.00.

DW>  DW>  but this alone is almost enough to make me consider moving. :)

DW>  RS> We actually elect a religious conservative (yes, just the one)
so
DW>  RS> that we can have something to laugh at.  The other politicians
DW>  RS> appreciate having a court Jester :)

DW>  Much like HolySmoke in that respect, eh?

Oh yes! :) :)  We have Sunday mornings free of religious
broadcasters.  Our religious programming tends to occupy the
1:30am-5am timeslots on one commercial channel.

This is a good thing.  :)

DW>  RS> Rod "...I know of *NO* Americans who, after spending 3 months in
DW>  RS> Australia, wish to defect to a better, more tolerant, less
DW>  RS> criminal, less expensive, quality way of life :) :)  Did I
DW>  RS> mention that we have cute animals that also double as tasty food?
DW>  RS> :) :)" Swift :)

DW>  As an amusing aside, my parents once considered moving to Australia,
but
DW>  were told that it would be too difficult for 'em since they had a criminal
DW>  record. (A minor drug offense when they were young and reckless, but
large
DW>  enough to be a felony.)

Strange.  That would not be a reason to deny immigration rights.
Australia, being a liberalised place, tends to not view
convictions older than 10 years in such matters.  And even if
there were, waivers for immigration purposes can be obtained.

Rod "...I can find out more, if you like" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Did you expect mere proof to sway my opinion?

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ronald Vass
|Sub:  Proof/Evidence.What for
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:40:24
EID:6d70 22797d00
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378168
* On 20-03-97 at 21:27, RONALD VASS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Proof/Evidence.What for U" in echo Holysmoke:

RV> >RV> First you say this, then you have the odasity in the

RV> RS>Audacity.  Just where the hell did the US education system go?
RV> RS>*flush* *gurgle gurgle gurgle* *glug glug* :) :)

RV> I look and looked. I was saying it wrong, no wonder i couldn't
RV> find it in that dictionary. I couldn't get pass that ad or od .

That's ok... I've been advised of your dyslexia, so it's ok.  I
do understand.  Of course, it could have been worse.

You at least have better spelling than Jimson :) :)

RV> I know the meaning of the word 'proof', Rod. So you like to
RV> use a legal form, for your evidence or a truth or untruth.

I like to use a dictionary form :)

RV> Within this area, proof is used for booze or math. Evidence is
RV> what is needed, when dealing with things that go bump in the
RV> night.

One may suggest that people either clarify the use of words, or
get a new dictionary :)

RV> RS>        "...any *EVIDENCE* that...helps to establish the
RV> RS>        truth, validity of something..."

RV> I knew, what you were shooting for. I was just trying to
RV> be a smart ass. 

And trust me, I make asses smart :)  Just ask Ken!  He's got a
few new assholes that I ripped him :)

RV> RS>RV> Got u. 

RV> RS>No you didn't, Brother Ronald.  But at least you've never claimed
RV> RS>to be erudite like Jimson has :) :)

RV> Never will, either. The only thing i know for sure, is i
RV> don't know/understand enought.

But at least you spell better than he :)

Rod "....ho ho ho!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ronald Vass
|Sub:  Skeptic Tank Staff M
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:42:26
EID:8c8e 22797d40
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333781e2
* On 20-03-97 at 21:54, RONALD VASS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Skeptic Tank Staff M" in echo Holysmoke:

RV> RS>It's one of the ways we know that tolerance is winning.
RV> RS>Remember, if the Christians have their way, your kids will be
RV> RS>encouraged to call other kids "faggot", "queer", "fairy", "homo",
RV> RS>etc, etc, etc.  And perpetuate the myth that homosexuality is
RV> RS>bad.  In fact, the US studies show that about 30% of all
RV> RS>successful suicides could be gay-related (i.e. a gay kid being
RV> RS>made to feel worthless offs him/herself).

RV> Since it seems to be a more male thing  and it
RV> also appears to be a bigger/worst crime/sin for a male to
RV> be attracted to another male. I wouldn't have a problem in
RV> buying into that idea.

Well, it was a US Governmental report:

Gibson P, LCSW. "Gay Male and Lesbian Youth Suicide," Report of the
Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, 1989.

That's the title of it.  I wonder why the Bush administration
hushed up the results of their investigation into youth suicide,
I wonder?

Rod "...hmmm" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The only rational solution to your problem is suicide

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ronald Vass
|Sub:  To prove or not to prove
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:42:28
EID:c830 22797d40
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333781e4
* On 20-03-97 at 21:59, RONALD VASS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "To prove or not to prove" in echo Holysmoke:

RV> >RV> Who created the gods ? The Child or the Adult.

RV> RS>You are assuming that Christian adults are not "children".  Some
RV> RS>would say that mentally, they are.

RV> No. I question, who created the gods. We know kids, make up
RV> playmates when young. Was the 1'st god/dess a playmate that
RV> was carry over to adult life.

I agree.  Ciya! :) :)

Rod "...hehehehe!  Pun!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Oops, Caught Again
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:49:30
EID:ec11 22797e20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337838a
* On 21-03-97 at 02:20, DAN CEPPA wrote to KEN WIENS,
on the topic of "Oops, Caught Again" in echo Holysmoke:

DC> Of course he does, Kenny, he's the "one true xian" and
DC> you aren't.  Looks like you should send Staal the money
DC> he begs and get saved in his ministry.

Jimson always begs.  For money.  For leather.  For a good
spanking.  For a good work over. :) :)

DC> ... "I am a Lump, 'cause Unky Staal says I am. Got pictures to prove
it!"

I would like to know the origin of *that* one, God Dan :) :)

Rod "...because it sounds too incestuous to be true!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Black hole: where God divided by zero during creation

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Re: Book Theft
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:52:32
EID:d496 22797e80
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378440
* On 21-03-97 at 21:06, CHRISTOPHER HUGHES wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Re: Book Theft" in echo Holysmoke:

CH>  RS>> Of course, he will not be able to understand.  Neither will Ken
CH>  RS>> Young :(

CH> >     Oh, yes, I understand. And the state, God bless 'em, defines it
as the
CH> >     union between a man and a woman (even as the Bible does).

CH> Not universally. And not for much longer in the US, thanks to Hawaii.

Hallelujah!  The Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled the vote on the
Constitutional Convention to *not* have approved the ballot
measure to allow the convention to go ahead.

This is a big win for all decent Americans.  The religious right
wanted a constitutional convention to change the Hawaiian
constitution to remove (among other things) any right for
same-gender couples to marry, and the protections for native
Hawaiian tradition and culture.

The religious conservative nuts are up in arms, including the
unholy alliance of Right-wing Christians, the Mormons, and the
Catholics.

Rod "...it's a BIG WIN!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The *Constitution* is the Contract with America!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:57:34
EID:74fa 22797f20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337856e
* On 20-03-97 at 20:32, KEN YOUNG wrote to ROGER HUNTER,
on the topic of "DRIVING MR. DAISY" in echo Holysmoke:

KY>  KY> Well, I guess it all depends on what you view as gay bashing. 
Do you
KY>  KY> really think it is gay bashing for one to say that homosexuality
is
KY>  KY> immoral?
KY>  RH>
KY>  RH> Well, I guess it all depends on what you view as discrimination.
Do
KY>  RH> you really think it is discrimination for one to say that blacks
are
KY>  RH> inferior?

KY> Ah, but I never said that gays are inferior.

No.  You just believe they should have INFERIOR CITIZENSHIP and
RIGHTS -- as opposed to, say, EQUALITY.

KY> Plus, what does the color of one's skin have to do with their morality?

What does one's sexual orientation have to do with their
morality, either?

You've yet to provide one scrap of evidence to show how gays
"hurt" families.  I've shown heaps that show how families hurt gays.

KY>  KY> Generally, big changes occur in little steps, and it is a concern
of
KY>  KY> mine that homosexuality getting accepted, could lead the way to
other
KY>  KY> things getting accepted, that you would even find sick.

KY>  RH> You mean, like Christianity? Perish the thought!
KY>  RH> But seriously, NAMBLA hopes so. However, it seems to me to be a

KY> Right, and this is really my biggest reason for being against
KY> acceptance of homosexuality.

If it wasn't for the opposition within the gay community to
NAMBLA, you would have a lot of problems.  NAMBLA is attempting
very hard to be seen as part of the mainstream.  They attempt to
do this by attaching their pedophilia agenda to the equal rights
claims of gay people.

NAMBLA has consistently been banned by both organisers and court
order from marching in gay and lesbian demonstrations.

KY>  RH> The key phrase is "consenting adults".
KY>  RH> You want to bathe in piss? Fine, if your partner agrees.
KY>  RH> You want to rape anyone? NOT fine (no consent).
KY>  RH> You want to sodomise children? NOT fine (not adult).

KY> When you say the key phrase is "consenting adults," does
KY> that mean teenagers shouldn't be able to do the same things?

Yes.  Teenagers are unable to give consent to any sexual activity
whatsoever under the law until they reach the age of consent.

KY> So then, if someone wants you to kill them, that would be
KY> fine too, as they agreed to it?

If you are a qualified practitioner and are committing legalised
euthanasia access for terminally ill patients, yes.  The case
currently exists in that form in the Northern Territory.

KY>  RH> See? No god-myth needed.

KY> No god needed, you say?  Well then, where do you get your
KY> beliefs on what is right or wrong?

Philosophy dear boy... Philosophy.

Rod "...one doesn't need religion to know justice" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Ken Young: Poster Chi
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:57:36
EID:6e5d 22797f20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378570
* On 20-03-97 at 20:39, KEN YOUNG wrote to ROGER HUNTER,
on the topic of "KEN YOUNG: POSTER CHI" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> It has never been shown that everyone that sees porn, will turn into
a
KY> violent rapist or molester or anything.  But, there are
KY> generally negative effects.

These effects are?
Evidence?

I thought not.

Rod "...yet more claims unevidenced by Ken!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Sue Alexander
|Sub:  Oops, Caught Again
|Date: 25 Mar 97  15:59:38
EID:6106 22797f60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333785ea
* On 20-03-97 at 02:28, SUE ALEXANDER wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Oops, Caught Again" in echo Holysmoke:

SA>  RS> BTW, are the people who bomb abortion clinics and gay
SA>  RS> nightclubs for their Christianity, in your view,
SA>  RS> domestic Christian terrorists?

SA>  JS> No.

SA>  RS> What are you doing to stop these terrorists?

SA>  JS> Nothing. It is the job of the police in Atlanta. When they happen
SA>  JS> in GR (they won't) I'll be the first to bitch.

SA>      Why won't they happen in Grand Rapids, Jim?  Aren't there any
SA> Christians there, or are you trying to imply that there are no
SA> terrorists there?

Sue, there's nothing to suggest that Grand Rapids is safe from
Christian domestic terrorists.  Why, it was only about 3 weeks
ago when DETROIT (just down the road) had their own Christian
domestic terrorist who killed three innocent people in a bank.

Rod "...Jimson is, of course, ignorant to this, as it's another
example of domestic terrorism for Jesus" Swift :(

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Oops, Caught Again
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:00:40
EID:c45c 22798000
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378628
* On 21-03-97 at 15:26, JIM STAAL wrote to DAN CEPPA,
on the topic of "Oops, Caught Again" in echo Holysmoke:

JS>  JS> Isn't it interesting how these folks seem to demand you do some
sort
JS>  JS> of heinous deed. Rod Swift constantly insists that I go out and
kill
JS>  JS> homosexuals. I do not understand that sort of demented thought
JS>  JS> process. I mean, Dan's demand here doesn't even make any sense.

JS>  DC> Of course it doesn't, you imbecile.  The example I gave above
JS>  DC> is what your butt-buddy Wiens advocates.  He's the fucking
JS>  DC> asshole that posted exactly what was stated above.

JS> Hmmm...makes me wonder how you twisted Ken's words to get that sort
of
JS> meaning out of them. Or what did you do to severely provoke him to say
JS> something you could twist so severely.

No.  Ken Wiens has stated, and REPEATED, his support for the
EXECUTION of ANY woman, including 12-year-old GIRLS RAPED BY
THEIR FATHER, who aborts a foetus for ANY OTHER REASON but THE
DIRE HEALTH OF THE MOTHER.

Rod "...he's ONE OF YOURS, Jimson!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  My Summer Weekend
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:02:42
EID:3b03 22798040
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333786a2
* On 21-03-97 at 15:30, JIM STAAL wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER,
on the topic of "My Summer Weekend" in echo Holysmoke:

JS>  KS> JS>s'cuse me!? Are you Rod Swift???? (same rule applies, however.
As
JS>  KS> Bob JS>Dylan once so aptly put it, 'it might be the devil or it
might
JS>  KS> be the JS>Lord, but you gotta serve somebody')

JS>  KS> Horseshit.  I do indeed 'serve' certain people (my customers).
JS>  KS> Worship? No fucking way.

JS> Nah. (same rule applies, however. As Bob Dylan once so aptly put it,
JS> 'it might be the devil or it might be the Lord, but you gotta _serve_
JS>  somebody') See 'worship' in here anywhere, bright boy?

You forgot serving of *SELF*, which you clearly are.  All you and
most Christians have has been not a God-serving behaviour, but a
self-serving behaviour.

You don't care or love your God, you're only interested in
salvation and eternal life.

Rod "...we're onto you! :)" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Windows isn't crippleware.  It's functionally-challenged.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Karl Schneider
|Sub:  Staal stinks a little lo
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:04:44
EID:e39d 22798080
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337871c
* On 21-03-97 at 15:27, KARL SCHNEIDER wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Staal stinks a little low" in echo Holysmoke:

KS> JS> JS> after the little girl testified that her mother and her love
had
KS> JS> JS> 'licked her citty-cat'?

KS> JS> DC> As you have already been asked by Rod Swift:  Present your
KS> JS> DC> evidence, Jimbo.  Case name, dates, venue would be good
KS> JS> DC> for starters.

KS> JS>A very public case. Was in all the papers.

KS> Sorry, we don't read the Enquirer.  Put up or shut up, you lying fuck.

I put up.  It shows he got the kids' gender wrong, and that the
child was NEVER exposed to sexual activity.

Want the full court ruling?

Rod "...ho ho ho!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George L. Harper
|Sub:  Re: You forgot to answer
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:07:46
EID:26dc 227980e0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333787d2
* On 21-03-97 at 07:50, GEORGE L. HARPER wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: You forgot to answer" in echo Holysmoke:

GLH> >         1930's...(NEWS FLASH:  Hitler was NOT a Christian...he was
a
GLH> >         lunatic on the order of Jimmy Jones)
GLH> CH>
GLH> CH> He was still a Lutheran. And Jim Jones was an Evangelical.

GLH> You, of course, have church records to prove this?

Better, we have Hitler's own writings!  Straight from the horse's
mouth! :)

GLH> <[sigh]>  I know...I'm resorting to semantics again...

No.  You're resorting to evading the truth! :)  But that's ok.
Us seasonsed regulars realise this, and forgive you.

GLH> However you name his alleged belief system, Hitler was a lunatic,
GLH> fanatically revulsed by the semitic blood coursing through his veins

Yes.  Again, proving his Christianity :) :)

Rod "... Christians are responsible for more domestic terrorism
in nations than any other belief system" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Here fundie, fundie, fundie... Nice fundie... *whomp!*

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George L. Harper
|Sub:  Re: Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:14:48
EID:d7cd 227981c0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378978
* On 21-03-97 at 08:03, GEORGE L. HARPER wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

GLH> CH> Then why is it that under "don't ask, don't tell," the number of
GLH> CH> discharges for homosexuality has gone UP, and now down?

GLH> because, true to form, the gays haven't yet learned that THAT policy
GLH> applies to THEM???

No, it is the case because the Department of Defense is not
playing by the Department's end of the bargain.  Secretary of
Defense William Cohen has called for an immediate investigation
into why the Defense Department is PURSUING people SUSPECTED of
being gay, but who have not *told* anyone.

