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Article #560Re: Tradition != Tribal Custom [Was: Re: So. Baptists - Easy Target]
From: Manoj Srivastava
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:00
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Hi, >>"Michael" == Michael OKC <mdbates@newsguy.com> writes: Michael> Umm, Tarla, pardon the interruption please, but I just want Michael> to point out that "they" don't go to Disneyland much less Michael> live there. God forbid they patronize an amusement park Michael> that refuses to give the finger to gays or lesbians! ;-) Quite frankly, in my experience the gay people I know have been far more pleasant company that religious fanatics -- and unfortunately, the only southern baptist I am aware of knowing was quite fanatical. manoj -- "Despite its suffix, skepticism is not an "ism" in the sense of a belief or dogma. It is simply an approach to the problem of telling what is counterfeit and what is genuine. And a recognition of how costly it may be to fail to do so. To be a skeptic is to cultivate "street smarts" in the battle for control of one's own mind, one's own money, one's own allegiances. To be a skeptic, in short, is to refuse to be a victim. Robert S. DeBear, "An Agenda for Reason, Realism, and Responsibility," New York Skeptic (newsletter of the New York Area Skeptics, Inc.), Spring 1988 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101acf,d575470b50b2fd2a X-Google-Attributes: gid101acf,public X-Google-Thread: fa15f,d575470b50b2fd2a X-Google-Attributes: gidfa15f,public X-Google-Thread: 100eae,d575470b50b2fd2a X-Google-Attributes: gid100eae,public X-Google-Thread: 10fa57,d575470b50b2fd2a X-Google-Attributes: gid10fa57,public X-Google-Thread: 10374a,d575470b50b2fd2a X-Google-Attributes: gid10374a,public From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> Subject: Re: Tradition != Tribal Custom [Was: Re: So. Baptists - Easy Target] Date: 1998/06/27 Message-ID: <87sokqxwrq.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> X-Deja-AN: 366763013 Sender: srivasta@tiamat.datasync.com References: <6moi7o$856$2@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> <6mp1sp$cuf@enews1.newsguy.com> <6mqq5o$m3f$1@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> <6n2n31$brb@enews3.newsguy.com> <35951b3d.11134210@enews.newsguy.com> X-Server-Date: 27 Jun 1998 23:14:45 GMT Followup-To: alabama.general Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Time: Sat Jun 27 18:14:26 1998 Organization: Manoj Srivastava's Home X-Mail-System: Vm 6.51 for GNU Emacs 19.34.1 Newsgroups: triangle.general,alabama.general,ga.general,nc.general,ok.general