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| (...) I disagree. To attempt NOT to create a community, you can't really have post-to-able boards, but instead something more like MOCpages or BrickShelf where there's room to post Lego creations, but no back-and-forth communication. Hence, asking (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| In lugnet.admin.nntp, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) However, if certain people are uncomfortable posting in .general groups, or certain people are uncomfortable reading about certain things in .general groups, shouldn't there be sub groups made to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Well, maybe it should be. (...) Maybe the purpose of LUGNET shouldn't be to create a community, but rather be a resource center for all things pertaining to LEGO. Boards are useful for communication among AFOLs, and many AFOLs have come to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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| (...) Is it truly an irrelevant detail? If it was, wouldn't that NOT create discrimination? True, on a day to day basis, for the most part, we don't care if any individual is LGBT, married, single, straight, young, old, or whatever. But Lugnet is (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) And I would concur with the general idea about assigning labels leads to the depreciation of folks. That said, here's a thing--hypothetical-- Gay person wants to talk about his gayness in relation to his hobby. Either he wants to ask advice on (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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| In lugnet.admin.nntp, Christopher L. Weeks wrote: SNIPPED useless/pointless commentary from both sides (...) Our kids are taught indifference. Part of that is by not teaching them to inappropriately label people (regardless of who wants the label). (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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| (...) I guess setting up a newsgroup for transgender parents would be rather transparent. (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) man, oh man, have you crystalized my thoughts! i agree with everything you have just said. lugnet is just another facet of e-society (or society, for that matter) that the homosexual agenda has permeated (as if we are not bombarded with it (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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| While we're at it, I'd like to suggest a .people.bruce group: -> lugnet.people.bruce (group) All about LEGO® people who happen to be named Bruce: Myself, Bruce Lowell, Bruce Schlickbernd, and, in the spirit of the Monty Python sketch, anyone who (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | | | Re: False premise in this message needs to be identified as what it is
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| (...) Uh, Lee? How do you define religion, exactly? Dave! (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
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