From: exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell)
Subject: Re: Short, shameful confession
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:37:32 GMT

In article <14rfd2INN341@iraul1.ira.uka.de> stoesser@i31s21.ira.uka.de (Achim Stoesser) writes:
>From: stoesser@i31s21.ira.uka.de (Achim Stoesser)
>Subject: Re: Short, shameful confession
>Date: 25 Jul 1992 11:54:10 GMT

>Sorry for the followup to my own article but I had the time to look up some
>details.

>In article <14opgfINNq3o@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, stoesser@i31s21.ira.uka.de
>(Achim Stoesser) [me] writes:
>|> In article <1992Jul23.165154.4435@cs.ucla.edu>, jperry@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
>|> (John Perry) writes:
>|> |> that comic o' the ages (Achim Stoesser) quips:
>|> |> >Well, my first thought was "Why does he go to a _hospital_, with so many
>|> |> >Catholics praying for him?"
>|> ...
>|> |>      Because he's Catholic, not Christian Scientist you nit!  Before

>What are you? Did you pray for him? Did it help?

>|> Well, let's assume that he's a Catholic. Catholics go to Lourdes, don't they?
>|> Some kilometers from here Catholics go to a little Bavarian wannabe Lourdes
>|> where trees are "bleeding" ("it's _real_ human blood") and the Virgin Mary is 
>|> seen now and then. 
>|> 
>|> Besides, why _do_ they pray if it doesn't cure him?

>It was Leo XII who forbade a pock vaccination during an epidemic.

>|> |> you astound us with another witticism displaying your apparent lack of
>|> |> wit or knowledge of any kind, why don't you cut off all of your fingers
>|> |> with a chain saw.  Especially the forefinger on your left hand, as that 
>|> |> is the finger closest to the 'f' key.  While you're at it, go ahead and
>|> |> cut off your toes and other tiny appendages, and eat the whole lot of
>|> |> them for lunch some time.  (does red or white wine go best with your
>|> |> own fingers?  depends if you're white meat or dark)
>|> 
>|> Could you give me some yummy recipes (you know that I'm vegetarian and,
>|> therefore, don't have meat recipes). And, please, suggest a substitute for the
>|> wine because I don't use drugs.
>|> 
>|> |>    Now drop for the Pope and give him twenty and an act of contrition.
>|> |> 
>|> |> I altered your .sig a bit for you.  I suggest you adopt this new one:
>|> |> >
>|> |> >I'm an anus, atheist, fudge-pacifist, and vegetable.  This does _not_
>|> |> >mean that I'd arrange flowers, worship Elvis, let virgins breed with bad
>|> |> >breath, or make sense of any kind.  Hugs.
>|> 
>|> If I wouldn't know better I'd assume that you are trying to insult me. Doesn't
>|> the Bible say "Do not call a man a fool" or something like that ;-) ?

>Matthew 5:11 "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and
>falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me."
>Well, I guess Jesus didn't think of the possibility that atheists could be 
>insulted etc. because of him.

>|> Funny that you didn't change the "atheist" - of course this word is on the same
>|> level as anus, fudge-pacifist, and vegetable. 

>There was no need to change the "pacifist" either - as Hitchcock showed (in "A
>Lady Vanishes", I think), "pacifist" _is_ an insult.

>                                                                Achim
>_____________________________________________________________________

>I'm an anarchist, atheist, pacifist, and vegetarian.  This does _not_
>mean that I'd bomb kings, worship Satan, let soldiers bleed to death,
>or eat fish.


Ah, a real live anarchist! Speak to me, speak to me. I'm a blooming 
libertarian, theist, nonpacifist, and red meat eater. Where did I go wrong?

					--(k.b., better in person)
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