They are violating the "Don't ask" provision.

The policy is that:
The Department will not ask a servicemember's sexual
orientation or activities.
The servicemember will not tell the Department about
their sexual orientation or activities.
If the servicemember keeps silent, and the department
never asks, no one will be pursued.

The Department clearly isn't playing by the rules.  Hence the
review.

GLH> What the amendment implied was that there was no need for
GLH> such clauses and laws, because of prior civil rights legislation already
GLH> warranting such redress...including the sexual harassment laws...

No it didn't.  Please read the ruling I sent you.  It was to
specifically repeal the enumeration of civil rights protections
and equality for gay people.

As for your mealy-mouthed accusation against gay employers, I am
all for their right to reverse discriminate in the 41 states in
which they can.  After all, heterosexuals cannot complain when
they get fired from a job for being heterosexual.

Conversely, I'm all for the removal of the possibility for ANY
person to discriminate against any OTHER person based on
sexuality in the provision of jobs, services, public
accommodations, and the like.

I'm surprised you don't support that basic fairness.

It's just not fair for heterosexuals to have SPECIAL RIGHTS
protection under the law.

Rod "...is it?" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George L. Harper
|Sub:  Re: How about 1-on-1?
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:17:50
EID:c19f 22798220
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378a2e
* On 21-03-97 at 08:59, GEORGE L. HARPER wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: How about 1-on-1?" in echo Holysmoke:

GLH> A clever attempt at entrapment, and a well-defined example of
GLH> circumlocution (talking AROUND the subject, for the uninitiate)...
GLH> evidently Christopher has taken some exercises in semantics, as well...

Actually, his claim was that your "proving" of your Godling
wasn't based on independent evidence, and hence was
CIRCUMLOCUTION in the evidence -- a circularly logical and hence
fallacial argument.

You should try a life without God.  It is very good.  I was never
indoctrinated as a child and hence I have a pure, unadulterated
form of life.  I'd like you to share in that experience.

Rod "...and the ability to laugh at the ignorant who look up and
see a God, instead of questions needing to be answered" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Paranoia is *total* awareness!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Re: Around the World in.
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:19:52
EID:cba3 22798260
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378aa8
* On 21-03-97 at 20:32, CHRISTOPHER HUGHES wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Re: Around the World in.." in echo Holysmoke:

CH> >  Sorry. I was only speaking from recent events here in Michigan. A
CH> >  teacher in a nearby semi-rural community told a class of his of his
CH> >  recent 'marriage' to another guy in a local large Presbyterian church
CH> >  and the parents were incensed and demanded his job. A major battle
CH> >  ensued and the man was allowed to keep his position. This was just
last
CH> >  year. (the guy has since died of a heart attack or something, and
the
CH> >  preacher who 'married' them recently left town)

CH> I would lay odds that Michigan is not a right to work state. Thus, the
CH> school must have a compelling and legitimate reason to fire the individual
CH> in question. The question, then, became whether or not admission of
sexual
CH> orientation was a legitimate reason to be fired, and the courts apparently
CH> found (rightly, in my opinion) that it was not.

It wasn't fought in the courts, but on the School Board.  Jimson
failed to mention that the strongest defenders of the teacher was
the students themselves, who vowed to strike if the teacher was
sacked.

People power -- wonderful! :)

Rod "...and what good is a school board if the students refuse to
attend school?  IMPEACH THE BASTARDS!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Re: J.J. needs to be Hit
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:22:54
EID:6280 227982c0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378b5e
* On 21-03-97 at 20:44, CHRISTOPHER HUGHES wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "Re: J.J. needs to be Hitt" in echo Holysmoke:

CH> >     This is why I actually am not for prayer in school..  I believe
CH> >     organized prayer should never have been taken out, but now that
it
CH> >     has, it is too late to go back to how it was.

CH> So as long as the organised prayer is Christian prayer, you don't have
CH> a problem, but if it's some other type of prayer, then you do?

We want tantric sex magick in schools!  Nothing like school kids
learning about how to get naked and explore themselves as part of
school prayer!  :)

CH> What happened to freedom of religion, Ken?

All religions are free, but some are more free than others.
Welcome to Animal Farm USA, your host is Ken Young.

CH>  CH>> about the prospect of Rod's and my children (adopted someday perhaps)
CH>  CH>> being forced to pray to your god construct.

CH> > How can anyone FORCE someone to pray?  One may have prayer being said,
CH> > but that doesn't make you have to pray.

CH> Simple. You say "Alright class, time for the daily prayer." And all
the kids
CH> that don't follow the teacher's lead get sent to the principal's office
for
CH> not doing what the teacher told them to do. Used to happen all the time.

Still does.  But now it does not, which is much better.  It means
students can choose.

I thought religion was all about freedom to choose.

Rod "...guess not!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Re: Ha!
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:24:56
EID:746e 22798300
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378bd8
* On 21-03-97 at 20:59, CHRISTOPHER HUGHES wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Re: Ha!" in echo Holysmoke:

CH> JS>> I only know of myself.

CH> RS>> Yet you claim to know me better than myself.

CH> >      Where have I said that?

CH> You've repeatedly made claims about my husband's motives and motivations
CH> for his behaviour. You've claimed to "know" that my husband is afraid
of
CH> the Bible (without any valid supporting evidence).

Yeah Jim, so I expect you to keep your OPINIONS to yourself,
fuck-you-very-much!

Your scoreline is dropping.  You're still on 0 (1 if you're
Brawley) and we're at least at 10 debunks now (11 if you're
Brawley, 10.999997 if you're a bad Pentium).

Rod "...and a nice debunking by the Bear! :)" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The best prophet of the future is the past

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Re: Ha!
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:24:58
EID:ed89 22798300
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378bda
* On 21-03-97 at 20:59, CHRISTOPHER HUGHES wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Re: Ha!" in echo Holysmoke:

CH> JS>> I only know of myself.

CH> RS>> Yet you claim to know me better than myself.

CH> >      Where have I said that?

CH> You've repeatedly made claims about my husband's motives and motivations
CH> for his behaviour. You've claimed to "know" that my husband is afraid
of
CH> the Bible (without any valid supporting evidence).

Yeah Jim, so I expect you to keep your OPINIONS to yourself,
fuck-you-very-much!

Your scoreline is dropping.  You're still on 0 (1 if you're
Brawley) and we're at least at 10 debunks now (11 if you're
Brawley, 10.999997 if you're a bad Pentium).

Rod "...and a nice debunking by the Bear! :)" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The best prophet of the future is the past

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Re: Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:26:00
EID:99c0 22798340
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378c18
* On 21-03-97 at 21:21, CHRISTOPHER HUGHES wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "Re: Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

CH> Note: I'm not saying there's any protection for it there now. I'm saying
CH> that based on your argument that it's a choice, that there SHOULD be
such
CH> protection in the Constitution for it. In fact, whether it's a choice
or
CH> not it should be in there. We're one of the most backwards nations on
this
CH> planet; we don't even have equal rights for women guaranteed in our
CH> Constitution, even though the Supreme Court is starting to require strict
CH> scrutiny in sex-discrimination cases.

And such a sad nation to be lagging behind in fundamental
protections for all so much so that even South Africa has
overtaken the US on democratic rights, with the adoption of their
new constitution.

Rod "...Yes, that's what 5 years can achieve." Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Land rights for gay whales!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Christopher Hughes
|Sub:  Re: ...
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:28:02
EID:9fe3 22798380
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378c92
* On 21-03-97 at 22:09, CHRISTOPHER HUGHES wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "Re: ..." in echo Holysmoke:

CH>  KY>> Yep..  But He was not in an omnipotent form.  He came here as
a human
CH>  KY>> being.

CH>  DC>> Ok, so that means he's dead.

CH>  DC>> Hey gang, we can all go home!  Kenny admits his god is dead!

CH> >     He dies, that's for sure..  But guess what?  There is one little
part
CH> >     of this called the resurrection of Christ!

CH> And your evidence for this resurrection is....?

...never going to be presented by Ken, just like on every other
occasion he's asked for evidence of his "theories".

Rod "...praise Jeeezus for ignorant shitheads like Ken" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Participate in Throw a Christian to the Lions Year 1997!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: FREEDOM OF CHOICE
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:34:04
EID:b86b 22798440
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378dfc
* On 20-03-97 at 20:15, KEN YOUNG wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: FREEDOM OF CHOICE" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> >     I won't make a judgement on oral sex, as I am not
KY> > sure.  But anal sex would be very unnatural, yes.

KY> CH> Why would anal sex be unnatural? Based on what? Know how many
KY> CH> pleasure nerves there are in that region of the body? Since
KY> CH> you're the one saying that we were 'designed', then those
KY> CH> nerves had to have been put there for a reason. What purpose
KY> CH> would that be? Or did God make a mistake?

KY> Well, isn't anal sex painful?

No.  Lots larger things than a mere penis get shoved up there --
like whole hands -- in proctological exams and body cavity searches.

KY> I am not God, and thus, do not claim to have all the
KY> answers, but yes, everything He made, there is a reason for.

So, how do you explain the occurence.

Rod "...It's nice to know your whole anti-gay line is based on the
perception that an act of sex that you will never have performed on
you as the receptive partner is possibly 'painful'" Swift :)


* OLX 2.1 TD * Hey fundie! Why can't your mind be as open as your mouth?

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: Cracker Barrel boyco
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:35:06
EID:4c4d 22798460
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378e3a
* On 20-03-97 at 20:18, KEN YOUNG wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: Cracker Barrel boycot" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> >     something entirely against God,one is telling God that he doesn't
KY> >     truly believe His word, therefore he cannot truly be a Christian.

KY> >     Gays can become Christians, but not while they are gay.

KY>  CH> So, can someone who is homosexual, but has never had sex with anyone,
KY>  CH> be Christian?

KY> Not if they are going to remain a homosexual.

Strange.  There's nothing in the bible about homosexuality, only
same-sex genital sexual acts.

Rod "...why would they not be Christian?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Bugger me with a fish fork!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Baby burning in Hell
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:36:08
EID:696f 22798480
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378e78
* On 21-03-97 at 15:43, JIM STAAL wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Baby burning in Hell" in echo Holysmoke:

JS>  CH>  KD>> I found *birth* to be disgusting. Shall I outlaw that?

JS>  CH> >     The pro-choicers have already tried and suceeded in doing
that.

JS>  CH> Ok, people, Jim has gone off the deep end. Birth is now illegal
in
JS>  CH> his world.

JS> I was making reference to roe v wade, Chris.

And hence, you'd make an apt "temporary" replacement for Scuzball
Schitzo Scalia should he have a sick day.

Rod "...because he *doesn't-think* in the same way you do..." Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Nuke a godless homeless commie gay baby whale for Christ

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Becke Boyer
|Sub:  Re: Ken Young: Poster Ch
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:39:10
EID:c20a 227984e0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378f2e
* On 22-03-97 at 06:51, BECKE BOYER wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "RE: KEN YOUNG: POSTER CHI" in echo Holysmoke:

BB>Reminds me of something I saw on TV the other day. I was home because
I
BB>didn't have to work that day, and was flipping through the channels and
ended
BB>up on "The Jerry Springer Show". I don't usually watch those kinds of
talk
BB>shows, but this one looked rather interesting. They had both black and
white
BB>supremists on stage. They were bascially shouting bible verses at each
other
BB>to justify why they hated each other. I wish I would've been at the taping
BB>for that one...I could've said a mouthful..;)

Ah.  The only better show he had was the "KKK family" with the
Grand Dragon, a few klan-boys, and a nice mother who had her two
kids (one an infant) in pointy hood.

The audience was predominantly of African-American origin.

What a HOOT! :)

Rod "...this Springer guy is good" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Know God, know problems.  No God, no problems!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Judith Bandsma
|Sub:  Arrogance
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:40:12
EID:e76e 22798500
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33378f6c
* On 22-03-97 at 12:17, JUDITH BANDSMA wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "ARROGANCE" in echo Holysmoke:

JB>  CH> punch cards and COBOL for eternity would be a pain in the ass,
but
JB>  CH> then, this IS Hell, isn't it?

JB> Probably a step up from Commodore BASIC. 

PETSCII is hell! :)

Rod "... I still have a working PET 4016 if anyone wants to be
tortured" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Borg Express -- don't be assimilated without it!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Truth got you down?
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:48:14
EID:919e 22798600
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337914e
* On 21-03-97 at 15:29, JIM STAAL wrote to FREDRIC RICE,
on the topic of "Truth got you down?" in echo Holysmoke:

JS> RS> So Jesus fucks you up the ass without a condom and his
JS> RS> Holy Sperm lives within you.  No wonder you're so resistive
JS> RS> to wanting to leave your gay loverboy deity construct! :)

JS> JS> May your lips be seared with hot coals, blasphemer!

JS>  FR> What's the matter, pretty boy?

JS>  Well, thankyou, Fred. I'm glad you find me attractive.

JS>  FR> The depiction is accurate, you know.

JS>  No, more the substance of a very twisted, tormented gay mind.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  Jim thinks Fredric is GAY!
Haahhahahaahahhahaahah!  Hohohohaohahahhheheheeh!  Hahahhahaahah!

I'm sorry.  That's just too good :)

Rod "...fuck-you very much for your opinion, Staalin" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Can I put my Sharp in your mainframe on the desktop?

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Around the World in.. 2/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:50:16
EID:e88e 22798640
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333791c8
* On 21-03-97 at 15:32, JIM STAAL wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER,
on the topic of "Around the World in.. 2/" in echo Holysmoke:

JS> JS> You can't fire someone for being gay.

JS> KS> You are a fucking liar.

JS> JS> What country do you live in? There _are_ laws against
JS> JS> discrimination, you know.

JS> KS> You are a moron.

JS> And you? How would you describe yourself?

You fail to understand that Karl called you a moron because you
failed to understand that in 41 states in the United States, it
is QUITE legal to fire someone due to their sexual orientation,
and the person has no right nor claim of job discrimination.

Rod "... repeating, Jimson, you are an *IGNORANT* moron for not
accepting the correction of your error" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Yogi Bear was a nudist buddhist

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Robert Curry
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Special
|Date: 25 Mar 97  16:51:18
EID:74fb 22798660
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33379206
* On 21-03-97 at 20:13, ROBERT CURRY wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "Driving Mr. Special" in echo Holysmoke:

RC>  KY> They simply do not want gays to have special rights.

RC> No one does. _Equal_ rights would be nice, though.

But if we grant equal rights to gays, everyone will want them!!!

Rod "...*hint*" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a saviour out of this virgin!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Christanic Terrorists
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:13:20
EID:ab4b 227989a0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33379730
* On 21-03-97 at 22:49, GEORGE HARPER wrote to DON MARTIN,
on the topic of "CHRISTANIC TERRORISTS" in echo Holysmoke:

GH> Proposition:  It shall hereinafter be totally illegal to perform, or
to
GH> participate in the performance of, any abortion.

Why not just choose not to have one, George?

Rod "...fuck you very much for shoving your religious beliefs
down our throats, you totalitarianistic fuckwit.  Hitler would
love you!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Diplomacy: Saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Re: Educational Experien
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:15:22
EID:b695 227989e0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333797aa
* On 21-03-97 at 22:49, GEORGE HARPER wrote to MARTIN GOLDBERG,
on the topic of "Re: Educational Experienc" in echo Holysmoke:

GH>  GH>     The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil:  God made it and put
GH>  MG> Non biblcial evidence for a god, eden, or a tree of life, please.

GH>  Circular reasoning time:  because the world exists, it had to have
a
GH>  singular starting point, therefor creation exists.  Since God creates
GH>  things, it follows that He created the world.  And, given that, He
has
GH>  to exist in order to have created the world.   Ergo, because the world
GH>  was created, God exists. (two out of three...non-biblically).

It's nice to know you admit that it is a circularly, rather than
independently, logical argument.

