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(...) Hmmm... maybe it's neither an illness nor a lifestyle choice. Maybe homosexuals are just people, like the rest of us. (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) like (...) I'll see what I can do. I'm sure it's on one of my numerous disks lying around my desk. :) Anyways, sorry for not responding earlier, I stopped reading the board and I just now remembered that people may have answered my posts. :) (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Massachusetts militia were organized by towns. I think under an elected officer. The towns of course were (and still are) governed by open town meeting (total democracy).I don't recall how a leader was chosen when the militia of several (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "The people" - then and now - are whatever people we assume the constatution governs. That has clearly changed. I don't have answers to the fine points (e.g. are illegal aliens part of the people?) but I think that we can comfortably agree (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Tell me about it. I spend all day dodging the inquisitor. Steve (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Fri, 21 May 1999 09:56:29 GMT, Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote: [interesting stuff snipped off] (...) ... I am a miwwionaire ... Steve (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Apologies--I snipped the conversation-order. Erk. I need to stop working so late. LFB. (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi again, (...) I try only to make stuff up when it's inconsequential. ;) My "field" isn't early US/18th C. Britain, it's later, so all I have is ancillary knowledge and methodological things. I'm in agreement with the "they had different worries" (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Sorry for the absence--it's been a long week. (...) I'm not talking about accepting French aid--which was instrumental to our success--but in exalting the French and the aristocracy of that country. There was a ton of Francophilia going on in the (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) BTW, The preposition rule doesn't really exist. It's up there with the one that says "never split infinitives," which doesn't really exist either. Bill Bryson wrote a rather entertaining exposition on it in _Mother Tongue_ that made a (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I've heard that before;-) (...) The Inquisition moved to Michigan??! What a terrible imposition;-) (...) Don't look at me. **I'M** not the troll who trolled out "evil Jesus" and "fictitious god". I have no intentions of cramming anything down (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) **I'M** certainly not going to plow this ground again. This has been talked about here ad nauseum and I haven't the bandwidth to get into a debate about the existence of god. Suffice it to say that I'm as satisfied of his non existance as (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> (...) Ho no! you do! :-( (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here we go again. History does have a way of repeating itself. (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Analysis?! Based on what? Not facts. For "rational folk", y'all seem pretty confident in things about which you know nothing, which to me sounds irrational. Further, you hold God is fictitious because you have no proof, which *certainly* (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Under his analysis Jesus was evil, not just misguided, and was a man, not the Son of God. Further, God is fictitious, and there exist better fictions, for example the one he gave. Seems clear to me. Try to keep up, eh? I confess I hadn't taken (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've seen these stated along with calmly well supported chains of logic and the listeners still shake their heads. (...) If you believe it, I'd be interested to hear it. (...) Sure, new blood gets in, but has to work with the system. Who will (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Unless they checked in his bed--(he sleeps with them ) (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Yeah, "but he's worth it!";-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Wow, you lost me there. Please clarify the "evil man Jesus" and "better fictitious god" statements. -John (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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