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Message: 1516
Author: $ Alan Hamilton
Category: Rebuttal
Subject: Jehovah
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 08:24:14
I think he -- whoops! -- He should be barred from the Christian board. If
there is one place He isn't needed, it's there. Or is it?
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/ * / Alan
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Message: 1517
Author: $ Jim Lippard
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: God/Christian Board
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 09:33:42
No, he shouldn't be allowed there--he's Jewish.
Message: 1518
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: God
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 12:29:42
Dear God - can't you do something about James so that we can get along
better. And why don't you just Zap Mecham and solve all the controversy?
Gee - but it's wonderful to have someone to really talk to that is
understanding!! Hey Cliff - we need a special "GOD board on this BBS. WE can
ask Him all sorts of personal things there and Rod -- oops - God will
listen!! Improtant things like - does Reagan dye his hair - is Jimmy
Carter's teeth real. You know - real important suff here. - ANN
Message: 1519
Author: $ Beauregard Dog
Category: Last....
Subject: God board
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 18:30:27
I think we just need a special Category... od!
Perhaps we should make sure he stays on the <$>tatus board, too... wouldn't
want them non-paying customers free access to Him, now, would we?
(You'll pay to know what you really think)
Rev. Beau
Message: 1520
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: God
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 20:35:56
Send Him to the hantom Zone.
(Cliff: Zap his ass, babe!)
Message: 1521
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Ann
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 00:55:31
That is certainly clever. You know I'm right, so just ask God to eliminate
me so you'll "get along better."
Message: 1522
Author: $ Alan Hamilton
Category: Question?
Subject: Which witch?
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 08:18:18
Did anyone listen to KFYI radio at midnight last night? They had on a
former "witch" -- a follower of the Wiccan religion. Bizarrely enough, she
left it when she became a born-again evangelical Christian. Now, *that's*
quite a switch! Despite that, she was pretty fair with it. For example,
though she now believes that the witches derive their power from Satan,
since it isn't from God, she admits that neither she nor any of the other
members of her coven were active devil-worshipers. A lot of callers tried
to accuse the Wiccans of this horrid thing and that, but most of what the
mentioned are actally the domain of devil-worship, and not Wicca. In fact,
the Wiccans *can't* believe in the Christian Satan, since they don't believe
any part of Christianity.
I was especially interested because one of my friends is a witch. She
doesn't like to talk about it, mainly because most people's impressions of
witches consist of Margret Hamilton riding over the Emerald City on a broom,
cackling "I'll get you, my pretty!! And your mangy little dog, too!!"
Well, my friend doesn't have warts on her nose, and she doesn't have a
pointy black hat, either.
Some of those late-night callers can be fun. One suggested that our
precious little children were being poisoned with pagan thoughts from
cartoons, and he named "He-Man(tm) and the Masters of the Universe(tm)" and
the "Smurfs."
-->> cont
Message: 1523
Author: $ Alan Hamilton
Category: Last....
Subject: Continued
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 08:19:14
Boy, you've got to agree with that! It's about time the Smurfs learned
some good Christian values, don't you agree?
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/ * / Alan
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Message: 1524
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Answer!
Subject: James/more
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 09:33:08
Again - you have miss judged me! I jokingly said "would God help me to get
along with you better"! I DO NOT want, you of all people zapped! NOW - all
kidding aside --- I have truly enjoyed our conversations To have two
completely different view points and debate them, in my book, is one of the
spices of life. I've enjoyed every moment of it and hope in the future that
we find something else. So you see - I don't want you zapped because we
don't agree. Because we don't agree makes it interesting. ---ANN
Message: 1525
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: God
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 09:36:55
I agree with Beauregard Dog RE: a (G)od sig. OF course the non paying
members can't be in on it. You get what you pay for remember?! We have to
pay our way into HEaven. I.E. Oral, Tammy & Jim, Jerry etc. Anyway - if we
have a God sig. - we won't need "Joe"!! Hahahahaha.
Message: 1526
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Zak!!! ???
