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Re: God(tm)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:14:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Matthew Gerber writes:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Brendan Powell Smith writes:
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> > > ...copyright infringement for using God(tm) without permission.
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> > These words strike me as EXTREMELY funny...
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> > But then again, what are the chances that some major religion
> > (Catholicism...I'm looking in your general direction!) uses this very phrase
> > in possible litigation within the next 25 years or so?
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> Well, the religion Scientology (which, I state clearly and for the record,
> is absolutely NOT a wacko fringe cult founded by a hack SF author for the
> sole purpose of bilking money out of the credulous, the desperate, or the
> mentally ill, nor is it a manipulative and exploitive pyramid scheme to
> generate tax-free income at the expense of benighted aspirants) is famed for
> its litigiousness, and while "God" and "Christianity" might not be
> copyrighted, "Scientology" and certainly "Dianetics" already are. I grant
> you, Scientology (though not at all an insane throng of duped cultists)
> isn't a major religion in the sense that Christianity or Islam or Buddhism is...
I'm sorry Dave!...you're meaning just isn't very clear here...perhaps you
should quit beating around the bush and get down to brass tacks...if you are
going to pussy-foot around the issue, why even post to this thread at all? I
just don't understand...
8?D
Matt
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| (...) OMG(tm) Matt, I guess you didn't know about Dave! I mean about how he was once held hostage for hours by Scientologists in a room in which a montage of scenes from Battlefield Earth was projected onto the walls around him while the the theme (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, the religion Scientology (which, I state clearly and for the record, is absolutely NOT a wacko fringe cult founded by a hack SF author for the sole purpose of bilking money out of the credulous, the desperate, or the mentally ill, nor is (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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