Rod "...Look, the earth exists, therefore the INVISIBLE PINK MAY
DAY BUNNY must have made it, as it says so in this holy book" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * And God said: E = +mv} - Ze}/r... and there *was* light!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Re: CRACKER BARREL BOYCO
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:21:24
EID:9aee 22798aa0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33379914
* On 21-03-97 at 07:36, GEORGE L. HARPER wrote to ROGER HUNTER,
on the topic of "Re: CRACKER BARREL BOYCOT" in echo Holysmoke:

GLH> I presume not, because there IS geologic evidence that supports
GLH> the world-wide flood.

There is?  Please cite your references.  Scientific journals would be nice.

GLH> If you DO choose the latter approach  -  as you well might, untrained
as yo
GLH> are  -  remember to include in your disdain the physical evidence located
o
GLH> top of a mountain called Ararat, located in central Turkey.

You mean the wood marinated in Teriyaki sauce?

GLH> How's THAT for scientific (Actually EMPIRIC) evidence?

It was the biggest hoax ever perpetrated to expose the ICR for the
lunatics they are.

Rod "...marinated wood *tested* by the ICR showed it to be Noah's Ark,
hahahaha" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Time is an illusion of the manufacturers of space

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jason Sichkaryk
|Sub:  god
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:23:26
EID:9a51 22798ae0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337998e
* On 20-03-97 at 18:05, JASON SICHKARYK wrote to ALL,
on the topic of "god" in echo Holysmoke:

JS> god sucks

Simple, to the point, and completely compensatory for the
bullshit the OTHER JS spreads :)

Rod "...welcome aboard, Jason, though you need to work on
increasing the debunk factor of your posts" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Anti-women, anti-gay -- born again bigot, go away!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Baby burning in Hell
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:24:28
EID:696f 22798b00
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 333799cc
* On 21-03-97 at 15:25, JIM STAAL wrote to DAN CEPPA,
on the topic of "Baby burning in Hell" in echo Holysmoke:

JS>  KD> I found *birth* to be disgusting. Shall I outlaw that?

JS>  JS> The pro-choicers have already tried and suceeded in doing that.

JS>  DC> And the name of that law is?

JS> It's called 'roe v wade'.

Can you please quote from this decision the actual court fiat
that allowed all BIRTHs?

Rod "...thanks" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Black hole: where God divided by zero during creation

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Judith Bandsma
|Sub:  Around the World in.. 2/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:34:30
EID:707b 22798c40
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33379c26
* On 22-03-97 at 06:15, JUDITH BANDSMA wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Around the World in.. 2/" in echo Holysmoke:

JB>  JS> Well, so then you are covered by the Feds, right? What country
do you
JB>  JS> live in? USA. Ahh...gotta love it, eh?

JB> I'm sure Chris was speaking tongue in cheek, Jim. There are NO federal
JB> protections from discrimination due to sexual orientation.

Strange Christanic Hypocrisy #2746:

Christians claim that gays should have equality and
not special rights.  This includes the right to work.
These same Christians then oppose the Federal Employment
Non-Discrimination Act, and state counterparts which do
the same, and work to REVOKE the law in the nine states
where job discrimination based on sexual orientation is
outlawed.

Rod "...just providing the facts" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Any milk can make cheese.  Here, have some gerbil cheese.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Judith Bandsma
|Sub:  Educational Experienc
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:37:32
EID:8728 22798ca0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33379cdc
* On 22-03-97 at 12:38, JUDITH BANDSMA wrote to GEORGE HARPER,
on the topic of "Educational Experienc" in echo Holysmoke:

JB>  GH> The remains of the Ark have been found.   YOU figure out how long
it
JB>  GH> took one man to build it from scratch.

JB> Not AGAIN? How many times is this thing going to be found?
JB> Hint for you...it hasn't.

Wasn't the Noah's Ark hoax a teriyaki-sauce-marinated piece of
wood? :) :)

Rod "...ho ho ho!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Politics: Poly=many, Ticks=blood-sucking parasites

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Lynda Bustilloz
|Sub:  Motion Passed
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:47:34
EID:1eba 22798de0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 33379f36
* On 19-03-97 at 13:15, LYNDA BUSTILLOZ wrote to MARY SMITH,
on the topic of "Motion Passed" in echo Holysmoke:

LB>  MS> HOW CAN YOU BOTH USE THE LORDS NAME IN VEIN?

LB> Now. Lets assume you meant to say "vain", shall we.
LB> Is Dan your god's name?
LB> Is "God" your god's name?
LB> Why are you taking Jesus's Mommy's name in vain?

You know, if Mary had just had one of those Roe v Wade compulsory
abortions that Jimson talks about, we'd never have this problem
at all in the first place!

Rod "...abort Jesus now!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Do unto others, often.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Robert Curry
|Sub:  questions for chosen one
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:57:36
EID:5c20 22798f20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a190
* On 20-03-97 at 21:30, ROBERT CURRY wrote to ALL,
on the topic of "questions for chosen one" in echo Holysmoke:

RC> Every Wednesday when regular classes are in session, there is a
RC> flea market on the campus of the University of South Florida in
RC> Tampa. Last Wednesday I noticed a man renting space because his
RC> belief is that he is "The Chosen One" of god (thus I stopped to
RC> chat for a few minutes, naturally).

RC> If anyone would like to suggest questions for next Wednesday, I
RC> would be happy to relay them and report on the results here for
RC> everyone's illumination.

I would be erring in my duties if I did not ask you to ask the
quintessential "Night Stand" question:  Have you ever had a
homosexual experience?  :)

RC> According to his letter from god, he cannot be killed as he now
RC> is immortal in the flesh.

Question 2: Will you prove your immortality by putting a
loaded gun to your head and pulling the trigger?

RC> He also gives away free bananas. I didn't ask why.

Question 3: Do you use the bananas in some bizarre homosexual sex
orgy?

RC> Please feel free to suggest further lines of inquiry, folks.

Question 4: Does God talk inside your head?  Has he ever told you
to shoot up abortion clinics or innocent civilians or bomb
clinics or gay nightclubs?

Question 5: Do you believe Mary should have aborted Jesus, to
save the world without him having to be cruxified?

Rod "...praise Jesus" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Land rights for gay whales!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Robert Curry
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  17:58:38
EID:7acd 22798f40
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a1ce
* On 20-03-97 at 21:30, ROBERT CURRY wrote to KEN WIENS,
on the topic of "Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

RC>  KW> I most certainly said yes, a 12 year old rape victim who
RC>  KW> willfully has her unborn child aborted should be tried and
RC>  KW> if found guilty executed.

RC> Would you execute the raped 12-year-old child yourself, or would
RC> you insist that someone else do your dirty work for you?

Remember to ask him if he'll torture them a bit first, you know,
as punishment for their crime! :)

Rod "...bit of brutality, you know!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Yogi Bear was a nudist buddhist

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Roger Hunter
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel Boycot
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:03:40
EID:49af 22799060
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a2fc
* On 20-03-97 at 17:27, ROGER HUNTER wrote to FREDRIC RICE,
on the topic of "CRACKER BARREL BOYCOT" in echo Holysmoke:

RH>  FR> How is measles transmitted, dear?  And how is HIV transmitted?

RH> Personal contact, in both cases. AIDS is harder to catch, that's all.

RH> And for AIDS we can add shared needles and unprotected sex, which
RH> AIDS carriers are frequently involved in as well.

Strange.  CDC shows that they are not generally, once diagnosed.
There are only a handful that -- after diagnosis -- want to take down
as many as they can.  I also note that in many US states, it is a
crime to attempt to transmit HIV knowingly and maliciously in the
intent to infect another.

Compare their activities (which are criminalised) to the ignorant
people out there who aren't diagnosed because they feel they have
no need to -- they're the ones infecting tens of thousands of
people, not the diagnosed.

RH>  FR> Your suggestion has merit were we discussing the various strains
of
RH>  FR> Ebola but are you sure you want to defend your position about HIV?

RH> Any day. I'll even throw in immediate execution for HIV positives
RH> if you wish, since they'll die anyway.

Now this is just CLEARLY ignorance.  Further, it's working
AGAINST finding a cure.  We're only just seeing now people still
surviving after 17 years of being infected.  These people are
*VITAL* in finding out WHY they aren't symptomatic.  Why they
aren't getting sick is important.

If we killed them all, we'd not have any clues as to why their
genes provide them some resistance to developing AIDS.

Rod "...you really overstepped the mark with that last comment" Swift :(

* OLX 2.1 TD * Jesus saves, passes to Moses.  He shoots.  He scores!!!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Sue Alexander
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel Boycot
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:07:42
EID:9876 227990e0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a3ee
* On 20-03-97 at 02:35, SUE ALEXANDER wrote to ROGER HUNTER,
on the topic of "CRACKER BARREL BOYCOT" in echo Holysmoke:

SA>  RH> SO WHAT? It's fatal and I don't care HOW hard it is to catch.
SA>  RH> You want to sleep with lepers? It's hard to catch, too.

SA>      Say you catch HIV from a blood transfusion...would YOU be willing
SA> to allow youself to be locked away for the rest of your life?

No.  Roger has said that he should be put to death instantly, as
"all HIV positive people die".

Rod "...I note that if he had been able to institute that policy
17 years ago, we'd have no people living with HIV for more than
15 years -- and hence lost the valuable research into why they
had not developed AIDS and others have" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The First Amendment overrules The First Commandment!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ed Mills
|Sub:  1 The List
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:12:44
EID:bcdb 22799180
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a51c
* On 22-03-97 at 19:09, ED MILLS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "1 The List" in echo Holysmoke:

EM> MO> Comments:  Born 2-Jan-1967.

EM> RS> Ah, about six years my senior, I see.

EM> Oh, good grief.
EM> This is sickening.

Isn't it.

EM> I'm seeing more and more of these little reminders that geezerhood
EM> is now on the visible horizon for us baby-boomers. Sometimes twice a
EM> fucking day, lately.  :-O

But edweird, isn't it comforting that the freethought and
atheistic ideals and philosophies is generational and doesn't
require passage between generations by *indoctrination*.

Yes!  Atheism and free thinking comes from within!  It's the
natural thing for humans! :) :)

Rod "...watch the Christians spin!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Martyrdom: The only way someone becomes famous -- Shaw

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  jesus needed...
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:17:46
EID:151d 22799220
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a64a
* On 19-03-97 at 21:41, KEN WIENS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "jesus needed..." in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>SA was Ms Armstrong :)  Besides, your bible clearly states that a
KW> RS>man shall leave his parents and get a wife.  Back in the OT that
KW> RS>is :)... Genesis, right?

KW>    It also says marriage is not required of everyone in a
KW>    number of places. So, what is your point?

Exactly.  Thanks for admitting that marrying is important.  I
gather you will now allow same-gender marriage rights to exist?

KW> RS>Your own dead homo on a stick is even un-Biblical :)

KW>    That concept is most certainly un-Biblical.

You really should read more of your bible to find out about
Jesus, the most famous gay person in history.

KW> RS>Oh, so who was the disciple he loved?

KW> KW>John the Apostle is a good guess. The key verse in
KW> KW>question here is John 21:7 where the phrase "The
KW> KW>disciple whom Jesus loved" is used.

KW> RS>What about the usage in the other cases in John?

KW>    Which other cases do you have in mind?

The appearance to John and mother?  Why does Jesus want John and
Jesus's mother to live as mother and son?

And this is not dissimilar to the requests of many gay people
who know of their imminent deaths.

KW> RS>Is this more of your biblical-denialism, like that
KW> RS>of Leviticus 20?

KW> KW>What did Jim deny about Leviticus 20?

KW> RS>That he has to kill faggots,

KW>    He is quite right. Leviticus 20 was very specifically
KW>    addressed to Israel and the foreigner living among
KW>    them. It was not addressed to anyone else.

Strange.  Jesus told all the Christians to follow the Laws of
Moses! :)

KW> RS>Further, since your bible CLEARLY and UNEQUIVOCABLY states that
KW> RS>the law would not change one jot with Jesus's first coming, the
KW> RS>law is still in effect for all followers of Christ and the
KW> RS>Christian God.

KW>    Since the Bible CLEARLY and  UNEQUIVOCABLY states that the
KW>    law would not change one jot with Jesus's first coming,
KW>    the law is still in effect for all those outside of Christ
KW>    who desire to earn a right relationship with God.

So you admit that the Law of Moses is applicable to Christians?
If it were not, why would Jesus command it to the Gentiles?

KW>    One must accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

Thank you for your admission that your crusade against any sinner
is just false pretense, as they don't need to abide by any law
whatsoever.

KW> RS>Rod "...so, Ken, tell me how many faggots you've let live,
KW> RS>instead of killing them like your bible commands?" Swift :)

KW>    Rod, as I advised, you really need to wear a sign with
KW>    large words written on it saying, "I am a faggot" and
KW>    walk thru an ultra orthodox jewish community with it.

Why aren't you killing fags like your bible claims?  Why do you
want to kill abortionists, but not faggots?

Isn't your bible's double-standards good enough for the fags?

Rod "...you sick man!" Swift :(

* OLX 2.1 TD * 1-900-666-0666: Live beasts, one-on-one-pacts, call now!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Reading Incomprehensi
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:21:48
EID:3fd1 227992a0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a73c
* On 19-03-97 at 23:04, KEN WIENS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Reading Incomprehensi" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>Matthew 5:17

KW> RS>"Do not think that I have come to do away with
KW> RS>the Law f Moses and the teachings of the
KW> RS>prophets.  I have not come to do away with them,
KW> RS>but to make their teachings come true.
KW> RS>18 Remember that as long as heaven and earth last,
KW> RS>not the least point nor the smallest detail of
KW> RS>the Law will be done away with -- not until the
KW> RS> end of all things.
KW> RS>19SO THEN, WHOEVER DISOBEYS EVEN THE LEAST
KW> RS>IMPORTANT OF THE COMMANDMENTS AND TEACHES OTHERS
KW> RS>TO DO THE SAME, WILL BE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF
KW> RS>HEAVEN. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law
KW> RS>and teaches others to do the same, will be great
KW> RS>in the Kingdom of heaven.
KW> RS>20I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter
KW> RS>the Kingdom of heaven ONLY IF YOU ARE MORE
KW> RS>FAITHFUL THAN THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW AND THE
KW> RS>PHARISEES IN DOING WHAT GOD REQUIRES.

KW>    Do you realize what you failed to see here? It is
KW>    very critical. Jesus was speaking to members of
KW>    the nation of Israel as Israel here.

No he wasn't.  It's God's commandment and words -- the Bible is,
after all, God's Words (by your claim) -- and hence applies to
all followers of God.

KW> RS>Don't be a Pharisee, Ken.  Kill a Kweer for your Kweer
KW> RS>Khrist!

KW>    No christian was ever commanded to do this by Jesus.

Yes they WERE.  They were COMMANDED TO FOLLOW THE OLD LAWS OF
MOSES.  Matthew 5!

So, start killing fags, Ken.  Or don't they scream as much, nor
provide as much satisfaction, as killing a 12-year-old girl?

Rod "...oh, killed any 12-year-olds for Jesus for having an
abortion, Ken?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Windows isn't crippleware.  It's functionally-challenged.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Exemplifying examples
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:25:50
EID:f3c7 22799320
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a82e
* On 19-03-97 at 23:10, KEN WIENS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Exemplifying examples" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> KW>Our Constitution was framed in such a way as to
KW> KW>acknowledge there is a Higher Spiritual Power,
KW> KW>a Power above governments...Remember all that
KW> KW>stuff about us all being "created equal..." etc.

KW> RS>That's not in the Constitution.  That's the Declaration of
KW> RS>Independence.  The DofI has no legal weight.

KW>    That declares the basis of Justice, the basis of
KW>    our rights to Liberty, etc. i.e., because we
KW>    are all created equal by our Creator. The DofI
KW>    has 100% as much legal weight as the Constitution.

