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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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(...) Unfortunately, Terry, many folks can't have an intelligent conversation without refering to god in some way shape or form. They feel that there is a guiding force in their lives that they MUST push down other folks throats 24/7/365. I feel (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I decided no to read further than the first 2 lines. Respect is mutual. I offered a real friendly hand-shake, you answered back with god-talk, exactly what you know offends me. That's real nice of you. It just shows your level of respect for others' (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Hi David - It's definitely not appropriate for lugnet.general, and might not be appropriate for fun.community, but .people should be OK. Hope this helps! -Tim (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) me (...) I think I'll just pray that you dont flame me for praying for you. :) Or maybe I should pray for the flame war? I have seen people come to Christ because of them. :) After that 8month several thousand post discusion/flamewar I was (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) <and a bunch more witnessing> Please consider setting FUT somewhere else, it's starting to veer away from general interest, IMHO. I set FUT to ot.d but that may not be the right place to be, I dunno. (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) SNIP (I agree here to but have to cut my quotes.... (...) Well said. I agree, God Bless You, Nathan (22 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Oh, Hi David. After reading the follow-ups on this thread, I realized you were that seller I greeted with a request to keep religion out of BrickLink a few months ago. Matt has used this incident as a way of "prooving" that I don't respect (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Any idea which hotel is which? (if you We're coming up Thursday but not staying at the Hilton due to the higher rate there Thursday night. Chris <>< (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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Hi David - (...) Snipped a good illustration :-) (...) I think it would be appropriate with followups set to lugnet.people (which I've done to this message). It would also be appropriate in lugnet.off-topic.debate, though from experience I seriously (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Ive only been here a few weeks but I already see this atleast software wise. I'm a distributed systems solutions junkie of the old kind and to see: pov, mlcad, ldraw, l3p, l3pao, bricktrack, bricklink, brickset, peeron and who knows what else (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:HDJoDL.156p@lugnet.com... (...) documentation (...) joining (...) I wasnt sure where to put this but since it came up here I thought this might work. I am an NNTP posting fan so when I found (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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No he was basically showing dont judge a book by its spiritual cover. Its a sad an unfortunate thing that todays churches are regularly filled with people who look and act and seem like the nicest people around but in fact are anything but saved. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Let me understand you teaching... You mean that you were convincing children that they belonged in church? (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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I went the other way once in a Sunday morning service some time ago. I made a parable using an ordinary LEGO brick, a LEGO minifig gun, and a 100% compatible 2x4 clone brick. I asked some children to point out which one was not a Lego part, and of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) [...] (...) Cool. (...) A good goal for LUGNET to have. What I'm trying to get to is this; I believe, based on what I've heard coming out of discussions with many different types of LEGO fans, there are (sometimes quite valid) perceptions (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) I agree. Let's all keep this in mind over the next few weeks as the setup/sign-up stuff on LUGNET is overhauled and keep our collective eyes out for points of confusion. (...) I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The core purpose of LUGNET (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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howD all, as a professional online community manager and developer, i also agree that the lego community needs to "get w/ the program" as it were. online communities are held together by sharing standards among multiple kinds of websites re: their (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) I don't give people the full art-school style firm, no-nonsense critique - which I'm perfectly capable of doing, having come up through the Long Beach State illustration program and have had as many as 10 artists working for me on software (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Hi Michael - (...) Not at all! In fact, I think as this thread continues, we're getting better and better responses, getting down to the meat of things. (...) There are many LEGO fans which fit that description. More than half of my train club (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)
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