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[Chris Hedemark <chris AT yonderway.com>]

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 12:53 PM, Rachel Cox wrote:

> Y'know, I went back and read through all of Chris' posts that I have  
> on the list (and I, sadly, never delete anything), and didn't find him  
> really remarking on religion at all, at least until Dave started  
> attacking him for being Christian - a fact he seems to have picked up  
> from a sig Chris was using on another list, is that right?

I used to sign something like:

Reverend Christian J Hedemark II
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com

(taken from archives at  
http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20010827/000393.html  
for anyone who wants proof for whatever reason).

Doing a full search of the TriLUG archives, I couldn't even find one  
example of a post that had the words "Jesus" and "Hedemark" in the same  
message.

I also went back to try to find out about this cartoon he was  
complaining about.  WARNING:  Don't follow the hyperlink in the  
following message if you are at work or offended by vulgar cartoons:   
http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020826/010086.html  
is a link to the message that started that thread.  I posted a simple  
response  
(http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020826/ 
010090.html) that basically warned people not to open it up at work,  
and to tell them that there may be objectionable content in there.   
Also I suggested that people put warnings up whenever making links to  
questionable material.

Shortly after that, Mr. Matusiak started soybombing  the TriLUG list in  
some sort of retaliation.  Examples:

http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020826/010109.html
http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020826/010110.html
http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020826/010111.html

I don't think anyone really knew what the heck was going on in his  
mind.  But I don't think he caught any flak for it.  He vented, and got  
it out of his system, and life went on.  A couple of people were really  
cheesed off that I put up a fair warning about the content of that  
link, and yes I think I was called a censor, but if you read my post I  
was *not* censoring but asking for reasonable warnings to be made when  
linking to porno, vulgar sites, anything that is likely to be  
objectionable to large groups of people.

> So I'm really puzzled by (though not actually curious about) the  
> animosity Dave seems to hold towards Chris.

I'm both puzzled *and* curious.  When someone's thoughts and behaviors  
cannot be rationally understood, and a big heaping spoonful of hate is  
stirred in, it can be unsettling.

> Unless he thinks it's justifiable to hate an entire group -  
> particulary one as varied and wide-ranging as Christians - because of  
> the actions of some of them.

I don't think it is all Christians though (even though his rant today  
implied that).  Historically, he's had some kind of beef with me and I  
think I was on double secret probation or something because I really  
don't know what I did that was so eeeevil.

Chris Hedemark
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com