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 11:17:21
Are you C-R-A-Z-Y ??? You ZAp him....
I think he is here to save Rod and J.T.
SYSOP
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Message: 45016
Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Sandy
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 02:40:54
You're missing the point: The Visa debit is nothing more than an extension
of your checking account. As such, it is no more likely to become mandatory
than a checking account.
Your list of former conveniences that have become mandatory does not, in my
opinion, limit my personal freedom. I guess you're probably really worried
that some day the "convenient" bar code readers will keep track of
every customer and what they purchase at the grocery store. Then the feds
could keep a "nutrition and caloric ledger" and limit both the quantity and
types of products we purchase.
Message: 45017
Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
Category: In search of
Subject: Pheromones
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 02:44:27
Dean and Traci kind of blow that theory out the window.
Message: 45018
Author: $ Alan Hamilton
Category: In search of
Subject: $$ Money $$
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 08:09:49
As to the lottery thing, if that guy did win, and I was a store owner,
I'd run off a hundred void tickets every morning (you don't get charged for
void tickets) and if one won, give it to some illiterate person to claim for
me. It was really dumb of the clerk to sell it to him, though. Not only
does the ticket say *** VOID ***, but the terminal beeps and says on its
screen, "WAGER REJECTED BY LOTTERY CENTRAL." But if that guy didn't think
it was important to learn the language of this country, it is ultimately his
fault. No, you shouldn't force someone to learn English, but I don't think
they should be babied, either.
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/ * / Alan
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Message: 45019
Author: $ Alan Hamilton
Category: Answer!
Subject: Re #44979
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 08:21:52
In that book, the assertion is made that people in America belonging to
the Communist party are not give social security cards. I find this highly
unlikely. First, I doubt they would let that go unchallenged in court, and
the ACLU would back them. Second, you can't file an income tax return
without a SS number, and I am pretty sure that the government makes sure
they don't commit tax fraud.
As for denying them credit, I work at American Express, and I can tell you
that all we check is a person's past payment history. If communists don't
pay their bills on time, no they won't get credit. Nothing else figures in,
though.
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/ * / Alan
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Message: 45020
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Alan/Man
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 12:21:04
I just didn't think it was that poor guy's fault at all. I might even go in
Circle K and come out with a void ticket and not pay any attention because I
trust them. Why not? It was the fault of THEIR clerk!! That man I think was
learning english because something was said about him becoming a citizen. I
guess it makes me feel sad that he didn't get the money because he needed it
so bad. AND - he did have the winning ticket!!! OF course, the other winners
might have a big say in the matter to! They would reather not split it with
him if they didn't have too. I can understand that. -- Ann
P.S. I'd just like to see some "HEART" shown in our society (where money is
conserned) at least once in a while. We're all human and the laws should be
for humans! --- ANN again.
Message: 45021
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: In search of
Subject: Life
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 17:30:29
...
I find myself suprised by the thought that dying is an
all-right thing to do, but perhaps it should not suprise.
It is, after all, the most ancient and fundamental of
biologic functions, with its mechanisms worked out with the
same attention to detail, the same provision for the
advantage of the organism, the same abundance of genetic
information for guidance through the stages, that we have
long since become accustomed to finding in all the crucial
acts of living.
Very well. But even so, if the transformation is a
coordinated, integrated physiologic process in its initial,
local stages, there is still that permanent vanishing of
consciousness to be accounted for. Are we to be forever
stuck with this problem? Where on earth does it go? Is it
simply stopped dead in its tracks, lost in humus, wasted?
Considering the tendency of nature to find uses for complex
and intricate mechanisms, this seems to me unnatural. I
prefer to think of it as somehow separated off at the
filaments of its attachment, and then drawn like an easy
breath back into the membrane of its origin, a fresh memory
for a biospherical nervous system, but I have no data on the
matter.
This is for another science, another day. It may turn
Message: 45022
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: In search of
Subject: Life
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 17:33:37
out, as some scientists suggest, that we are forever
precluded from investigating consciousness by a sort of
indeterminacy principle that stipulates that the very act of
looking will make it twitch and blur out of sight. If this
is true, we will never learn. ...
