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(...) <mucho snippage> (...) Zealot. :) I don't really have any significant beefs with the LDS - at least, no more than I have with any other organized religion(1), including my own. I have beefs with some individuals, but I make a distinction (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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WOOHOO! Greetings Jeremy. I'm a recent convert, coming up on my one-year mark (April 25th), and preparing to go on a mission. If anyone cares to "flame" Mormons here, they'll have me to deal with as well. =) Of course, this really isn't the place (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Good call on the keeping of chuch and state seperate. I wish more Americans felt the way that you do. I am from another conservative denomination, the SDA church yet I am still compleatly for individual liberties. Oh well good call. Ian (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Arg. I gotta vent. Slashdot is carrying an article (1) on how the Utah legislature is trying to enfore internet filtering in public libraries. Somehow, this topic has become a Mormon-bashing extravaganza. I was going to post there, but I suspect (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So the US public school system is best viewed as one big trick question? Steve (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Unfortunately the US system of teaching science depends a lot on simplification of topics in the early years and then clarification when the subjects are taught again in high school and college. Of course over simplification often leads to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, I know what you mean, except it's the opposite here. I love the sun and the beach - not very common around Boston... Well, at least I had a week in Florida and stocked up on some sun for these cold winter days :) (...) Yeah, maybe we (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Yup. American political stuff. Not to be confused with Canadian political stuff, or European political stuff. Stuff is a great word. It can be used to indicate distaste without being particularly harsh. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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James, (...) Well, I will look it up tonight, it is at home. Stuff..... Hmm.... Scott (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) th (...) and some of us have no interest in digging through the American political...stuff to find an obscure reference. James (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It is difficult to understand the connection between a Sabra (native Israeli) and Eretz Yisrael (The land of Israel) for an American. We take everything we have for granted; we even feel we *deserve* many luxuries; in Israel nothing is taken (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:10:36 GMT, "Shiri" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote: *snip* Yes, I too am thousands (Okay about 1700) miles from all my friends. Moved from Salt Lake City, Utah to to wild and wacky town of Houston (technically in Humble), Texas. I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I grew up in the UK, emigrated to Canada in 1981, and definitely prefer the culture here. Not that there aren't things I miss from the UK, or things I dislike about Canada, but on balance I far prefer it here. The main difference is the lack (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) quite possible - though I think we talked on the lugnet.loc.Yisrael... hurmph - need to write to Todd about that. (...) moved (...) heheh, apparently it's not that rare... When I lived in Brookline (which is not Brooklyn, NY), there were about (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi Dan, First off, nice to meet you! I don't think we talked before, but I think [your wife?] Jennifer told me you're from Israel. (...) Wow, that is too similar to what's happening to me... only with a one year delay (first moved at 3, now a soph (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) heh, I feel I need to jump in here too - Since I was in a very very similar situation. I'm from israel, originally, and lived in boston for a couple of years when I was 4 (got the bilingual thing you mentioned later) and again when I was a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<snip> (...) Couldn't help but toss in a couple of pennies; this conversation often comes up with friends of mine who have travelled internationally. The USA tends to have a "colder", more "closed" culture than many other countries of the world. I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) :-) (glad I have cable connection to the net) I'm trying to keep busy as well. Now you know the real reason I'm hogging .castle ;) (...) Right. This isn't my first time living in the US, and the previous one (ages 3- 6) literally made me a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahh. I wondered if it was something like this. I do know what you mean - I spent a semester in London while I was in college, with none of my close friends there. I only got through by keeping very busy, and spending way too much money at the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nothing is BAD about the US specifically - I'm just not getting along here. Kids aren't very friendly in my school, I don't like the cold weather, I miss my house, family and friends. Basically, it's been eight months since I've moved here, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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