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(...) I believe Larry was using sarcasm to illustrate that very point. Bill (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) right? (...) I know about the unrest between Korean storeowners and African-Americans. What I was trying to get at is that if one uses slang like "whitey" and states that only whites can be racist (not true) then one does need some sensitvity (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Gloria, (...) I think what Larry was saying here is when Al Sharpton called lynching on a Korean run grocery store in New York. I don't think anyone here is advocating lynching anyone, except for the types like Al Sharpton and perhaps James (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not true, even *in* academia. Certainly not among any of the African Studies people I know, and I'm in just such a supposed "bastion of orthodoxy." The people who deny racism can exist among minorities make an easy foil, but they're far rarer (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sure. Executive summary: The author's all wet. Ignore him. More: Libertarian viewpoint (and the author clearly is trying to use Libertarian as a denigrating comment, too bad for him he doesn't get it) or not, the net as a whole doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) !
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(...) Sel (...) part (...) Not true even among liberal thinkers. Anyone of any race can be racist. He/She only has to believe one race to be superior to the others. (...) racism, (...) deserve (...) word (...) I think you all are hoping there are no (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) care to comment on this? (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you left a smiley out. I've never killed anyone, you know. Except perhaps bored them to death... (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well, Ed posted a good question and we've heard from a pretty wide spectrum of viewpoints. Self selected, more geeky than the population as a whole (as well as nicer, cooler, and generally better looking, but I digress) I'd sum up everyone by saying (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Disagree. Again I'd point to the LP track record (if I just could dig it up in 90 secs, it's out there somewhere) in the limited situations where we have had elected officials, we've hewn to our word and done what we could do to dismantle the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Outside of academia. See, most of the people you and I know are fairly reasonable, fairly rational (not perfect, mind you)... we both presumably know mostly normal mainstream people. But in the bastions of orthodoxy where this stuff emanates, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not sure it should. I know that my church wass lobbying for the anti-gay marriage measure in California, and I'm not sure it was the best thing to do. In this country, a church should have the right to tell its members what they should and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sounds kinda circular. Where is it said that no one made God? The Alpha and Omega (beginning and end) statement might've been directed towards us mortals; He created and will destroy each and every one of us, as we understand our current (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Isn't reading Slashdot before trying to sleep kinda like watching _Titanic_ before going on a cruise? ;-) (...) Todd, are you sure you're not a Mormon? :-O :-, You're touching upon some very basic beliefs from my church. (...) Pardonez-moi (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Depends on what you mean by 'devil'. Do you mean the guy in a red suit with horns and a pointy tail, carrying a trident? Yeah, that probably is non- Jewish. Non-Christian, too, although it's a bit of mythology made up *by* Christians (I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Isn't that pretty much the same as the idea of Nirvana? Being one with God, and all that? Steve (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why is that strange? At what point did it cross from "similar" to "too similar"? (...) They studied the object of the preposition "about" in the previous sentence. The pronoun "it" was intended to refer to that phrase without having to type it (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Adam Hoekwater wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Strange, but those interpretations are just too similar with the "tasavvuf" interpretations of islam. <snip> (...) They studied what? I don't think there are much material around to "study" these (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip the rest> You've answered an interesting thought experiment with "revealed truth" which we already knew, and further, since it's presented as factual, doesn't do anything to move the "what if" forward. Thanks anyway. Todd's thinking out (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) God invented time, space and physics as a way for us to live. Nobody made God, He's been around forever, in as much as forever can exist without time as a reference. (...) Heaven with God is an idea from the Bible, if you think that's (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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