No.  You are YET AGAIN wrong.  The DofI has NO legal weight.  It
is a cursory preface -- a declaration of statements of philosophy
-- from which the tenets of a free, secular state, was
established.

You claimed clearly that your CONSTITUTION itself contains
references to a Creator.  Have you read the original
Constitution, and the amendments to it?

KW> KW>Those guys believed in a Creator and that we
KW> KW>are created and as such created equal.

KW> RS>And as such, secular government cannot be allowed to be
KW> RS>reflective of any religious belief.  Hence, the secular
KW> RS>Constitution of the US.

KW>    That is a modern wrong-headed Revisionist view.

Wrong again.  Get some clues, now, ignoramus.

KW>    It is not the view of the Framers of the Constitution.

Read the fucking Federalist papers, moron!

Shit.  I bet all the other echo participants are so fucking
embarrassed by your complete and utter ignorance of your
governmental structure -- one that a foreigner with no education
in the system of government knows better of than you do.

KW>    Whether you like it or not both the Declaration of
KW>    Independence and the Constitution are very reflective
KW>    of the belief that we are all created equal by our
KW>    Creator.

No.  You claimed earlier that only the CONSTITUTION, and SOLELY
IT, was religiously based and had references to a CREATOR.

You LIED.

You were DEBUNKED.

Suffer the consequences.  Don't squirm.  You'll only injure
yourself more from the claws.

Rod "...fucking idiot" Swift :(

* OLX 2.1 TD * Don't buy furs.  It takes trees to make protest signs.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:25:52
EID:f974 22799320
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a830
* On 19-03-97 at 23:13, KEN WIENS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>Context?  The context is Jesus claiming that not one word of the
KW> RS>old law, not one iota, will be changed.  Not one jot or tittle.

KW>    The context involves, among other things, your ability to
KW>    distinguish between Levitical Law which applied only to
KW>    Israel and the foreigner living among them and moral Law
KW>    which applies to all people.

So, please describe why you claim that laws against homosexual
sex apply to me, a non-Israelite?

Rod "...or do you agree that your declaration now shows that your
claims that homosexuality is 'immoral' is not applicable?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * REALITY.SYS corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N/Q)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Reading Incomprehensi
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:28:54
EID:3fd1 22799380
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a8e6
* On 22-03-97 at 13:24, KEN WIENS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Reading Incomprehensi" in echo Holysmoke:

KW>    So, why don't you follow the teachings of Jesus Christ?

Because as a child, I was never exposed to the terror of
Christianity.

Praise Jesus, huh! :)

Rod "...I bet it makes you burn with anger to hear a person who
has never once heard the word of God that's been spindoctored by
one of the professional religious liars, eh?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Time is an illusion of the manufacturers of space

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:30:56
EID:ce1f 227993c0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a960
* On 22-03-97 at 13:28, KEN WIENS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RS>Strange.  Ken Young believes that no homos will be in
KW> RS>heaven.

KW>    Oh, I don't know. His view is based on what he was taught.

But homosexuals clearly can be in heaven.  Your own admission,
Ken.  Remember, homosexuals need not follow the law, only believe
in Christ and his rising...

KW> KW>It is living a lifestyle...

KW> RS>and get ready for it, kids, a Christian is just about to
KW> RS>ignorantly claim what the gay lifestyle may be...

KW> KW>... where one regularly engages in such acts without
KW> KW>stopping the practice and repenting that will
KW> KW>send one to hell.

KW> RS>And then, god damn it, he never got around to explaining this
KW> RS>"gay lifestyle".  You see, no one has ever been able to provide
KW> RS>an answer to this concept.  And, being gay, I'm really confused,
KW> RS>because I know of no such distinct "gay lifestyle".

KW>    I'm sorry you are so totally confused. But I am not at all
KW>    surprised that you are. Let me fill you in on the facts.
KW>    The Bible, both Old and New Testaments condemn the act
KW>    of homosexual sex.

But since neither apply to non-Israelites, we don't have a
problem with that.

Rod "...too bad you won't be joining me in Heaven, Ken.  I pity
you, but you can give up your sick deathstyle and join the
winning team(tm)!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * "It's 50-50!  Better odds than at the Dabo table" - Quark

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Fundy Frolics 1/3
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:32:58
EID:ddff 22799400
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337a9da
* On 22-03-97 at 13:29, KEN WIENS wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Fundy Frolics 1/3" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> KW>Nope. I don't believe any babies burn in hell, period.

KW> RS>Why not?  I think the sound of babies being tossed into the
KW> RS>"eternal lake of fire" with the accompanying screams would be
KW> RS>such a satisfying sound for the residents of heaven, no?

KW>    It just goes to show where your values are.

Oh yes!  I love performing abortions too.  If you partially birth
them, the foetuses scream as you pierce the backs of their neck.
I even suck out the brains by siphoning it out with my mouth.
It allows one to blow it back in and hence scramble the brains
before finally removing them!

Rod "...wahhoooooo!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Velcronomicon: A magick book that sticks with you

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Laurie Appleton
|Sub:  Your Financial Distress!
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:35:00
EID:9fd8 22799460
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337aa54
* On 23-03-97 at 10:11, LAURIE APPLETON wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Your Financial Distress!" in echo Holysmoke:

LA> LA>  Mr. Chang-Sha Fang or Mr. Russell Jones

LA> RS> Are they having a homosexual relationship?

LA>   Why do you ask? Is that what you are looking for?

Why are they living together in a residential house in Victoria
Park?  They're not living the gay lifestyle, are they?

LA> RS>    I scoped this place the other day.  Looked *very very*
LA> RS> sinister!

LA> Did it indeed. Then you were wise NOT to go in, weren't
LA> you?

Oh, I went in :) :)

LA> So, if you are so keen to get a copy of the REVISED
LA> QUOTE BOOK then what is stopping you writing them a letter
LA> and asking them to post you one. You DO have a credit card,
LA> don't you??

I thought Credit Cards were the work of the devil?  Oh, the IRONY!

LA> However, if you are as "dead-broke" as you seem to make
LA> out, then why haven't you saved some of the quotes that I
LA> have already posted to you?

I'd prefer to have a printed copy, all the same.  And since your
bible commands you to hand over all your cash -- no questions
asked -- to anyone who demands it, I thought I'd be charitable
and only ask for a small contribution.

Rod "...but since you are resisting, I expect $100 to be sent
with a copy of the book, to an address I can specify if you agree
to send it" Swift:)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Can I put my Sharp in your mainframe on the desktop?

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Marilyn Burge
|Sub:  Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:36:02
EID:282b 22799480
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337aa92
* On 23-03-97 at 12:05, MARILYN BURGE wrote to ROD SWIFT,
on the topic of "Cracker Barrel boycott" in echo Holysmoke:

MB> KY> And homosexuality is obviously a part of you, right?  It is
MB> KY> part of who you are and what makes you, you.  Well then,
MB> KY> just as through other experiences and choices, you decided
MB> KY> what your personality would eventually grow into, you also
MB> KY> decided to be gay, the same way.

MB>  RS> Evidence that this model of sexual orientation development is
MB>  RS> proven?  Citations?  References?  Any evidence whatsoever?

MB> He wouldn't even be right if he said "high-strung" instead of
MB> homosexual.  The latest findings suggest that our basic
MB> personality/temperment is hard-wired in our genetic code, with
MB> only slight modification possible after birth.

Marilyn, I don't think there is any hope for Ken to join reality.

Rod "...*sigh*" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Rap is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy     2/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:40:04
EID:1b14 22799500
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337ab84
* On 21-03-97 at 06:52, KAREN DAVIS wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

KD> KY> Debunked generally means one has been proven wrong.  But I
KD> KY> fail to see yet, any rallies for heterosexual special rights.
KD> KY> They were anti-gay, but not necessarily for special rights
KD> KY> for anyone.  They simply do not want gays to have special
KD> KY> rights.

KD> But they want special rights.

That's right.  Religious people want to have special rights to
discriminate.  Just look at the text of the Federal ENDA Act :)

Rod "...of course not!" Swift ;)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Jesus saves?  Not on my salary he doesn't.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Death & Taxes
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:42:06
EID:1cdb 22799540
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337abfe
* On 22-03-97 at 05:12, DAN CEPPA wrote to JOE SHEDLOCK,
on the topic of "Death & Taxes" in echo Holysmoke:

DC>  RS> * Christians have to worry about crossing state borders, where
DC>  RS> their legally valid wills, durable powers of attorney for
DC>  RS> medical care, etc, may not be valid
DC>  RS> Yes, Christians are *REALLY* persecuted in the United States.

DC>  JS> Ok, you've substituted "Christians" for "gays" to make a point,
DC>  JS> or several.

DC> The satire does sting, doesn't it.  Care for some lemon
DC> juice to pour on those cuts?

I left out many more cases.

Rod "...I cannot believe the Christians claim they are MORE
persecuted than Gays!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Arachnohomophobia: Fear of gay spiders

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Oops, Caught Again
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:44:08
EID:6002 22799580
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337ac78
* On 22-03-97 at 12:19, KEN WIENS wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Oops, Caught Again" in echo Holysmoke:

KW>    Yes, I know. Poor Rod only knows how to take a passage here and
KW>    there totally out of its cultural, religious, and biblical
KW>    context and ride it for all its worth.

Strange.  Whenever I hear Christians spew anti-gay rhetoric, they
are always quoting Leviticus.  Why are they being patent liars?

Why are you not condemning their complete bastardisation of the
bible's meaning?

Rod "...thank you for falling in the trap, Christian" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The foolish and dead alone never change their opinion

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Re: Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:52:10
EID:ce1f 22799680
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337ae5a
* On 22-03-97 at 12:29, KEN WIENS wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> CH>So, it's the act itself. What about a heterosexual individual
KW> CH>that, due to circumstances, has only same-sex partners available?
KW> CH>Prison would be the first thing that comes to mind. What about
KW> CH>a homosexual individual that has never had sex at all?

KW>    The New Testament just says those who live such a lifestyle
KW>    will not see the Kingdom of God.

But of course, Paul was talking to others, not US Christians, and
hence we're not under that law.

Example: God *TURNING* Pagans into gays because they refused to
follow him.  What a mean little god!

Rod "...so why do you claim that the NT says things that it
doesn't?" Swift

KW> CH>What is it about the behaviour itself that makes it condemnatory?

KW>    God says it is morally wrong. Both the Old and New Testament
KW>    agree on this matter.

I'm sorry, we're not under those laws due to the salvation of
Jesus' visit to this existence.

BTW, when are you going to start counselling your homohating
bretheren in this fact?

Rod "...you're going to have to try again" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Atheism: A non-prophet organisation

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Re: Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:53:12
EID:f974 227996a0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337ae98
* On 22-03-97 at 13:35, KEN WIENS wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> CH>But you see, I don't have any logical reason to think
KW> CH>that your god construct is anything more than just that:
KW> CH>a construct created in your mind and the minds of all other
KW> CH>believers as a means of avoiding rational thought.

KW>    I feel very sad for you. I hope you come to a knowledge
KW>    of the truth in this matter before it is too late.

I feel very sad for you that you would attempt such a poor guilt
trip, especially on a target who is not susceptible to such
tactics :)

Rod "...poor Ken Whines again" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * He's your God, they're your rules, YOU burn in hell!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Re: ARROGANCE
|Date: 25 Mar 97  18:58:14
EID:8d3e 22799740
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337afc6
* On 22-03-97 at 22:41, GEORGE HARPER wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: ARROGANCE" in echo Holysmoke:

GH>  That is the point of Pascal's Wager...if the odds were any more in
favor
GH>  of one or another, the element of chance is reduced, and every reasonably
GH>  intelligent person (even me) is aware that there is no such thing as
a sure
GH>  bet.   SO: you make your choice and stick with it.

No.  The point of Pascal's Wager, is that there is only good and
no harm from believing.  Not only is this fallacious, but the
reverse is true -- you should believe in every God to hedge your
ecumenical bet.

Pascal's Wager, basically, shows the selfishness of choosing God
for personal, self-serving reasons -- that of salvation.

Pity you if you chose to believe in God solely so you wouldn't
face death.

Rod "...sad and pitiful if you love your life more than you
love your God" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Politics: Poly=many, Ticks=blood-sucking parasites

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Joe Shedlock
|Sub:  Death & Taxes
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:05:16
EID:1a1a 227998a0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b16c
* On 23-03-97 at 07:09, JOE SHEDLOCK wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Death & Taxes" in echo Holysmoke:

JS>  CH> It was probably placed in with the marriage claims. There have
been
JS>  CH> several court cases involving gay couples in which one partner
left
JS>  CH> everything to the other in the will, only to have the family of
the
JS>  CH> deceased come along and challenge the will as invalid.

JS>  Citations to such court cases, please?

I provided a list for you.  :)  Thank you.

JS>  Sorry, Christopher, but that is not true.  Even where there is no will,
JS>  the surviving spouse does not automatically get everything under most
JS>  intestacy laws.

They automatically get *some*.  In some states, it is all.
However, when there IS a will, and the WHOLE and SOLE beneficiary
is the spouse, that is normally carried out due to spousal
privilege.

JS>  Moreover, even if the husband leaves everything to other
JS>  parties in his will, the wife has the right (here in Tennessee) to
take
JS>  *one-third* (not all, not none) of the husband's estate.  This is
JS>  precisely what happened in the case of Conway Twitty's estate.

Yes, this is called provision.  Anyone can challenge a will if it
leaves them destitute and unprovided for as a relative of the
person, most specifically the spouse.  Some are automatically
allowed claims by proportion of will, as identified by you.

However, you've just identified correctly yet another reason for
same-gender marriage, no?

Gay people don't even have that automatic claim for derivative
rights as a relative.

JS>  CH> Except that because of the fact that they're not married, the
JS>  CH> exemption isn't there either.

JS>  That is simply not true, Christopher.  Every decedent's estate gets
JS>  a unified credit equivalent to a $600,000 exemption. Section 2010(a)
JS>  of the Internal Revenue Code provides: "A credit of $192,800 shall
JS>  be allowed to the estate of *EVERY DECEDENT* against the tax imposed
JS>  by section 2001." [Emphasis added.]

Even if this is the case, it still does not meet the challenge
that probate laws do discriminate against gay and lesbian people
by their wills being legally able to be challenged or raided by
the actions of family members.  Please see my post about it.

What good is the first $600,000 of any estate being tax-free if
it is subject to bankruptcy or raiding through legal proceedings?

JS>  This is simply incorrect.  The estate tax is levied on the *estate*,
not
JS>  the surviving spouse, and every estate gets the same credit, equivalent
JS>  to a $600,000 exemption.  See Section 2010(a) quoted above.

And what of the spousal privilege identified by others that
states that the WHOLE value of the estate is tax-free if given
completely to the surviving spouse?

Rod "...does that exist under IRS regulations?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Yahweh (n): not *my* way

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Mark O'Neill
|Sub:  Freedom Of Choice
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:09:18
EID:85dd 22799920
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b25e
* On 22-03-97 at 03:45, MARK O'NEILL wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "FREEDOM OF CHOICE" in echo Holysmoke:

MO>  KY>> How is it clear that no gay person can help being gay?  There
is no
MO>  KY>> evidence supporting this whatsoever.

MO>  RH>> Well, we have the anecdotal evidence from gays and the expert
MO>  RH>> testimony of the APA. How much more do you need?

MO>  KY> You have opinions by gays and the APA.  And there are homosexuals
that
MO>  KY> would disagree with that.

MO> Evidence, dickbrain?

The evidence that he's a dickbrain is self-evidentiary.

The evidence for his claim of course, is not ever going to be
presented.

Rod "...but we've come to expect that :)" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * God is a Vorlon

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Freedom of choice
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:15:20
EID:b86b 227999e0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b3c8
* On 21-03-97 at 17:57, KEN YOUNG wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER,
on the topic of "Freedom of choice" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> KY>Yes, but sadly, the US govt. does not always seem to
KY> KY>care about the law.
KY> KY>In fact, often they seem to be on the side of homosexuals more than
KY> KY>Christians.

