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Nope. Even when I was that young, if they would have hit me with a ruler, I probably would have yanked it out of their hand and beat them back. Up until senior year in HS, I was always a bit large for my age ;-) And my parents, while probably (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) alright, let me throw everything out on the table: i am a Christian conservative. i am pro-family (that is marriage between a man and a woman), pro-life (the right for an unborn, helpless child to live), and i adhere to the best of my ability (...) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sir, I see from your post that you have a child. Consider this: According to your reasoning, parents (you) must hate their (your) children because they are disobedient, poop in their diapers, write on the walls, and get the flu at the most (...) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Hello! (...) So at least you are against Death Penalty. Nice to hear that! Bye Jojo (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ROFL! (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did that include beating your hands with a ruler if you wrote with your left hand, Tom? That's what happened to my bf, who is left handed but still writes (very slowly and badly) with his right. Kevin (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's exactly what I mean. Maybe it's not even your parents' fault. I'm willing to give that. Maybe they just didn't know better -- and now you don't. But it's still wrong. And raising kids, teaching them untruth as if it were truth, is (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Then you've been lucky not to have been exposed to reality, since you have been given such an inadequate set of tools for dealing with it. If you are in a position to save either one innocent person or a pair of innocent people from certain (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Idunno about you, but clearly the skeletons in your closet have come out. -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) i actually grew up in a loving environment that taught me that right and wrong are absolutes and nothing is relative. believing that has kept me out of trouble many times. And I didn't say you were (...) on the contrary--i'm not talking about (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Sure it is. I don't know anyone to have been harmed by it. Chris (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) For .admin.nntp: LUGNET has to abide by certain societal restrictions for the sake of liability. In that sense, John's perfectly right. For .o-t.debate: Screw them! Parents withholding what it means to be human by shielding their kids from (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Wait a minute--Kevin's gay?!? Oh no! I bought skeletons from him a few years ago--what does that make me? Dave! (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Look Jason, I can't help it that you're wrong. I can't help it that you grew up in an abusive (if only mildly) environment. And I didn't say you were uneducated -- I said you were educated wrongly. We're not playing a game here. You're talking (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) How could he??? You homos are wicked and that's good enough. Trying to rationalize it will only get him into trouble. See John Neal's long history of debate for countless examples of the style. (...) Yeah, this is something that bothers me (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:I473CK.1uzM@lugnet.com... (...) Maybe truth in your, as usual, twisted, bigotted, totally-intolerant-t...Y-like-you mind, but I'm strictly hetero, and I certainly don't find homo/bi repulsive. Just not (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Whichever hand was closer. Or whichever had a mitt on ;-) I catch with either hand equally well. But while "left-handed", I can only throw accurately right-handed. So I pretty much ended up catching LH, so that I wouldn't have to catch RH, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) They tried, they REALLY tried with me in school. But I'm more stubborn than any teacher I've ever run into, and my left-handedness won out ;-) Then again, I can write semi-legibly with my right hand if given time. About the only things I can't (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) It's all useless. LGBT people can't seem to feel accepted in society unless they subdivide themselves into therapy groups. I'll still accept them, lavender bricks or not, and look upon their creations with the same eyes (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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I've had time to read and reread and reread this post and I'd like to add a few comments further, if I may. "Teddy Welsh" <ewelsh@wsc.ma.edu> wrote in message news:I40H0H.1yKv@lugnet.com... (...) No one is unwelcome at Lugnet, not even Richard (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) I've only read a couple of full-length novels that were originally published as short stories or novellas. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) comes immediately to mind (and I've recently discovered a copy of the original novella at the local (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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BUSH: "We will not negotiate with terrorists." Is (URL) this> a coincidence, or is it the start of a slippery slope? (URL) When> she was caught just over 1 year ago: "She is said to have carried out work on germs that cause botulism poisoning and (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) This admin (not moderator, we don't have moderators at LUGNET) appreciates your concern and thanks you for your flexibility and willingness to work within the system. However (1) the decision to request a cancel rests with *you*, not the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) re-education? oh, i see...anyone who disagrees with the homosexual agenda is "uneducated". nice retort. i think i've heard that one before in elementary school: "if you don't play my game, then you're stupid!". perhaps you need more exposur to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) If a moderator thinks that that message *was* too graphic, you hereby have my request to cancel it. Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Interesting that you don't bother to address either of the two major points in my post, Lee (that heterosexuals frequently broadcast their sexual orientation by referring to the gender of their partners, and that sexual orientation is about (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Read them, liked them. The very notion of being Sleepless is a pretty amazing idea. Thought the third book got a bit weak compared to the first, though. (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) If I recall correctly, Blood Music was indeed a short story first, and then was lengthened to a novel after the short story's success. I've only read the short version, but I wouldn't doubt that the second half of the novel was bland. ~Kevoh (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) If it's genetic SF you want, give the Beggars trilogy (Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride) by Nancy Kress a read. Not only are they a very good read but they are also very pertinant to the issues that started this whole (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I didn't say it would be logical for newcomers to assume that; just that they might (notice the word "could"). (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Those, in fact (along with Darwin's Children) were what I was thinking of as well. I just finished Blood Music and I have to say while I found the science very interesting, I sort of didn't like the ending of the story. The whole last half of (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I love Greg Bear, also good are Darwin's Radio and Blood Music. (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But isn't there a huge distinction here? Say, for instance, I said the following in the .storage group: "I was digging through my big bin of bricks last night, but the noise was really annoying my SO, because she was trying to sleep. I really (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The bottom line is: we don't know!! We can speculate all we want to, but we just don't have any facts to go by. (...) Because we can't think of one doesn't mean there isn't one. Nature is generally smarter than we are :) (...) But there is no (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) But I've seen a Brickfilm of the Iron Chef show, and doesn't the Extreme Team subtheme have a water skiing set? I'd imagine that those into those topics would love to see discussions on those themes as they relate to those LEGO creations, and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There were German internment camps also. The numbers were much smaller, so they have got less exposure. (...) Except most of the "enemy combatant detainees" are not citizens. And those who are citizens should certainly have the constitution (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Alfred Speredelozzi wrote: <snip> (...) Did you sass that hoopy Alfred? He's a really cool frood who knows where his towel is... Dave K (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh man, we're really gonna need a towel. (...) Don't Panic! :p -Alfred (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Just a quick aside, pretty much anything has implications in some religion or other. Lego altogether is an affront to the Amish I'm sure, since they don't even believe in using such technical marvels as buttons, let alone plastics and the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Okay, so that works on an individual celular level, with cells that have evolved specifically to do this. Do you really think something as tied to the core psychology of self as sexual orientation would be post-natally programmable at the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Officially all J-A citizens/residents were termed "dangerous enemy aliens" (technically, so were all German- and Italian-Americans, but everyone collectively turned a blind eye to them). Once you've classified them as enemies, it's pretty easy (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) See also the novels of Greg Bear, who seems to riff on some of this stuff quite a bit. You might just get a lot of confused views rather than good solid scientific info but you might just enjoy the reads... (I just finished Vitals which (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Chris- This incredible process was discovered when people began to realize that we each have too many different antibody proteins, and that our DNA isn't long enough to encode them all. Eventually they figured out that each antibody-producing (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Some can. Like my father for example - who is a United Methodist Minister, and has been for the past 15+ years. He is a respected member of the Christian Community in Daytona Beach - and a friend of the Bishop for the United Methodist Church (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) US citizens of Japanese descent were classified as POWs? I did not know that. It's scary if true. It also gives ammo to the Bushies and their Enemy Combatant thingie. I hope you're wrong... I'm scared you're right. Also I thought the Geneva (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, absolutely, but I was giving situation-type examples, and today's racial profiling (of black drivers, of Arab airline passengers, etc.) is of the same species. And regardless of the civil rights movement, it was wrong of the government to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Since that happened well before the civil rights movement, the only applicable legality that I can think of is the 5th Amendment (nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law), but I believe they were classified as (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Hello! (...) That's as logical as to conclude from one left-handed murderer that all lefties are murderers. And who would take the opinion seriously of somebody who comes to that conclusion? Bye Jojo (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I just realized that you're making a correct and finer distinction than I did. I didn't mean to suggest that these disorder are mere behavior problems in need of more discipline. On the other hand, sympton-lists are problematic because it's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I guess it depends on the definition of "life affirming", as I don't see more life as necessarily better life. Being happy is very life affirming. But ya. (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Oh, I don't doubt that it's a real condition, and I don't even doubt that it may have a higher incidence than previously known. But I'm uncomfortable with the correlation between the ease-of-diagnosis and the availability-of-prof...edication. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, sure. I think that compared to at least some of the implications of "life affirming," I this that satisfaction of preference is a better metric of morality. What generates more satisfaction/happiness, rather than what generates more (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) There is some evidence that dyslexia is caused by making kids learn to read before their brain is ready for that kind of processing. I'm the first to admit that it's weak evidence, but there are a bunch of schools that adhere to a philosophy (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, just in terms of parallel evolution of ideas re: sacred v. profane. And whatever other oddity you'd care to contribute, of course. (...) I do not believe that there are any absolute standards for society, and all standards are determined (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I got all that and I hope I wasn't diluting your point. (...) That's super-cool. I had no idea. Is there a term for this phenomenon that I can google for? Chris (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Under your morality, perhaps. I recognise that different people hold different moralities, and under other moral systems, there may well be moral implications here. However I also hold the (somewhat unpopular and somewhat hard to prove (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Why not? Jesus did. Who did he hang out with all the time? The Scribes? The Pharisees? Or the people that they had labeled Sinners™? Which group are you representing right now? (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I've always viewed it as mixed-handedness when you do some things with one and some things with the other. Being fully ambidextrous should require being able to do everything with either hand at will, and being partially ambidextrous should (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I actually sat down and examined the way right- and left-handed scissors work and figured out how to use either style in either hand. It's visciously uncomfortable to use scissors in the wrong hand, but it can be done. (...) I've also trained (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Jason, we'll know when you've been "bombarded with it" enough when you accept homosexuality as a perfectly acceptable alternative to the majority sexual preference. Until that time, you need more exposure...even re-education. Chris (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lee Meyer wrote: <snip> (...) Don't certain faiths hold the average bovine in high esteem? Would that necessitate that all topics of conversation regarding having a 'LEGO Buildfest and BBQ at Biffs Place' be inherently a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There are no moral implications in the issue -- except for the immorality of behaving in a hostile manner toward a harmless minority, of course. (...) Out of curiosity, would it be more or less hostile to your particular religion if Todd (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I can't see the direct link between socialism and 'telling everyone to sit down, shut up and live', sureley thats just a measure of intolerance, not how left or right you are. ( I will admit that those at the far right and the far left tend to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Lee Meyer" <leemeyer1@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:I4DGG3.yz4@lugnet.com... (...) separate (...) that (...) that is (...) LUGNET (...) If one were to base Lugnet decisions on faith, which faith system would one choose as the basis for (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Something can make it to the front page with only one spotlight? Sure: as long as those other 2,499+ members aren't spotlighting something else. If you don't want to see something on the front page, then spotlight something else! Spotlight (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Hi Dave, the point I was trying to make was that when you deal with a topic that has moral/religious implications (such as homosexuality), if before the discussion has even begun, you state that religious factors will not be taken into (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yes, he does. I was simply pointing out that the posts don't get there by themselves. BTW I think only posts in .announce can get there with only 1 spotlight, anything else seems to require 3 or 4. I have, in fact, noted in the past that (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Man, this feels like such a better place to talk about non lego related issues! I suggest all .people groups move here! "John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:I4Bs8n.zsw@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hi Chris, well, strictly speaking, I meant a gene expressed in gay people as opposed to straight people, or expressed more or less highly between the 2 different groups. Any number of mechanisms could account for such an occurance (probably (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I can't say I agree-- by saying that, you're absolutely forcing LUGNET into a position of choosing a religion by arguing that something that's *unreligious* is a religion in and of itself. Hence, you could argue that nothing ever was (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Replying to myself..., and Wayne, again. ;] Wayne upon re-reading my post and your reply, it dawned on me that perhaps you were in fact addressing my question, "Is LUGNET what you really want?", with your view being yes, and to those that it's (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) Wayne, I don't know if your question is meant to be rhetorical to the general members, or if it's directly specifically at me. If the latter, then unfortunately it reads like you missed the point of my post (or I failed to make it well). I was (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) You guessed it...."confused";-) "I'm sorry, I have a cold" JOHN (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) ANd if you catch better with your right hand, and throw better with your right hand... what does that make you? Dave K -now confused about how handedness he is... (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Since you are admittedly baseball-knowledge challenged, I will tell you that if you are right handed, you'd probably attempt to catch/deflect the ball