Message: 45023
Author: $ Mike Howerton
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Rod/Stuff
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 18:42:20
Well it's good to be back on the board.
This is the one board that I missed the most while away from
computers.
Did I miss anything exceptionally exciting????
Message: 45024
Author: $ Zak Woodruff
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: last
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 20:39:07
No.
Message: 45025
Author: $ Traci Sibel
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: lottery
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 22:51:17
Ben Lindsey, a former U of A (yay, Wildcats) basketball coach started a fund
for Richard Meneses (with the Ded ticket) to collect the $20,000. He
opened an account with Century Bank and is asking "fellow lottery players"
to donate $1 (3225 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, for all you fellow lottery
players out there). He will give Menese $20,000, and any left over will be
donated to the United Way of Phoenix. Circle K plans to give Meneses "some
type of compensation...at least the $2 he paid for his invalid lottery
tickets."
-- condensed from Arizona Republic
Message: 45026
Author: $ Traci Sibel
Category: Answer!
Subject: Nick
Date: 07/10/87 Time: 23:25:16
Dean's pheromones are just so INTENSE!!!!!
....they seep right through my circuits!
Message: 45027
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Answer!
Subject: Ann/married
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 00:41:32
Oh, give me a break. It is common sense that married men pursue their
careers more aggressively than married women.
Message: 45028
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Answer!
Subject: Melissa
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 00:43:47
You are missing the point. I did not "want my stats to suggest that all
women DO get equal pay." What my statistics point out is that the
discrimination is only a small factor in the gap in average wages. The fact
that the gap becomes much smaller when only never-married men and women are
compared suggests that the differences in career pursuits after marriage
account for the vast majority of the gap. I don't believe that most jobs
people hold before marriage are minimum-wage jobs. Many people begin their
careers before reaching the age of 23, and many people get married after 23
(that age actually sounds a bit early to me for an average).
Do you deny that most of the wage gap is attributable to differences in
career choices due to marriage?
You state that "just because (I) think that all feminist [sic] do not like
men does not mean that our society believes this to be true, or that it is a
fact." Now, look, Melissa, I don't expect you to take reasonable positions
in discussions like this. After all, you've had a lot of nonsense drummed
into you by your women's studies professor. But I ask that you exercise
some minimal ethical judgment and do not misquote me. I never said I think
that all feminists do not like men.
Message: 45029
Author: $ James Taranto
Category: Answer!
Subject: Alan/North
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 00:54:13
If that's true, it's good news for those of us who support the Nicaraguan
freedom-fighters. According to a public-opinion poll, the majority of
Americans believe North is telling the truth.
Message: 45030
Author: $ Alan Hamilton
Category: Answer!
Subject: Last....
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 08:04:09
And Jim and Tammy Bakker still have supporters, too.
Somehow, I think that if North had sold the Washington Monument to Iran,
and gave the proceeds to the Contras, he'd still be praised.
I find it scary to think that Washington DC may be full of men trying to
find ways around laws passed by Congress, so they can do what the personally
think is right.
And eight years ago, if someone told you that a person that covertly sold
US Govt arms to Iran would be called an American Hero, would you have
believed me?
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/ * / Alan
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Message: 45031
Author: $ Dean McCarron
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Last. . .
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 08:42:11
What's even more scary is that most of those who are intent on finding ways
around laws passed by congress are congressmen.
Dean
Message: 45032
Author: $ Ann Oudin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: James/again
Date: 07/11/87 Time: 09:20:56
What do you mean give you a break? Since when have you been using common
sense in your answers? All I've gotten is stats!!
Do you/are you going to go through life believing all you read or are you
going to believe what you see and hear?? You are quoting statistics to the
wrong person. The new generation has been brought up to believe in
statistics. They can be used to manipulate you. I believed in them whole
heartedly at one time - but not anymore! The best of statistics are at best
- half true. Like I said before - give me a cause and I'll find a statistic
that'll fit it!! --- ANN