KY>  KS> Bullshit.  The country is essentially *run* by Kristians.

KY> Oh?  Then there would be organized prayer in school.

They keep trying to put it back in.  The Courts keep protecting
liberty by taking it out.  See last week's decision in Alabama.

KY>  KS> But that's changing, fortunately.

KY> That changed a long time ago, and the left is getting more
KY> and more control over America all the time.

Oh, and we're *SOOOO* scaaaaaaared!  :)

Rod "...moron!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * That tagline is *true* ---> <--- That tagline is *false*

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Freedom of choice
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:19:22
EID:b86b 22799a60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b4ba
* On 21-03-97 at 17:57, KEN YOUNG wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER,
on the topic of "Freedom of choice" in echo Holysmoke:

KY>  KS> Bullshit.  The country is essentially *run* by Kristians.

KY> Oh?  Then there would be organized prayer in school.

No, they have more important things to do, like removing hell
from the word hello!

___--------------------------------------------------------------------
KINGSVILLE, Texas (Reuter) - Heaven-o, how are you?

It may take some getting used to, but Kleberg County commissioners
have thrown their support behind a local man's campaign to take the
``hell'' out of hello.

County Judge Pete De La Garza said Wednesday that the commissioners
voted unanimously for a resolution urging the use of ``heaven-o''
instead of hello in greetings.

``Is everybody using it? The answer is of course, no. It is a very
new thing and everybody's a little apprehensive,'' De La Garza told
Reuters. ``I suppose it's like everything else, once you get adjusted
to it, you might start using it.''

The idea was spawned by flea market operator Leonoso Canales, who told
the San Antonio Express-News, ``I see hell in hello. It's disguised by
the o, but once you see it, it will slap you in the face.''

Canales, 56, wanted the commissioners to make heaven-o the official
greeting of the county, but De La Garza said the resolution only
supports its optional use. ``We didn't want to get into the separation
of church and state issue,'' he said.

The commissioners gave Canales their support because ``he's a local
guy,'' but their vote ``has nothing to do with anything pious,''
De La Garza said.

Canales believes his campaign will gain momentum now that it has the
weight of officialdom behind it. He now plans to go to Texas Gov.
George W. Bush to propose heaven-o as the state's official greeting.

``I feel we have made history here in Kleberg County and set a new
precedent,'' he said.

The judge said he was not yet accustomed to the new greeting, but
that he was trying, awkwardly, to use it.  ''Heaven-o, sir. Adios,''
he said at the end of the interview.
___--------------------------------------------------------------------

* OLX 2.1 TD * Today's topic: Life is good if you're happy.  Refute.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: Freedom Of Choice
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:20:24
EID:b86b 22799a80
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b4f8
* On 21-03-97 at 18:18, KEN YOUNG wrote to MARTIN GOLDBERG,
on the topic of "RE: FREEDOM OF CHOICE" in echo Holysmoke:

KY>  KY> I won't make a judgement on oral sex, as I am not sure.  But anal
KY>  KY> sex would be very unnatural, yes.

KY>  MG> So, would you like to see laws passed that prohibit
KY>  MG> anal sex between heteros?

KY> Never said I was even for laws against anal sex between homosexuals.
KY> I find it sick and immoral, but it should be legal.

So you are going to join gay people in the next demonstration in
your nearby states about there being sodomy laws, and how they
should be removed?

Maybe you might meet some gay people???  Have a chance to ask if
they chose????

Rod "...oh, damn, I bet you'll say no now :(" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Don't get stuck in a closet.  Wear yourself out.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:21:26
EID:74fa 22799aa0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b536
* On 22-03-97 at 03:40, KEN YOUNG wrote to DAVID WORRELL,
on the topic of "Driving Mr. Daisy" in echo Holysmoke:

KY>  KY> Because the topic came up.  Nothing wrong with that, whatever one's
KY>  KY> sexual preference.  It is  making a point of informing the public
of
KY>  KY> your preference to encourage rights, rights that we all already
have,
KY>  KY> that I am against.

KY>  DW> Really? Homosexuals have the right to marry the partner
KY>  DW> of their choice where you live? Amazing.

KY> Sure, they do.  They just can't have state sanctioned marriages.

And why not?  I thought America was the land of the free?

Rod "...guess not as free as, say, The Netherlands" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Christians wanted, apply at Perth Zoo's lion cage

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Freedom of choice
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:25:28
EID:b86b 22799b20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b628
* On 22-03-97 at 17:26, KEN YOUNG wrote to KAREN DAVIS,
on the topic of "Freedom of choice" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> But if it wasn't a choice, wouldn't they want to switch?

It's not a choice, though.  And the idea of being "changed" from
something I am is so repulsive that it is the only thing this
side of being slayed by a religious zealot.

KY> If they don't choose that way, then that tells me they are
KY> trapped in that sexual preference.

Trapped?  No.  We were granted it by the grace of your God!
Praise your God for homosexuality, Ken!  :)  That's what you
fear!

KY> KD> And if the positions are so awkward, why do straight couples use
them
KY> KD> frequently? Or have you done nothing other than missionary position
with
KY> KD> your partners?

KY> I have no idea why they have anal sex, not do any of the
KY> heterosexuals I know.

It's so nice that you like to pry into the private sexual
practices of your heterosexual friends.

KY> The best answer I have been able to
KY> get is that some have masochistic tendencies.

Sadomasochism does not equal anal sex, dear boy.

KY> I do not know what all I will do, but I can safely say that
KY> anal sex won't be one of them.

Suuuuuure.

Rod "...we'll just forget about that experience of yours you had
as a child with your local priest, who obviously fucked your life
up completely that you must be so hateful and resentful of
consenting adults" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Physicist: An atom's way of knowing about atoms!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Re: Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:28:30
EID:ce1f 22799b80
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337b6de
* On 22-03-97 at 12:29, KEN WIENS wrote to CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
on the topic of "Re: Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> CH>What is it about the behaviour itself that makes it condemnatory?

KW>    God says it is morally wrong. Both the Old and New Testament
KW>    agree on this matter.

I don't believe in your myth.  Why should I be subjected to
laws enacted in a supposedly secular society that belong to and
stem from a deathcult in which I do not believe?

Rod "...why can't Christians just choose not to buttfuck, huh?" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Ken Young: Poster ch
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:51:32
EID:a6da 22799e60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337bc44
* On 22-03-97 at 12:42, KEN WIENS wrote to DAVID RICE,
on the topic of "Ken Young: Poster child" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> DR>They were obviously too stupid to know what they were
KW> DR>talking about. "Ex-homosexual." Sheeeesh!

KW>    On the contrary, they knew exactly what they were
KW>    talking about. Your comments were nothing but
KW>    pure stupidity.

Of course, the real truth about "curing ministries"
can be found by a heterosexual journalist's delving into the
Exodus Cult.

Read Elizabeth Gilbert's report in Spin Magazine (June 1995 or is
it June 1996?) entitled "Queer and Loathing".

Here's a review.

___-----------------------------------------------------------------
An obsession for "objectivity" has often lead reporters away from
the facts -- if not the truth.  In an effort to report objectively on
issues of public controversy, journalists bend toward a banal "quote
vs. quote" style.  This is especially so when it comes to covering
certain "gay issues."

Mr. Fundamentalist Christian said:  "Homosexuals can be cured."  But
said Ms. Gay Rights Activist:  "No, they can't."

Missing from such journalism is any sense of the reporter's
PROFESSIONAL evaluation of source credibility.  Dueling opinions
about homosexuality are treated not simply as if they were morally
equal arguments -- but as if they were FACTUALLY equivalent statements
as well.

Elizabeth Gilbert's "Queer and Loathing" is a welcome exception.  This
feature story, which appears in the June issue of "SPIN" magazine,
offers a caviling account of the reporter's visit to a week-long
convention of Exodus International -- a group for "recovering"
homosexuals.

Exodus was founded 20 years ago -- "making it the same age as the
psychiatric community's consensus that homosexuality is not a
disorder," Gilbert notes.  Currently, the organization operates a
"central office" in California and boasts "numerous branches across
America, Asia, and Europe."

Gilbert neatly sums up the group's method and madness:  "Exodus
rhetoric avoids the word 'cure,' preferring quasi-therapeutic '90s
terms like 'redeem' and 'recover' instead.  Essentially, the Voyage
Out of homosexuality is both a Miracle and a Long Process of many
Growth Stages.  The Sexually Challenged are Redeemed by Sharing and
Disclosing Struggles, and then passing through Recovery.  However,
there is always a Risk of a Fall, by returning to the Lifestyle.  If
a Relapse should occur, the Ex-Gay becomes a Former Ex-Gay, although
he can always try to Re-Recover and become Ex-Gay again."

Quickly, Gilbert rejects any claims to a credible social-scientific
basis for such "recoveries."  On the "concept of curing
homosexuality," she quotes U.C.  Davis psychologist Gregory Herek
who -- "summarizing the consensus of his peers" --  deems the notion
"absolutely absurd."

"It's understood today that telling homosexuals they can and should
change inflicts great psychological harm," says Herek.  "It's
frankly unethical."

Gilbert herself takes on a paragon of immorality -- quack
psychologist Joseph Nicolosi.  Nicolosi is the author of "Reparative
Therapy of Male Homosexuality" (which Herek describes as "a work of
impressively poor scholarship") and founder of the "National
Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality."  NARTH
functions as something of a "think [sic] tank" for organizations
like Exodus (and is a frequent source of homophobic misinformation
in the media).

Homosexuality is "a developmental disorder...  caused by the father,"
Nicolosi told Gilbert.  So, she asked:  "Would you say that every
homosexual on Earth had a hurtful relationship with his father?"
"Of course," Nicolosi replied.

When pressed to explain further, Nicolosi gave an answer Gilbert
sarcastically describes as "a triumph of imagination, if perhaps not
of science."  "You will hear a shallowness in the voice of any
homosexual who claims to love and respect his father," Nicolosi said.
"On the other hand, when the straight man talks lovingly about his
father, you will hear a richness in his voice."

After dispatching with Nicolosi, Gilbert focuses -- for several
pages -- on deconstructing a painful absurdity that runs through the
seminars, literature and membership of Exodus International.
"Unsurprisingly, Exodus leaders are not impressed by the currents of
professional opinion.  As one counselor bragged, 'My only
qualification for being here is that I am a B.A.  And that stands
for Born Again!'"

"Loneliness and isolation are not discouraged by Exodus," Gilbert
explains.  "One seminar class called 'Being Single and Happy' was
described in the program notes thusly:  'If the single life was good
enough for Jesus, it may be good enough for you!'"

Among several of the first-hand experiences recounted by Gilbert:
"At lunch on the second day, an ex-lesbian named Carol told me she'd
run into her ex-lesbian ex-lover in the cafeteria.  'I didn't know
she was here!' Carol shared.  'The temptation was great, but Jesus
stood between us and prevented a relapse.'"

"My guess is that two millennia ago Jesus had no idea he would ever
have to stand between Carol and her ex-girlfriend in a San Diego
cafeteria," Gilbert quips.

Other convention seminars included "Relapse Prevention," "My Husband
is No Longer Homosexual, So Why Am I So Miserable?," and "Misandry--
The Hatred of Men."  "Exodus teaches that men often become gay
because the feminist movement has taught women to strip men of their
God-given masculine power," Gilbert reveals.

Beyond the obvious conclusion -- that "cures" promote misery, sexism
and homophobia -- Gilbert speculates that Exodus can be, at best, an
unintentional stepping-stone for the deeply-repressed.  A
(relatively) independent audit of the files of 800 Exodus members
revealed no absolute cures.  "Disillusioned members usually leave
the organization for an openly gay life," she says.

However, "not everyone survives the intense personal guild of
failure." Noting at least one Exodus-induced suicide, Gilbert also
exposes the hypocrisy -- and real hatred -- that rots at the heart
of all "change ministries."

"Who taught Exodus members all this guilt?," she asks.  "The week's
testimonies revealed surprisingly persistent patterns of childhood
trauma.  It was incredible how many speakers had been molested,
beaten, or neglected as children....  They spoke of suicide
attempts and double lives.  They spoke of families, coworkers, and
congregations turning on them...."

"No wonder they wanted a change," Gilbert concludes.  "They never
needed cures for their sexual orientation.  They needed cures for
their lousy lives."

What they needed -- what we all need -- are more CURES FOR
HOMOPHOBIA.  Reporting effectively on the search for such cures
must become a priority in mainstream journalists.  For in many
ways, reporting IS the search itself.
>>> Continued to next message

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Ken Young: Poster chi 2/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:51:34
EID:1198 22799e60
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337bc46
>>> Continued from previous message
****  ACTION/OPTIONS:  Send compliments and comments to Elizabeth
Gilbert, Staff Writer, and Christy Goldfinch, Managing Editor,
"SPIN," 6 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, tel. 212-633-8200,
fax 212-633-9041, e-mail spinonline@aol.com.  Letters intended for
publication should be directed to "Attn: Point Blank," at the same
address (include sender's "full name, address and phone number for
verification").

Re/Sources:  Objectivity is the subject of innumerable commentaries.
In "The Mass Media--Opposing Viewpoints" (St. Paul:  Greenhaven Press;
N. Bernards and T. Modl, editors), journalist Jack Newfield takes the
(as yet) uncommon position:  "The point is not to equate objectivity
with truth.  It was objective to quote Joe McCarthy during the 1950s;
it was the truth to report that most of what he had to say was
unfounded slander....  The goal for all journalists should be to come
as close to complex truth as humanly possible.  But the truth does not
always reside exactly in the middle.  Truth is not the square root of
two balanced quotes.  I don't believe I should be 'objective' about
racism, or the tax loopholes for the rich....  Certain facts are not
morally neutral."

Additional contacts:  American Psychological Association, Committee
on Lesbian and Gay Concerns, 750 First Street N.E., Washington, DC
20002-4241, tel. 202-336-6052, http://www.apa.org/; Fundamentalists
Anonymous (an organization which "helps individuals trying to leave
aggressively domineering fundamentalist churches"), P.O. Box 20324,
Greeley Square Station, New York, NY 10001, tel. 212-696-0420;
Gregory M. Herek, PhD (Associate Research Psychologist at UC Davis),
P.O. Box 11196, Berkeley, CA 94701.
___-----------------------------------------------------------------

KW> DR>If someone no longer "engage(s) in homosexual acts," how
KW> DR>does that make that person an "ex-homosexual?"

KW>    Very simple. They no longer engage in homosexual acts.

However, they all still have the feelings.  They're just celibate
at best, or dead at worst.

See the review above:  "Disillusioned members usually leave the
organisation for an openly gay life."

The facts are plain, as provided by a number of groups that have
researched the outcomes of the hategroups like Exodus.  From some
reports, of every 100 participants in gay curing programs,
20 commit suicide inside the program, or within 1 year of the
program being ended.  A further 20 commit suicide within five
years of leaving the cult after not accepting the brainwashing
inside the cult.  57 survive and leave the cult unconverted or
unsaved or have reform themselves to be very shattered and
messed-up gay people due to the cult indoctrination and brain-
washing.  The remaining 3 in 100 are celibate bisexuals, some of
whom are paraded around as "model heterosexuals", some of whom
are bisexuals who can choose to modify their behaviour easily,
etc, etc.

And to think that the stablemate to Exodus -- Love In Action --
advocates suicide if they can't repent.  I've posted quotes from
their leader to that effect.  If you need them reposted, I can.

Rod "...sad to think the failure rate is 97%.  Sadder to think
that 1 in 5 die because they are told that God hates them.  Do
you see the blood on your hands, fool?" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Mark O'Neill
|Sub:  Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:53:36
EID:494c 22799ea0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337bcc0
* On 22-03-97 at 00:53, MARK O'NEILL wrote to MARY SMITH,
on the topic of "DRIVING MR. DAISY" in echo Holysmoke:

MO>  KY> Check out the gay marches or rallies that have been shown on th

MO>  MS> Shouldn't this be in GAYLINK?

