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(...) <and a bunch more witnessing> Please consider setting FUT somewhere else, it's starting to veer away from general interest, IMHO. I set FUT to ot.d but that may not be the right place to be, I dunno. (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Haven or heaven? :-) Your answer does matter. (...) except you didn't spell "sophisticated" right, Dave! Whassup wid dat, mon? (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here in the intellectual haven of ot.debate, we prefer the more sophsiticated "whazzzzuuuuup!?!" Dave! (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: I would like to offer a formal apology to ot.debate and to Maggie C. in particular for this line: (...) Except! What am I, the product of home-schooling?!? [1] Dave! [1] Actually, home-schooling has (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Mike--are looking for a metaphysical, over-arching "reason" behind the universe? What if there simply isn't one? Science isn't in the business of determining "why" things happen in this transcendent sense, nor should science be required to do (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Lego people tend to be an intelligent group of people, and as such, LUGNET doubles in .debate as a political forum. Hence also it's under .off-topic. And, our political views do seem to influence what we build. I build older, historical, or techy (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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My money's on Syria or Iran. I say while we have the troops over there, use 'em. It'll cost less than redeploying them. :^) -Stefan- (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sports are NOT a necessary part of life. -Stefan- (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mmm...jelly donuts. :^) That's great. -Stefan- (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What is it with you and being social? :^P (...) There is plenty of stuff to prove the bible wrong. They're called fossils and really old rocks. -Stefan- (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why is going to church a legal issue? That's about doing what your parents make you do (Yes, I know about emancipation age and so forth). (...) Glad to see you agree here with having a reason to eschew church. And most people we're talking (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey, he has his opinions and I have my own. If he can encompass discussions of world politics with the words "little things," I think I am allowed to express an opinion on that comment. As has been commented before: don't like what you read in (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There, you've explained how the safety valve works :-) (...) Fun, and instructing. I've learned much from the care many of the debaters put on their research of the topics under discussion - many things of which I'd never even think about, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually Richard, that was a damned assumptive remark. Like some at .debate argue about everything from politics to lego to religion, there are those out there that would rather argue about affairs revolving around sports, cars and movies. So (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Good points. I post on off-topic.debate irregularly, but view it often. If o-t.debate wasn't there it wouldn't worry me. However, like driving past a traffic accident, I try to ignore it - but I am constantly drawn back. The views expressed (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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relative OTD newbie jumps in. Website: None yet, I gotta get me one of those Residence: Ontario, Southern California. Political: libertarian with a lower case L, because I don’t agree with all their views, but pro-capitalism, anti-big government, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snipped the adultery bit> (...) Determined by a judicial process... so once again, you need a judiciary... and because your theoretical system is dynamic, values for transgressions need to be determined each and every time, so it's going to (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Indeed. (...) You see my problem is that science has yet to answer 'Why' anything happens. There are lots of good theories on how things happen but not one single answer as to why. It is my observation that people believe by analyzing things (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, 14. : ) And you say _I_ have inverted priorities? I mean, I'd so much rather uselessly run my mouth about something I'll make sense in rather than something political and making a fool of myself... Or have I done that already? (...) (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "Little things"? "Sport debates"? Talk about inverted priorities...what are you, 12? -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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