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Re: Preaching to the Choir
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:58:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
> I can't believe this conversation is staying on a 'well gee, wouldn't it be nice
> if...' level.
I can't believe that the originalral thread (about who to vote for and getting
involved in politics in an effective way) seems to have spun off into some of
the standard old directions. (the gay marriage direction, the "socialism
works/no it doesn't" and etc.. what's next, school prayer?)
Well, actually I *can* believe it but I digress. :-)
Snipped the rest since I agree with it. Well, except for the married five times
bit. I would tend to suspect that someone that got divorced 4 times and thus is
presumably not good at picking, or working with, life partners, might possibly
not be as good a parent either. BUT it's not proper to assume that apriori...
Aren't you supposed to be packing for BrickFest? I am supposed to be.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) ;) I will concur that the possibility of a bad parent exists if he or she's been married numerous times. Who knows how good a parent Larry King is, for example. That said, unless there are specific documented instances against a person, he or (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Preaching to the Choir
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| (...) Actually, you do not digress here, Lar. The original point with which I started this thread was that o-t.d had become a quagmire where meaninful debate gets dragged down into the muck by the same old circular logic. The fact that this has (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I can't believe this conversation is staying on a 'well gee, wouldn't it be nice if...' level. In todays age, where there are pregnant teens, single moms, and 80 year old males getting married to 30 year old women and having kids, and all of (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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