MO> Shouldn't you be in church somewhere being labotomised? Fuck off, you
MO> silly cow.

Straight up.  To the point.  Effective.  I like it.

Rod "...praise Jesus for her lobotomy!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Exemplifying examples 1/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  19:56:38
EID:5ed0 22799f00
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337bd76
* On 21-03-97 at 18:00, KEN YOUNG wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER,
on the topic of "Exemplifying examples 1/" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> KY>I know several gays and bis that have told me that
KY> KY>they chose that way.  Seem
KY> KY>like I run into more all the time that think this way

KY>  KS> I asked you before for some names.  You never provided any.  It
is
KY>  KS> obvious you are a lying fuck.

KY> No, rather, I have some decency, and it isn't exactly right
KY> to talk about that, using names, on a net for everyone to see.

Ok, so be honest enough to explain why you have ignored my
testimony, and Christopher's testimony, as "us not knowing we
actually chose".

Did you make this claim to every other gay person you've met?
Have you dismissed their personal testimony for your own bias?

Where is your research independence?
Why do you provide no evidence?

Why are you a joke to all rational people?

Either be honest and admit you are dispensing with the testimony
of REAL gay people who KNOW they never made any active choice
whatsoever and ADMIT your bias -- or remain a proven liar.

Rod "...you are debunked" Swift

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:08:40
EID:ce1f 2279a100
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c048
* On 22-03-97 at 12:24, KEN WIENS wrote to ROGER HUNTER,
on the topic of "Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> KW>God can and has changed lives of those who turned to
KW> KW>Him for help and redemption. For those who put their
KW> KW>trust in the Lord He gives them the strength and
KW> KW>in time the desire to live within the parameters He
KW> KW>has set for all of us. You don't have that trust and
KW> KW>so you don't have a clue.

KW> RH>Oh nonsense. Gays say it's not a choice and so does the APA.
KW> RH>And thousands of gay Christians say you are full of it too.

KW>    Some gays may say it's not a choice. Not all gays.

Wrong.  96% of gay people say, in broad, longitudinal studies,
say they never chose their sexual orientation.  That number rises
to 98% for those who misunderstand the question to mean sexual
activity.

This is correlative and similar to the results in other people --
bisexual and heterosexual people.

KW>    The APA just bowed to political pressure from gays.

Wrong.  The APA reviewed their theories on the formation and
understanding of sexual orientation after many years of concerted
efforts among the psychological community to promote false data
to suggest homosexuality was a problem.

All the researchers involved with the work to revise the APA's
policy in 1973 were all heterosexual -- one, specifically, Evelyn
Hooker who died last year, bless her soul.  Her studies started
in the late 1950s.

I can't believe you actually fell for this common lie of the
religious right.  It's almost as notorious as "gays recruiting
children".

From the APA's leaflet describing their position statement on
homosexuality...

___-------------------------------------------------------------------
Q: Is homosexuality a mental illness or emotional problem?

A: No.  Psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health
professionals agree that homosexuality is not an illness,
mental disorder or emotional problem.  Much objective
scientific research over the past 35 years shows us that
homosexual orientation, in and of itself, is not associated
with emotional or social problems.

Homosexuality was thought to be a mental illness in the past
because mental health professionals and society had biased
information about homosexuality since most studies only
involved lesbians and gay men in therapy.  When researchers
examined data about gay people who were not in therapy, the
idea that homosexuality was a mental illness was found to be
untrue.

In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association confirmed the
importance of the new research by removing the term
"homosexuality" from the official manual that lists all
mental and emotional disorders.  In 1975 the American
Psychological Association passed a resolution supporting
this action.  Both associations urge all mental health
professionals to help dispel the stigma of mental illness
that some people still associate with homosexual orientation.
Since the original declassification of homosexuality as a
mental disorder, this decision has subsequently been
reaffirmed by additional research findings and both
associations.
___-------------------------------------------------------------------

KW>    They did not arrive at these conclusions because of objective
KW>    scientific analysis. Far from it.

Far from it, huh?  Really?  See above.  Did you know the research
was well underway in the 60s.

If there were a political agenda behind it, and the gay rights
movement *WAS* alive in the 60s, you could have expected gays to
have been lobbying psychologists as SOON as the first results
came out in the 60s.

It's also why the raw data even shows you to be wrong?  Which is
why trying to repair homosexuality fails invariably -- both
clinically and in church-based repair programs?

The fact that the research which started the APA's policy was
debunked by further findings?

Here's the reference to the "aversion/shock therapy" treatment
advice

Feldman MP, MacCulloch MJ.  The application of anticipatory
avoidance learning to the treatment of homosexuality: Theory,
treatment and preliminary results 1965;2:165-183.

(This one is pretty frightening; a shock device is illustrated)

You may then want to read these references, especially the one
covering the 15 years since declassification by the APA.

Haldeman DC.  The practice and ethics of sexual orientation
conversion therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology 1994;62:221-227.

McConaghy N, Armstrong MS, Blaszczynski A.  Controlled
comparison of aversive therapy and convert sensitization in
compulsive homosexuality.  Behaviour Research and Therapy
1981;19:425-434.

Morin SF, Rothblum ED.  Removing the stigma: Fifteen years of
progress.  American Psychologist 1991;46:947-949.

Weinrich JD, Snyder PJ, Pillard RC, Grant I, Jacobson DL,
Robinson SR, McCutchan JA.  A factor analysis of the Klein
Sexual Orientation Grid in two disparate samples.  Archives
of Sexual Behavior 1993;22:157-168.

The Journal of Homosexuality has also had some excellent articles, including
one reviewing all the various historical techniques used.  A 1982 book
edited by Hetrick has a collection of a chapters on then-current techniques,
explaining why they don't work.

Rod "...of course, you could always ask the APA.  They are on the
web" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Joe Shedlock
|Sub:  Death & Taxes
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:11:42
EID:1a1a 2279a160
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c0fe
* On 22-03-97 at 20:20, JOE SHEDLOCK wrote to JUDITH BANDSMA,
on the topic of "Death & Taxes" in echo Holysmoke:

JS>  Wills are only invalidated under specific legal grounds.  The vast
JS>  majority of rulings by judges are appealable to a higher court.
JS>  I'd like to see some evidence for the claims you are making. In fact,
JS>  that was basically my question to Rod, if he knew of any documentation
JS>  of such alleged practices.

I have provided over 16 citations.

There are cases of families claiming that gay relationships are
"undue influence" and have attempted to invalidate wills.

And who cares if the family fails.  They can sue the recipient
or the estate to try and destroy any possible beneficiary from
getting anything.

Rod "...please read my post.  It *IS* happening" Swift.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  Staal stinks a little lo
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:14:44
EID:6eb2 2279a1c0
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* On 22-03-97 at 05:30, DAN CEPPA wrote to JIM STAAL,
on the topic of "Staal stinks a little low" in echo Holysmoke:

DC>  DC> evidence, Jimbo.  Case name, dates, venue would be good
DC>  DC> for starters.

DC>  JS> A very public case. Was in all the papers.

DC> Then, Jimbo, you shouldn't have a hard time about providing
DC> the information to do a search on that, will you.

Didn't you read my post debunking him AND citing the court
findings?

The kid was male, and never even saw mummy "licking the citty
kat" :)

Rod "...so much for the ever-informing and erudite Staal to lie
for his little Godling's sake :)" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Politics: Poly=many, Ticks=blood-sucking parasites

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Dan Ceppa
|Sub:  J.J. needs to be Hitt
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:15:46
EID:b4d0 2279a1e0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c1f2
* On 22-03-97 at 12:27, DAN CEPPA wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "J.J. needs to be Hitt" in echo Holysmoke:

DC> ... Don't forget, next Wednesday is Virgin Sacrifice Day!

Christians!!!  Remember to bring along your saviour's mother!! :) :)

Rod "...had to be said :)" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * If Jesus loves me, why does he never send flowers?

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Re: Educational Experien
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:22:48
EID:b695 2279a2c0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c398
* On 22-03-97 at 22:41, GEORGE HARPER wrote to BECKE BOYER,
on the topic of "RE: EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENC" in echo Holysmoke:

GH>  GH>     Accounts in the Bible, which I am convinced is infallible.
If you
GH>  GH>     have evidence to the contrary, present it.

GH>  BB> How many legs do grasshoppers have, George?

GH> Not having had interest enough to check, I don't know.   I also
GH> don't know what relevance that number has to my claim of infallibility
GH> of the Bible...care to show the link?

Why don't you go get a book, look up a grasshopper, and count the
legs in the picture.  Then compare with the four-legged ones in
the bible.

Then again, the earth really is flat and has four winds :)

Rod "...still claim your bible is *infallible*?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Psychic convention cancelled due to unforeseen problems

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   George Harper
|Sub:  Re: Arrogance
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:25:50
EID:8d3e 2279a320
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c44e
* On 22-03-97 at 22:41, GEORGE HARPER wrote to BECKE BOYER,
on the topic of "RE: ARROGANCE" in echo Holysmoke:

GH>    I am charged by my God to be concerned about the spiritual welfare
of
GH>    all, as are all Christians.

We thank you for your concern, but we reject you.  Please leave.
Matthew 10:11-15.

Yes, we know of our alleged coming damnation that will be worse
than Sodom and Gomorrah.  Thank you.

Rod "...bye!  Don't let the door slam your ass on the way out!
:)" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Gun Control: The ability to drop a fundie at 500 yards

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   J.J. Hitt
|Sub:  Anti-Murder Activity
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:30:52
EID:fc7a 2279a3c0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c57c
* On 21-03-97 at 11:32, J.J. HITT wrote to DAVID RAGLAND,
on the topic of "Anti-Murder Activity" in echo Holysmoke:

JH>  DR> The national effort is dubbed "God Is Going Back To School" and
JH>  DR> represents a major change in focus for the OR group.  In the
JH>  DR> past, Operation Rescue has centered its protests on abortion
JH>  DR> clinics Planned Parenthood offices, using blockages, sit-ins and
JH>  DR> other forms of civil disobedience.  Our prayers are needed to
JH>  DR> assist these Christian soldiers.  Let's get to it!

JH>  You mean you're going to start shooting teachers
JH>  as well as doctors?

And the students whose knowledge and education on how to protect
themselves from disease and pregnancy has been destroyed by their
intervention in education programmes.

And since the pregnant teens are going to get abortions -- why
not let the baby go down with the ship, eh?

Rod "...tongue in cheek!" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The universe's most common elements: Hydrogen & Stupidity

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Karen Davis
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:36:56
EID:0812 2279a480
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c6e8
* On 20-03-97 at 18:38, KAREN DAVIS wrote to KEN WIENS,
on the topic of "Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KD>  KW>    You hold on. I maintained and still maintain that the
KD>  KW>    ONLY situation in which an abortion is justified is
KD>  KW>    to save the life of the mother. Outside that those
KD>  KW>    who do so should have a fair trial and if found guilty
KD>  KW>    executed.

KD> And a 12 year old victim of incestuous rape does not fall under your
KD> category of "life."

It's a trade off.  They die, but the fags live because they're
too chicken to carry out the commandment of their god in
Leviticus 20:13 -- even though there's nothing about abortion in
the bible whatsoever.

Rod "...how typical" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Rutabaga: Lord of the vegies

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Lunatic Buttfucks
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:43:58
EID:6a2b 2279a560
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c88e
* On 22-03-97 at 12:22, KEN WIENS wrote to ROGER HUNTER,
on the topic of "Lunatic Buttfucks" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> RH>The difference is, while neither of us have done such, you
KW> RH>advocate yours while I only want mine legally permissable.

KW>    Well, I want mine legal also. I want the legal system to
KW>    recognize the seriousness of killing unborn children. I
KW>    want those who would contemplate such an act to realize
KW>    if they do so it just might cost them their lives also.
KW>    But I want it all accomplished via legal means. I won't
KW>    have any part in blowing up clinics, shooting doctors,
KW>    etc. etc. in spite of what some bozos say in this
KW>    Conference.

So you would ask for this secular state to allow the terrorism to
become legal.

Why should women have to live by your tyrannical system in terror?
What of those who don't believe in your version of the Christian
God, or any god, huh?

I've got an idea.  Since women can be the ONLY informed people in
this issue...

Rod "...why don't we do the democratic thing, and let the women
decide by referendum?" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * The foolish and dead alone never change their opinion

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  20:46:00
EID:ce1f 2279a5c0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337c908
* On 22-03-97 at 13:13, KEN WIENS wrote to KAREN DAVIS,
on the topic of "Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KW> KW>How many babies who would have had normal human lives
KW> KW>otherwise did you abort during my sabbatical?

KW> KD>None, obviously, as you don't abort a baby. You abort
KW> KD>an embryo or fetus.

KW>    Same difference, same result: a baby was denied a
KW>    normal life, any kind of a life because of the act
KW>    of abortion.

No, an unviable foetus was given the chance of life, and failed
to survive after being removed from the uterus.

Rod "...simple scientific fact" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Re: Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:16:02
EID:ce1f 2279aa00
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337d012
* On 22-03-97 at 16:28, KEN WIENS wrote to QUENTIN FAI,
on the topic of "Re: Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KW>    The child has every bit as much rights after as before. That
KW>    is the way it should be. As to welfare for poor mothers: I
KW>    am all for it.

... except if they're unwed teen mothers?

Are you for an earlier solution to that HETEROSEXUAL problem?
Are you for a compulsory, disease control and pregnancy education
program?

If not, your position is also worthless.

Rod "...I'm all for complete education, and an informed choice."
Swift

* OLX 2.1 TD * It's great to be from a Christian Family.  Far From!

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  Re: Accepting Reality
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:18:04
EID:ce1f 2279aa40
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337d08c
* On 22-03-97 at 16:32, KEN WIENS wrote to QUENTIN FAI,
on the topic of "Re: Accepting Reality" in echo Holysmoke:

KW>    in the real world for my causes: active member of the
KW>    Christian Coalition, the Religious Right, etc. etc.

Do you subscribe to the Christian Coalition position on teen
mothers on welfare?  I thought you weren't for punishing teenage
mothers in poverty with *complete destitution*.

Isn't it so noble that you're for the saving of unborn foetuses
only to have them born into abject poverty.

I thought you wanted to advance America, not put it into
third-world abject poverty and health conditions.

KW>    There are millions of us with a lot of political and
KW>    financial clout. We are out there and we are doing
KW>    all we can to advance what we believe in.

Including the denial of equal rights for gays, women, minorities,
and non-Christians, no less!

Rod "...what an agenda of love and tolerance.  Jesus must be
proud" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Diplomacy: Saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Wiens
|Sub:  J.J. Needs To Be
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:29:06
EID:0441 2279aba0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337d322
* On 22-03-97 at 16:53, KEN WIENS wrote to FREDRIC RICE,
on the topic of "J.J. Needs To Be" in echo Holysmoke:

KW>  >Not hardly. As Dr. Ronald H. Nash observes:
KW>  >"Allegations of an early Christian dependence on
KW>  >Mithraism have been rejected on many grounds. Mithraism

KW> FR>Ah, yes.  The apologeticists without any discernable
KW> FR>credentials come out of the woodwork to deny the origins of
KW> FR>their own death cult.

KW>    No. The apologist with very discernable and verifiable
KW>    credentials coming out of the woodwork to present the
KW>    historical truth on the matter. Dr. Nash holds the
KW>    PhD. from Syracuse University, at the time of the
KW>    writing of the work in question was Head of the
KW>    Department of Philosophy at Western Kentucky University
KW>    and Director of graduate studies in philosophy and
KW>    religion at the same university.

Dr John Boswell held two theological degrees, and says that the
Christian church had same-gender union ceremonies until the 17th
century, and, further, that there is nothing against homosexual
relationships in the bible.

KW>    Now, I challenge you to refute what Dr. Nash has to say
KW>    in detail from the existing historical and archaeological
KW>    evidence.

