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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community)
 
(...) I was hopeing that you'd catch me on the Upper and Lower Canada in 1867--then I could go into why I love Winona's history. So the simple idea that you missed the historical fact that Upper and Lower Canada ceased to exist at the beginning of (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) .debate doesn't suffer fools gladly, no. If you just waltz in there and tell people you have some Good News for them, you're not likely to get a warm reception. (...) and some silliness, and you have the common sense to tell which is which, (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: "France is not a Western Country anymore"
 
(...) All right. Why don't we use the term "bigot" then? (...) If you're going to use the term "enlightenment" as litmus test to determine whether a group is worthy of respect, then you need to throw out groups that work to foster pseudoscience in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) Given the right conditions (and we are talking about an incomprehensibly high number of planets with varying conditions), it may well be that the odds against life happening somewhere are the longshots. Atoms and molecules like to form certain (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Free Speech, again
 
(...) <snip> (...) I think it could, in the same way 'class action' lawsuits work-- "Excuse me witness A--why did you stop buying ice cream?" "Why it causes cancer, of course!" "where did you hear that?" "From this website that explicitly said it (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  "Fictitious Presidency"? How about "Fictitious Oscar"?
 
The consequences for Tim Robbins' recent unpopular ramblings are miniscule compared to the potential humiliation MM faces if the Academy is convinced that his "documentary" Bowling For Columbine is in fact not eligible under its own rules for (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Tim Robbins "Countering a Wave of Hate"
 
(...) Er, no you don't... You merely know that I chose not to make that particular finding clear one way or another. :-) (any flattery I may have uttered at the time notwithstanding) (URL) to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) That would be analogous to asking "by what chemical (...) If we were to look at it from an opposing angle--how is the assessment that there *is* a God "behind the scenes" inferior to the view that the universe is there all by itself? Science (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: The U.S. Economy: The Thousand Yard Stare Through the Years
 
(...) How could anti-american agendas like the Patriot Acts I & II be anything but premeditated? I mean, really -- even McCarthyism was a planned thing -- it stank to high heaven but it was someone's specific agenda. Just like the Inquisition and (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Free Speech, again
 
(...) First, I'd say there's a difference b/w a corporation and a gov't institution--separation of church and state is gov't, not corporation. Dubya 'talking God' is irrelevant. Dubya supporting keeping "Under God" in the PoA is wrong. I also thing (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Heres a debate question for ya...
 
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, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: "France is not a Western Country anymore"
 
(...) Separatist propaganda? What about your federalist propaganda? I told you before, I'll tell you again, You know nothing about Québec. You arguing on this subject is as irrelevant as me talking about the political situation in lituania. I've (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Free Speech, again
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: *** For the record, I've snipped parts with which I disagree but which I recognize will not yield to discussion by either of us--you're as convinced of your correctness as I am of mine, and never (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community)
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: "France is not a Western Country anymore"
 
So people have a value... A $$$ value I mean. Depending on their status, where they live, what they do, how they act... We are far from the "We are all equal" objective here. To me, the fact that money gets involved to settle a crime is wrong. Money (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: La belle province
 
(...) Well, in a democracy the people get to self-determine already - so one can argue about the use of having two states in similar circumstances taking similar decisions, when this only works to double institutions. The more states there are, the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) Sorry to be a buttinski here, but I just thought of something. What about the odds angle? Sometimes coincidences are too great; that is, that the odds of something happening a certain way are way beyond normal expectation. Say, for instance, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community)
 
Hi, Please don't take this as an attack... Just a different opinion : ) (...) I wouldn't say this is particularly fair. (Define intelligent conversation : ) ). The reason many Christians talk about God/Jesus so much is because He is their guidance, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community)
 
(...) Exactly. (...) And how so? Religion serves several of the same merits as the aforementioned activities, including social interaction, faith in one's self and morality, which, outside of the church and its parables, might prove difficult to (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: For some Lego is a religous experience. (Was: Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) But the crux of my question: "what if there isn't a reason behind the universe?" I'm not, at this point, saying conclusively whether there is or isn't one; I'm asking what would be the impact to you if there weren't a reason. Here's another (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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