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  • From: Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] not about bumperstickers
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:42:22 +0100

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:
>
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>>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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