I challenge you to refute what Dr Boswell says about
homosexuality being 100% ok and condoned by Christianity based on
theological evidence and his proficiency in biblical
interpretation.

Rod "...thank you for providing 'argument ad authoritarian' as a
possible method of attack" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Person+delusion=psychosis.  People+delusion=religion.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Exemplifying examples 1/
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:32:08
EID:5ed0 2279ac00
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337d3d8
* On 21-03-97 at 18:00, KEN YOUNG wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER,
on the topic of "Exemplifying examples 1/" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> KY>I know several gays and bis that have told me that
KY> KY>they chose that way.  Seem
KY> KY>like I run into more all the time that think this way

KY>  KS> I asked you before for some names.  You never provided any.  It
is
KY>  KS> obvious you are a lying fuck.

KY> No, rather, I have some decency, and it isn't exactly right
KY> to talk about that, using names, on a net for everyone to
KY> see.

Doesn't change the fact you are a LYING FUCK.  You have
CONSISTENTLY lied about gay people, their lives, their loves,
their relationships, and their morality.

You are a LYING FUCK, Ken.

I was prepared to offer you the chance to provide evidence, and
remain within the rules of debate on this issue, but it is clear
you fail to provide any evidence.

Since you will not, it means I can play hard and fast.

You are a lying fuck.

You are a consistent, unrepentant, lying fuck.

I will continue to repeat this charge until you decide to provide
some evidence for what you claim, or retract the whole lot of it
and admit that you have no evidence whatsoever and that you
indeed did lie.

Rod "...remember, Ken, you are a lying fuck.  Start providing
citiations, or remain a lying fuck" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * Today's topic: Life is good if you're happy.  Refute.

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Hypocritical people
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:41:10
EID:d0bc 2279ad20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337d5f6
* On 21-03-97 at 18:03, KEN YOUNG wrote to SUE ALEXANDER,
on the topic of "Hypocritical people" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> Not really.  HAve I claimed to have evidence of
KY> Creationism?  Nope.  It's probably there, but I have not
KY> claimed to have any evidence of this.  But those that
KY> believe in Evolution have claimed that there is evidence.

You've claimed there's evidence that gays choose, can change
readily, are immoral, are sick, choose subconsciously, choose
because they are traumatised, choose because they are intimidated
by life.

Please, provide your evidence, LYING FUCK.

Rod "...thank you" Swift :)

* OLX 2.1 TD * ...Pro-life?  Then what are you doing about TOBACCO?

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Reading Incomprehension
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:46:12
EID:b59a 2279adc0
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* On 21-03-97 at 23:50, KEN YOUNG wrote to GLEN TODD,
on the topic of "READING INCOMPREHENSION" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> There has been no time, since Adam and Eve, that all of
KY> mankind followed God.  If they did, there would be no
KY> reason for it to be allowed, as earth would be a paradise.

Sounds like a pretty good thing.  Why doesn't V'ger fix the
carbon units so they obey?

Rod "...it'd be a nice thing!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  clones
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:47:14
EID:73ff 2279ade0
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337d762
* On 22-03-97 at 16:17, KEN YOUNG wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER,
on the topic of "clones" in echo Holysmoke:

KY> AG>I have no idea what impact cloning humans could have on Christianity.

KY>  KS> It sure has got a lot of the fundies shorts in a bunch.

KY> Christians aren't the only ones that are concerned with
KY> this.  I would think anyone should.

Why?  Cloning is completely natural and occurs in nature very
very often!

Rod "...don't you see monozygotal multiple-births?" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Richard Smith
|Sub:  Reading Incomprehensi
|Date: 25 Mar 97  21:57:16
EID:95eb 2279af20
MSGID: 3:690/660.0 3337d9bc
* On 19-03-97 at 23:54, RICHARD SMITH wrote to KEN YOUNG,
on the topic of "Reading Incomprehensi" in echo Holysmoke:

RS>  ky> Yes, and tests also showed NutraSweet to be harmful as
RS>  ky> well.  But seeing how we do not use common sense, guess
RS>  ky> they chose to ignore those tests.

RS>  I'm sorry you don't use common sense, Ken.  Your loss, of
RS>  course.  BTW, please cite these alleged tests.  Medical
RS>  journal name, date, issue, and page number should be
RS>  sufficient.

Meanwhile, he may want to run the journal citation of the "Gays
choose to be gay because of NutraSweet" article -- it's bound to
be his next "theory" on it all.

Rod "...ho ho ho!" Swift :)

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|From: Rod Swift
|To:   Steve Quarrella
|Sub:  Ken Young: Poster child
|Date: 25 Mar 97  22:06:18
EID:6f7d 2279b0c0
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* On 23-03-97 at 20:50, STEVE QUARRELLA wrote to DAN CEPPA,
on the topic of "Ken Young: Poster child" in echo Holysmoke:

SQ>  SS>> O.K., fundie, what if a group of us decided that ritualized
SQ>  SS>> cannibalism by way of eating the body of christ and drinking his
blood
SQ>  SS>> was a threat to decency?

SQ> We have a billboard out on I-30 for a local church,
SQ> depicting some kind of sicko rubber stamp that says "Paid
SQ> in Full," and blood drips from the thing. When someone
SQ> wants to holler about how offended they are about violence,
SQ> I'm bringing this one up.

This is Must See Billboard I see ;)

Rod "....can't wait to scoot along I-30 to find it :) :)" Swift

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   George L. Harper
|Sub:  Re: Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 23 Mar 97  13:33:28
EID:ecc1 22776c20
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CH>> Then why is it that under "don't ask, don't tell," the number of
CH>> discharges for homosexuality has gone UP, and now down?
>
> because, true to form, the gays haven't yet learned that THAT policy
> applies to THEM???   Maybe they feel that it means don't ask the
> suspected gay about it, and don't tell on him if you find out? 

I hate to tell you, but the "Don't ask" part means exactly that. Military
personnel are not permitted to ask the sexual orientation of other military
personnel. And, in case you'd forgotten, there's a third part of the rule:
"Don't persue." That is, if one member does find out the sexual orientation
of another member, he's to do nothing about it. Of course, there's "Don't
tell," but I think if you investigate the actual case histories of the
discharges, you'll find that they _didn't_ tell. They were found out, and
other officers investigated the matter.

CH>> Did you read the text of CO2? It specifically removed the clauses 
CH>> governing banning descriminiation based on sexual orientation from
CH>> all city ordinances and further denied homosexuals (but not
CH>> heterosexuals) from the right to seek redress of grievances for
CH>> such discrimination.
CH>> 
CH>> I suggest that the next time you propose to have read something, you

CH>> read it

> Why bother to ask?  You presume that because I agreed with it that meant
> I hadn't read it?   What the amendment implied was that there was no need
> for such clauses and laws, because of prior civil rights legislation
> already warranting such redress...including the sexual harassment laws...

And it was found by the US Supreme Court, not that the legislation was 
warranted, but that CO2 violated the rights of a suspect class: homosexuals.
It specifically removed from them the right to seek redress of grievances,
which violates the Bill of Rights. 

> Another point, because you raised it:  are you implying that some gay
> employers would stoop to the level of us straights, and discriminate
> against some guy who refused their advances?  How shocking...but you
> wouldn't object to such discrimination, would you...it would "serve
> them right", correct? 

Actually, no. It wouldn't "serve them right" because I oppose any such
discrimination. I do, however, think that it's ironic that it takes such
a suggest for most straights to recognise that there's an inequity. In
short, it was this sort of discrimination that CO2 would have permitted,
except that it only stopped homosexuals for suing over it. Under CO2, if
this had happened, any heterosexual that got fired could've sued, but any
homosexual that got fired couldn't. See the point?

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   George L. Harper
|Sub:  Re: How about 1-on-1?
|Date: 23 Mar 97  13:49:50
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CH>> TOPIC:
CH>> Resolved: That the Christian belief system depends upon the axiom "The
CH>>           Christian God exists."

> A lot of semantics, saying to me: "no matter what arguments you present,
> since they are within `the system' they are not true `outside the system'


Not precisely. A closer translation would be "any argument you present that
depends on the existence of the Christian God as a premise is false outside
the system." If you can show something that holds under Christianity that
doesn't require the existence of God to be true, then it is quite possibly
true outside of Christianity as well.

> A clever attempt at entrapment, and a well-defined example of 
> circumlocution (talking AROUND the subject, for the uninitiate)...
> evidently Christopher has taken some exercises in semantics, as well...


Just how am I talking around the subject? I presented you with a debate
topic, which you misunderstood, and a background for that topic. If you
are claiming that I'm trying to baffle you, then see above. What I am
presenting you is a quite valid LD topic.

> ALSO for those unfamiliar with the area of semantics:  What follows is
> merely an exchange of cleverly-worded meaningless dialogue, with neither
> side admitting success or defeat...in short - we're just wasting your
> reading time...

I doubt anyone would be wasting their time reading this; your attempts
at backing out of your challenge are most amusing.

> Surley you jest...you said yourself, in the quote from your post, that
> anything dependent on an axiom within the system has no value outside
> the system, or at best questionable value.   What re you expecting me
> to respond to???  The resolution or the fallacy of the axiom that the
> belief system depends on the quoted axiom?   I Know...how about I
> respond to both!!! 

I was expecting you to respond to the resolution itself. If you disagree
with any point made in the background, however, you are most certainly
free to call that out as well.

> 1:  The statement that Christianity depends on the axiom that God exists
> is blatantly wrong.   The belief system hinges on the individual's
> acceptance of a historic event...the crucifixion of Christ...as spiritually
> effective or significant, and that same individual's response to that
> sacrifice, for such is it named.

A) There is no demonstratable evidence to suggest that that event was
historic.
B) Granting A) for the moment, in order for the crucifixion of Christ to

be spiritually effective or significant, then the Christian God must 
first exist. The affirmative position stands.

> Once one accepts that sacrifice as a given, it then follows that the events

> and statements causing, or leading up to that sacrifice, as well as the
> claims made by the One sacrificed must be given credence. 

Again, see above. For the sacrifice to be meaningful, the existence of the
Christian God must be acceped as axiomatic. The affirmative position stands.

> 2. Because we had yet to begin our discussion, nothing could have been

> resolved, thereby giving the lie to your entire resolution. In order to
> make your choice of topic valid, you should have stated it as a proposal.
> Since you stated it as you did, you formed an axiom 
> of questionable value....

You have obviously never taken a class in debate at any point in your life.
All formal debate topics are stated in the form of a resolution, with one
side taking the affirmative, the other the negative. Since you proposed
a
one-on-one debate, I took the opportunity to state my debate topic in proper
formal style. I formed no axiom, because an axiom can not be argued either
way. It must either be accepted or denied, but it can not be debated. Since
the topic I chose can be argued either way, and provides much room in either
direction for such discussion, I have not invalidated my own position.

>     NEXT?!?!?!

Please, George, try again. And this time, put some effort into it. You're
off to a very poor start.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: FREEDOM OF CHOICE
|Date: 23 Mar 97  13:51:12
EID:8367 22776e60
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>> I won't make a judgement on oral sex, as I am not sure.  But anal sex

>> would be very unnatural, yes.

CH>> Why would anal sex be unnatural? Based on what? Know how many pleasure
CH>> nerves there are in that region of the body? Since you're the one saying
CH>> that we were 'designed', then those nerves had to have been put there

CH>> for
CH>> a reason. What purpose would that be? Or did God make a mistake?

> Well, isn't anal sex painful?  

No. Not when done properly. Just like vaginal penetration, so I'm told.

> I am not God, and thus, do not claim to have all the answers, but yes,

> everything He made, there is a reason for.

So, you agree that there is a reason for those pleasure nerves to be
around the anus. Would you care to propose a reason?

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 23 Mar 97  13:52:14
EID:bf16 22776e80
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>>     Gays can become Christians, but not while they are gay.

CH>> So, can someone who is homosexual, but has never had sex with anyone,

CH>> be Christian?

>     Not if they are going to remain a homosexual.

But you've said in the past that it was the repeated practice of having
sex that caused the actual condemnation. Or was that Ken Wiens? You all
look the same to me.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Re: Baby burning in Hell
|Date: 23 Mar 97  13:52:50
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CH>>  KD>> I found *birth* to be disgusting. Shall I outlaw that?

CH>> >     The pro-choicers have already tried and suceeded in doing that.

CH>> Ok, people, Jim has gone off the deep end. Birth is now illegal in
CH>> his world.

>     I was making reference to roe v wade, Chris.

Roe v. Wade outlaws birth? I'm sure that Norma McCorvick and the Supreme
Court will find this interesting news.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Re: Staal wants to know.
|Date: 23 Mar 97  13:59:12
EID:f351 22776f60
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CH>> > One doesn't have to believe in Satan to be under his control.
CH>> > You don't believe, and yet the evidence is abundant.

CH>> Jim, just how in the name of pluperfect hell do you expect someone
CH>> that's an atheist to give any such credence to your idiocies?

>      I'm not. I could never do it. I know that. The Bible is perfectly

>      clear on that.

Then why do you continue to try to argue the Bible against a bunch of
atheists? If you know that we're not going to treat it with any weight,
why continue to use it? Have you nothing in your arsenal of discussion
save that one book?

CH>> The existence or non-existence of Satan is as irrelevant as the
CH>> existence or non-existence of God. You believe. I don't. You're never
CH>> going to
CH>> demonstrate conclusively that God exists, and I'm not going to waste
CH>> my time trying to poke holes in your faith

>      Cause it can't be done. :)

Jim, if I were to switch into raving Discordian mode, you couldn't poke
any holes in my faith, either. Hell, I doubt you could argue Sue Armstrong
out of the Triat-mythology, and that was invented three years ago by a
role-playing game company. For that matter, you probably couldn't argue
ME out of it.

CH>> (it's more fun poking holes
CH>> in the consequences of your faith).

>      And I don't see you doing that in the near future either.

It's already been done on a pretty regular basis, Jim. You just don't
have the vision to see it. You've claimed constantly that this is an
either-or debate (either you serve God, or you serve Satan). We've shown
repeatedly that that just doesn't fly, and yet because of your blinder-
book, you just sit back with your thumb in your mouth and your brain in
neutral, screaming, "You are in error!" You've yet to give any evidence
to suggest that atheists worship Satan, except a book that you admit 
does you no good in this argument.

Face it, Jim. You've set yourself up to lose, and you're too blind and
ignorant to realise that fact.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Martin Goldberg
|Sub:  Re: Darryl's Loverboy
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:00:38
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CH>> I don't pick on deists. I have to admit I kinda like the concept. 
CH>> "God has punched in a bunch of constants into his Silicon 
CH>> Graphics workstation, hit the run button, and is downstairs 
CH>> away from the terminal waiting for the printout."

>     I like to pick on deists.  None of them have any real reason for 
>     believing the way that they do.  The whole concept of a god, no matter

>     what the environment, is asinine.

Deism is a convenient mental construct for getting around such annoying
questions as "What caused the Big Bang?" Yes, it's ultimately useless,
but it's a lot less annoying than Christianity.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Martin Goldberg
|Sub:  Re: Cracker Barrel boycott
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:26:16
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CH>> Actually, in terms of pure attraction, I would be willing to bet 
CH>> that strict heterosexual attraction (that is, someone who 
CH>> finds ONLY members of the opposite sex attractive) is as 
CH>> statistically rare as strict homosexual attraction. However, 
CH>> thanks to our rather whacked-out societal "mores," there are 
CH>> a lot more people who claim to be strictly heterosexual or 
CH>> who will act only on heterosexual impulses than there are 
CH>> people who only find members of the opposite sex attractive.

>     If you're going to do the experiment, you have to come up with the

>     questionaires and start passing them out.  I ain't gonna hazard any

>     guesses about this one. 