with your left hand (the hand that would normally wear the baseball glove). The right hand (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Though I've never even heard of Eliade or his/her? work, why would that be "odd"? That you aren't a fan and that I sound like (okay, I googled it...) him should sound about right, no;-) (...) Again, the ultimate expression of society isn't (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, it's clear that you and Purple Dave have thought about this more carefully than I did. Shame on me for coming up with a weak example! Dave! (still left-handed) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:I4CF8K.GxD@lugnet.com... (...) don't (...) men? I (...) lesbians. (...) are (...) them? (...) Hmm, the difference in acceptability could be due to a difference in function. Cynthia (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:I4CL81.1qo7@lugnet.com... (...) case, since (...) writes (...) directly (...) Hmm, I feel like I would block with my left hand/arm, but I am probably right handed (I used to mix hands for some (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Cynthia, can you hypothesize a mechanism by which this might be true? I would have thought that gene replication happens before anything else that might potentially cause gayness. Chris (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Oddly, this is straight out of Mircea Eliade's "The Sacred and The Profane," which speaks of the investment of "sacredness" into certain places/customs/actions so that those places/customs/actions are preserved against alteration due to (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The article I read dealt with dysfunction related to clinical depression, and didn't describe the hormones as sex hormones specifically - so I conjecture that by "arousal hormones" it was referring to something more along the lines of (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) When you ask the question, it requires thought--all spontaneousness reflexive action is then ignored... What would I do... Right now I think that if something was thrown at my face, I'd throw up both arms to protect my face. When someone (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe sexual intercourse is an intimate bonding experience physically, emotionall, spiritually, and psychologically. It is the ultimate "giving" of oneself, and thus should be considered to be a highly meaningful experience. It should be (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Kyle D. Jackson wrote: <snip> (...) No, what I expected when I joined LUGNET, was part resource, part discussion. .space mostly. I saw it as a place to exchange building ideas and maybe a little banter. But what I got (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) If you saw that a baseball was about to smack you in your noggin from directly in front of you, would you catch/deflect it with your left or right hand? (Assuming, of course, that simple dodging was not an option). Hardly a scientific (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snipp> (...) Does writing with your left hand make you left handed, or, as in my case, since I'm basically right-handed predominant except for writing (and who writes anymore, anyway) would I be considered right-handed? Dave K (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Plus, you've got that goofy metric system to worry about. I don't doubt your tale at all, though it reminds me of other people I've known who've made claims of ambidexterity: Usually it amounts to "I write with my right hand, and I can use a (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I was pretty much ambidexterous when I was young--wrote with both hands until my Gr. 1 or 2 teacher (can't remember which) sat me down and told me to 'pick a hand' 'cause my printing of letters would either slant to the left or to the right, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:I4CG4p.nt4@lugnet.com... (...) alone, but (...) and he (...) either (...) grab a (...) the (...) trained (...) I can only write with my left hand.. and only use a scissor with my (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Apparently we're staying the course in a (URL) handbasket.> See the cat? See the cradle? Dave! (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It parsed with the ancient Greeks. It was considered socially acceptable for mentors to engage in consensual acts with their also-male students, but only the passive partner was considered to be gay. Also, I've heard theories stated that the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Language even still reflects this, as most of us use the "right" hand, and an outmoded synonym for the left is "sinister". (...) You'd think so, but it's not completely true. Left-handers get left alone, but ambidextrous people might not. I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'd like to chime in as a biologist here: there are some situations in which sexual energy is better spent without a procreative effect. For example, if a group has limited resources. Sexual interactions among animals are not always strictly (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yes, typing fast. And I think you all have been handling it fine. Chris (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Are you discussing some certain circumstance? I know people under horomone-treatment for gender reassignment and people who've been surgically gender-reassigned and they don't report such repulsion. I know a woman who had a radical (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Like open-mindedness. Chris (now with homosexual-tendencies!) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) This is a question for anyone who has an educated opinion...I seriously don't know. Why does it seem relatively more common for women to be openly bi than men? I know lots of bi women, relatively few bi men, and more gay men than lesbians. Is (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yes! And it's a sad state that we should be helping to correct. :-) Chris (Who, with plent of qualifications, is serious despite the smiley.) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, the few gay men that I've been pretty close friends with were all "bears" if I understand the terminology -- not at all swishy. I assumed John meant something like this: I'm straight. I decide to have e.g. anal sex with a man. Now, in (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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