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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Title: Re: [internetworkers] not about bumperstickers

Sweet!  Orange County Social Club one random weeknight?


On 9/21/06 7:00 PM, "Jason Tower" <jason AT cerient.net> wrote:

> and i would love join both of you, and buy the first round.
>
> jason
>
> Tony Spencer wrote:
> > Hey tuz
> > This slack-church-goer-but-christian-nonetheless would like to personally
> > apologize for anyone who has attacked you personally in the name of a
> > “Christian nation” and I would certainly love to buy you a beer and listen
> > to your thoughts on the world.  I don’t want you to move the hell out.  :)
> > 
> > Tony
> > 
> > 
> > On 9/21/06 6:51 PM, "matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>No worries, Greg.  I was just trying to be funny.  Ya know, "Ha Ha
> >>Funny."  That is my whole schtick.
> >>
> >>I am desperately curious to know why today, of all days, you are
> >>politically worked up.  Was there a new development of which I am not
> >>aware?  Have they finally outlawed that whole pesky "Free Speech" thing?
> >>
> >>Actually, I have been "politically worked up" for more years than I
> >>can count (Disclosure: I can only count up to six), but I have found
> >>that trying to educate and enlighten people or even open their minds
> >>just a tiny bit results in the most hateful personal attacks I have
> >>ever experienced.  I don't have enough fingers to count the number of
> >>folks who have angrily told me to "Move the hell out of their country
> >>if I don't like it" or the amount of people who wanted to get into a
> >>physical altercation with me because I was disproving the "facts"
> >>that they had heard from the TV box.
> >>
> >>This was mostly in Carrboro and Orange County.  Had I tried such
> >>treasonous activities in Raleigh or Roxboro I surely would have been
> >>lynched.  As a final data point, the majority of these True Believers
> >>strongly claimed to be of the "Christian faith" and repeatedly
> >>trumpeted the line that "This is a Christian nation."  I did not
> >>stick around long enough to explain Jesus Christ to them.
> >>
> >>So, instead I just take my little photographs and make little jokes
> >>about how strange the world can be sometimes.  My career of fighting
> >>ignorance and propaganda has come to a less-than-graceful end.
> >>
> >>dave m.
> >>
> >>
> >>On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Greg Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>Actually I'm the one who should apologize.  I took this thing way
> >>>>off track.  I am a touch "politically worked up" today.
> >>>>
> >>>>Sorry all.
> >>>>
> >>>>Greg
> >>>>
> >>>>On 9/21/06, matusiak wrote:
> >>>>On Sep 21, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>> "I know very well what God hates..."
> >>>>
> >>>>Well, my innocuous little discussion of funny bumperstickers has
> >>>>certainly gone off the rails.  Sorry to everyone for bringing it up.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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