From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Pained Whale?
Keywords: elephant, HE, m203
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 21:05:53 GMT

In article <92Oct15.150109.11654@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca
(Charles Parr) and his mom write:
>In article <1992Oct14.233133.1572@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>>In article <92Oct14.135658.28951@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca 
>>(Charles Parr), with some help from his mommy, writes:
>> If you can't do any better that the stuff you just posted,
>>please do us the favor of pissing off without saying anything more...
>>otherwise, we'll be forced to see if a gravel enema will help you.
>
>Help me what, Don? I don't spout my peeves from my anal orifice
>(I know, but soon even you will learn to talk out your mouth,
>rather than dribbling out your sphincter), so I doubt the 
>vigorous cleansing action would do me any good at all.

Seems like you'd better consider a remedial reading class, Ace.  I was
thinking in terms of attitude adjustment when I mentioned the gravel
enema, not removing the source of your creativity.

But now that you mention it, I was wondering where that odor was coming
from...

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>>>Is it just me, or are there others who think that if you're gonna
>>>genuflect to some spook, you really ought to feel a little more
>>>involved? Some faith perhaps? A little fervour? Some bible-
>>>smashing, witch-burning, proselytising, sweating, revival tent
>>>style RELIGION!!!!!!
>>
>>Son, you've been watching entirely too much TV.  Do you really believe
>>that the intensity with which you embrace your beliefs increases their
>>validity?  Surely if that were the case, Charles Manson would be running
>>of the United States now (though, come to think of it, he might be better
>>than the lot we've had to choose from, lately).
>
>I bet I'm not alone in wondering how you could have failed to 
>understand my peeve, Baldwin, but I'll spell it out for you
>one more time. The reference was to how spineless yuppie-spawn
>pick their churches and religions out of convenience, rather
>than faith. This constitutes *hypocrisy*, Baldwin, and it
>peeves me quite a bit.

The fact that they're actually THINKING about religion and evaluating
it critically, rather than simply copying their parents, bothers you?
Faith is a precious commodity these days, my muddled young friend,
and it seems to me that it's a real GOOD idea to make sure that the
people you want to believe in don't do stupid things like condemn the
use of contraceptives in overpopulated countries.

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>I don't agree with religious fanatics, most of the time. And 
>I certainly don't permit them to dictate to me, but I have
>respect for sincerity of belief. 

Right.  Personally, I don't respect someone's beliefs very much if their
poor sense of self worth forces them to try and foist off their beliefs onto
me, handle rattlesnakes, etc.  If you've got to work that hard to
prove that you have faith, you probably don't have it to begin with.

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>>So take a little advice from one who's been around for a while:  pop a
>>valium or drink a couple glasses of wine, and play a couple games of
>>Naked Twister with someone who you like.  You'll learn more about life
>>that way than by running around and trying to emulate the Fundies.
>
>I'm assuming you were taking your own advice during posting?
>Seeing as you managed to miss the entire fucking point, and
>obviously failed to reference any clues while typing, I'm
>going to assumme you were somehow distracted.

Well, Chuck, I don't think I missed the point.  And if I did, it was due
more to your failed attempts at communication than to a lack in reading
comprehension on my part.

You failed, Chuck.  Maybe you should work up to peeving by starting in
alt.whine?

    don
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