Well, I can't cite exactly what I said above, because I said attraction
and not fantasy, but I can cite the following:

"Storms (1980) investigated the erotic fantasies of heterosexual, gay,
and bisexual people. Kinsey might have predicted that bisexual individuals
would have /fewer/ heteroerotic fantasies than heterosexual people, and
/more/ homoerotic fantasies than heterosexual people. But storms found
predicted that 'bisexuals will report /as much/ heteroerotic fantasy as
heterosexual people and /as much/ homoerotic fantasy as homosexuals.'

"Storms found that heterosexual students reported significantly more
fantasies about the other gender than their own gender. Gay students
reported more frequent fantasies about their own gender. Bisexuals, as
predicted reported a high level of both kinds of fantasies. Gay students
were also more likely to have fantasies about the other gender than
heterosexual students were to have fantasies about their own gender. Given
the stigma attached to homosexuality, it may be that heterosexual people
are less likely to admit to fantasies about their own gender (even to
themselves). It may also be that gay males and lesbians are influenced by
the media and the culture at large, which, of course, continually portrays
socially desirable male-female interactions."

Storms, M.D. (1980). Theories of sexual orientation. /Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 38/, 783-792.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Judith Bandsma
|Sub:  Re: ARROGANCE
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:27:18
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CH>> punch cards and COBOL for eternity would be a pain in the ass, but
CH>> then, this IS Hell, isn't it?

>     Probably a step up from Commodore BASIC. 

No.. nobody ever claimed that Commodore BASIC was a real language. Now,
Visual Basic, that's another story. If you didn't think that was a 
nightmare, I've heard talk of Object-Oriented COBOL. Be afraid. Be 
very afraid.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Dave Hamilton
|Sub:  Re: How about 1-on-1?
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:28:32
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CH>> Conversely, any statement which depends solely on an axiom in the set
CH>> is false outside the system, and any statement that does NOT depend
CH>> on a axiom in the set has indeterminate truth value outside the
CH>> system.

CH>> Sorry if this caused any serious confusion. It did to me when I reread
CH>> it.

>     We all understood your intent excepting your recipient, who blew
>     every circuit in his underfused tiny panel. Too bad; I was looking
>     forward to it.

Well, I replied to his "argument" anyway. He's made the invitation, I'm
taking him up on it, and now I'm going to see if I can get him to follow
through on his own challenge.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Robert Curry
|Sub:  Re: hateful
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:31:14
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RC>> I disagree. It is possible to be a bigot without having
RC>> religious dogmatism to assist to prop up such bigotry.

CH>> It's possible, but again, it falls to utter irrationality.

>     In other words, without religion to prop up hate, it's easier
>     for someone to grow beyond it.

Right. It can be done, but it normally takes an argument like "Well,
I think it's disgusting so nobody should do it." That falls apart
with a good reversal on the arguer, and typically won't stand in all
but the really blind-to-the-obvious.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Katherine Wintersnight
|Sub:  Re: 7 The List
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:33:38
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GT>>Hey, how come I don't see yours truly in there?

>     Because unlike Rod, Suzanne, and Peter, you never wrote me with an
>     entry.  Any I've added have been because for one reason or another
I
>     noticed them *while* I was writing up entries.  If you didn't have
>     something in with your name in the mail packet I used for reference
the
>     day I did those entries, I didn't make up one for you.

>     If you can take up a few minutes typing up the information, I will
be
>     glad to add you to the list.

Ok, here's one:

Christopher Hughes       Dallas, TX, USA     Freethought      ~1 months.
aka LoveBear

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: DRIVING MR. DAISY
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:56:46
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>     Plus, what does the color of one's skin have to do with their morality?

What does one's sexual orientation have to do with one's morality?

RH>> But seriously, NAMBLA hopes so. However, it seems to me to be a 

>     Right, and this is really my biggest reason for being against 
>     acceptance of homosexuality.  Where will it end?  Groups like this

>     would love to get their sick ideas accepted by the norm.

You don't seem to realise that the mainstream gay community is fighting
against NAMBLA's inclusion. Why? Because even the gay community recognises
that paedophilia is immoral (takes away rights from children). It's NAMBLA
advocates that claim otherwise, and you don't hear their sentiments echoed
by the gay community.

RH>> The key phrase is "consenting adults".
RH>> You want to bathe in piss? Fine, if your partner agrees.
RH>> You want to rape anyone? NOT fine (no consent).
RH>> You want to sodomise children? NOT fine (not adult).

>     When you say the key phrase is "consenting adults," does that mean

>     teenagers shouldn't be able to do the same things?

Depends on the age on consent.

>     So then, if someone wants you to kill them, that would be fine too,
as 
>     they agreed to it?

What do you think euthanasia is?

RH>> See? No god-myth needed.

>     No god needed, you say? Well then, where do you get your beliefs on

>     what is right or wrong? Keep in mind, you cannot prove morality.

You're claiming an absolute that doesn't exist. You're basically saying
that there is the Christian standard, or nothing. There are a LOT of schools
of ethics in the world. Cultural Relativism. Subjectivism. Emotivism. Ethical
egoism. Kantianism. Virtue ethics. Divine right. Utilitarianism. None of
these are inherently more correct than any of the others, but within each
of
them acts can be 'proven' right or wrong. If you want breakdowns of these,
I'll go dig out my old Ethics textbooks and explain them to you, long with
the biggest loopholes in each.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: KEN YOUNG: POSTER CHI
|Date: 23 Mar 97  14:57:32
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RH>> More nonsense. Pornography has NEVER been shown to be harmful,
RH>> despite the best efforts of several presidents. And homosexuality
RH>> is not harmful either.

>     It has never been shown that everyone that sees porn, will turn into
a 
>     violent rapist or molester or anything.  But, there are generally

>     negative effects. 

And these negative effects are...? And they were documented where?

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: Ken Young: Poster child
|Date: 23 Mar 97  15:04:24
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RS>> Read above.  I never made any such claim.  I made the claim that
RS>> the evidence clearly shows that in virtually all surveyed people,
RS>> sexual orientation is not a conscious choice.  Further, if it
RS>> were a conscious OR subconscious choice, it would be able to be
RS>> repaired like any other behavioural pattern choice.

>     ANd since some have switched to being heterosexual, it has indeed
been 
>     "repaired."

You're arguing a behaviourist theory. Perhaps through aversion therapy
and stimulus-response techniques they have been taught to sleep with
members of the opposite sex, but there has never been a document case
of an individual who was strictly homosexual prior to such therapy that
changed orientation.

>     WHy can't you understand this?  You made yourself who you are, and

>     that includes your likes and dislikes, even sexually.

Even if this were the case, what does that prove?

Further, if this is the case, then you, also, chose. And that means
we can cure you just as easily as you claim homosexuals can be cured.
Now please give us a compelling argument stating why you should not 
be converted to homosexuality.

RS>> I never said *every* single gay person.  I said *MOST people*.
RS>> I'm quite willing to admit (and have) that there are some people
RS>> who claim to have chosen.  We cannot determine if they did or not
RS>> by simple investigation -- though it seems on further questioning
RS>> on these individuals, they do express that their sexual
RS>> orientation has always been innate (as they confuse the initial
RS>> question to be "sexual activity" not "orientation").

>     AT least you admit that it is possible for one to choose, but I think

>     if people were properly questioned, one would see that that person
did 
>     indeed choose. Perhaps it was due to some trauma, or maybe it was
just 
>     basic insecurities. WHichever, if it has to do with how a person will

>     live their life, it is indeed a choice.

If you'll read what he said, he did not say that the orientation itself
is a choice. He said that acting on one's orientation was a choice. He
said that the orientation itself was innate.

Do you just have a reading comprehension problem, or are you deliberately
attempting to misread my husband's arguments?

RS>> Of any 1000 people who enter such a program of "repair" did you
RS>> know a significant proportion commit suicide within one year,
RS>> because of the fact they've been taught that "God hates them",
RS>> and that the majority of participants in these "repair" programs
RS>> are innocent gay youth who have been forced into the program by
RS>> their parents/pastors?

>     WHo teaches them that God hates gays?   God is hardly about hating

>     people.  It is only their sinfulness that He hates.

And just how does one hate one's sins without hating the person who
committed them? If the act was voluntary and willful, then there is no
difference between hating the act and the person. If the act was not
voluntary or willful, then hating the act is the same as hating the person
who forced the commission of the act.

>     Or have these gay youths just been duped into believing they are gay,

>     by an overly accepting society.

Oh, so we're back to the old recruitment argument. I feel like Bernadette.
"Oh, I was doing this years ago."

RS>> I didn't say "seen".  I said "objectively *listen* to".  I see
RS>> you don't listen to me, nor the evidence I have to offer about
RS>> the truth about gay people.  You clamp your hands over your ears
RS>> and refuse to even HEAR anything, let alone LISTEN to it or
RS>> ABSORB it or CONSIDER it.

>     I listen perfectly well, but I am not going to believe something 
>     unless I see something pointing to it being true.  I cannot accept

>     psychology as evidence. 

And we can not accept the Bible as evidence. We are therefore at an
impasse. We've heard your words, we've denied your claims. Now wipe
the bits from your feet and leave the echo. Put us in God's hands, as
the Bible commends you to do (Mat 10:10-15).

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: Freedom of choice
|Date: 23 Mar 97  15:10:32
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RS>> Why not?  Surely you believe that for gays to be repaired, they
RS>> should marry innocent heterosexuals and lie to them, and
RS>> eventually cause yet *more* horrendous damage to US families when
RS>> the eventual break up occurs.

>     No, because that is forcing it.  
>     ALso, it could create a whole new set of problems, like an unhappy

>     marriage. 

Then why not permit same-sex civil marriages?

RS>> Your religious-right-wing mentors claim that it's the best thing
RS>> since sliced bread for faggots... Marry them off -- of course,
RS>> unless it's one of your own daughters...

>     No one that thinks they are gay, should get married to anyone.  Not

>     until they figure things out.

So, you would rather condemn those who are comfortable as homosexuals
to celibacy and isolation, rather than permit them legal recognition in
happy civil marriages? How.. Christian.

RS>> I don't take the above answer to my very serious question as a
RS>> joke, especially in the light of your claims that you are a
RS>> "responsible" gun owner who would never do such a thing as shoot
RS>> someone for being different.

>     You need to lighten up..  What would I achieve by hurting someone

>     because I feel they are immoral?

Punishment from God, of course. Since it's more and more evident that
people are waking up to the kinds of repression the Bible has caused in
God's name and are becoming less and less willing to enforce those
oppressive laws, the temptation is always present to just go and take
out a few of those real nasty sinners oneself. Look at Rev. Paul Hill.
Look at John Salvi. Look at Torquemada. 

RS>> Of course, it may just reveal the exact reason why you're unfit
RS>> to own a gun.  If you actually did find out that your daughter
RS>> married a gay man, or son married a lesbian, you'd probably kill
RS>> them if you found out that the person wasn't properly "repaired"
RS>> by your Christian pseudo-shrinks at the Exodus brain butchers and
RS>> liars.

>     If my son or daughter married a homosexual, I would be quite upset,

>     but 1) they are still family, and 2) it isn't as if they would be
the 
>     gay person. 

And if you found out your son or daughter were homosexual? What then?

RS>> After all, if you're going to claim that we're anti-family, we
RS>> might as well live up to your propaganda.  And when you ignorant
RS>> religious types realise the damage that is being done to your own
RS>> families by denying the families and relationships of others,
RS>> maybe you will consider leaving gay people alone to live their
RS>> lives, with full access to all rights that heterosexuals take for
RS>> granted.

>     ANd maybe why such "propaganda" exists, if not true, could be because

>     that is how several gays act.  Many make things more difficult for

>     themselves than it needs to be.  Most wouldn't say that gays are 
>     trying to rip apart family values, if several did not act like it.

Most wouldn't say that blacks are lazy, slothful, and ignorant, if several
did not act like it. Many wouldn't say that Jews are babykillers, if several
did not act like it. Propoganda doesn't require proof. Propoganda doesn't
require logic. All it requires is fear, hatred, and a willingness to lie.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: The Jesus was homosexual
|Date: 23 Mar 97  15:12:46
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KY>> Well, not all CHristians would do this.

RS>> We only need one.  Hitler was an example of one Christian.

>     He wasn't a Christian, but apparently believed he was.  It was an

>     entirely different god he worshipped.

He claimed to be. What other evidence does one need to suggest that he
is? Jim Jones claimed to be. Paul Hill claimed to be. Torquemada claimed
to be. All the Inquisitors in the 1600s claimed to be. How many does it
take?

KY>> I sadly admit, some would like to, as they go way too far with
KY>> morality,...

RS>> ... and you don't?  Oh, the irony of it all!

>     No, I don't.  For the most part, I am not for laws on sex, drugs,

>     whatever. 

Bullshit. You've quite blatantly said in the past you were all for 
permitting communities the right to outlaw homosexual sex. If you aren't
for the law itself, what justification do you have for permitting a
community to pass such laws?

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Jason Sichkaryk
|Sub:  Re: god
|Date: 23 Mar 97  15:26:40
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>     god sucks

But does he swallow?

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   David Rice
|Sub:  Re: Driving Mr. Daisy
|Date: 23 Mar 97  15:27:36
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MG>> It is an "unnatural act" between any two persons.

>     My imagination must be very poor: I cannot think of
>     anything that would qualfy as an "unnatural act."

The only unnatural acts are ones that people can't perform.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Rick Mcfarlane
|Sub:  Re: Scurvy
|Date: 23 Mar 97  15:31:20
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RM>> Or maybe #4) exactly who He[sic] said He[sic] was,

>     What's with the [sic] bit, David?  Do you think that Jesus was a "She"?

No, the [sic]s are because there's no point in capitalising the "He"s.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Lynda Bustilloz
|Sub:  Re: Accepting Reality
|Date: 23 Mar 97  15:33:48
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KW>> Nope. We are talking about those who regularly
KW>> engage in the act.

>     How often is "regularly"...maybe if you propose what the limits are?

>     Kinda like hunting season...

>     You know...if we legalized gay marriage....they'd get hitched, and

>     after a few years, it probably WOULD get a lot less regular...

"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!"

I'm sorry. I promise to go find a life at some point. I just have to get
my MS first.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Re: Baby burning in Hell
|Date: 29 Mar 97  08:54:14
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->> On 18 Mar 97  10:59:27, Jim Staal got back to Karen Davis

KD>> I found *birth* to be disgusting. Shall I outlaw that?

JS>> The pro-choicers have already tried and suceeded in doing that.

DC>> And the name of that law is?

>     It's called 'roe v wade'.

Uh, Jim? Is "Roe v. Wade" a law? No. It's a court case. Certainly the
ruling issued by the court has the weight of law, but it is not a law
in and of itself.

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Jim Staal
|Sub:  Re: My Summer Weekend
|Date: 29 Mar 97  08:55:58
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RS>> I've only known a life of Godlessness... It is a beautiful life.

JS>> You have a god. The Bible says those who don't worship God, worship
JS>> the god of this world: Satan.

SA>>      So Jim...do you believe that Satan exists?

JS>> Of course, Sue.

SA>>      Hmmmm...then why is Satan a god to Rod but not a god to you?

>     Because only God is god to me. Many things are 'god' to many people,

>     but the Bible refers to Satan as 'the god of this world'.

And if a person has NO god? What then?

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|From: Christopher Hughes
|To:   Ken Young
|Sub:  Re: FREEDOM OF CHOICE
|Date: 29 Mar 97  09:00:54
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KY>> I won't make a judgement on oral sex, as I am not sure.  But anal sex
KY>> would be very unnatural, yes.

BB>> Why is it unnatural, Ken?

>     Well, according to those that I know that have tried it, it is quite

>     painful. Sex should be of pleasure, not pain.

Then they weren't doing it right. The pleasure's indecent. Especially when
you get your prostate massaged in the process. 

>     Plus, I would think it be more of an awkward way to have sex.

No more awkward than some of the positions you see in the Kama Sutra.

>     And come on..  Put that WHERE?!?  I