Subj : Extent of the Torah
To   : Curtis Johnson
From : Joseph Voigt
Date : Fri Oct 27 2000 08:08 am

Hello Curtis,

Wednesday October 25 2000 00:59, Curtis Johnson wrote to CONSTANCE RAWLEY:

 CJ>     1) You're trying to provoke him into doing the same here,
 CJ> aren't you?  Really, aren't you?

I trust she is. :)

 CJ>     2) FIDO has some specifically designated "flame" or "no
 CJ> holds-barred"-type echoes.  They're certainly not to everybody's
 CJ> taste, and most are not to mine (if only because most lack wit).
 CJ> If you don't want to read them, don't read them, just as if you
 CJ> don't like loud and rude music, don't go to thrash metal concerts.
 CJ>     Boxers usually don't hate each other, and I think you are
 CJ> probably making the same here as thinking that boxers necessarily
 CJ> hate each other, or that many WASP types make in encountering a
 CJ> Mediterranean-style family argument.  Real hate is often much
 CJ> politer *on the surface* than venting or a screaming argument,
 CJ> but it's much more dangerous.
 CJ>     Just as there's many different types of opponent sports,
 CJ> ranging from chess to fencing and boxing, so there's many types
 CJ> of posting styles and echoes.  What's appropriate for one is not
 CJ> appropriate for the other, and vice versa.  If you saw someone
 CJ> doing kick boxing, would that "forever taint" him in your mind
 CJ> as a chess player?  Would you immediately dismiss the possibility
 CJ> of that person also being a loving parent and spouse?

You have it exactly right.  I suspect Constance secretly enjoys reading my 
posts in that echo, though.  Why else would she READ them, otherwise? Reminds 
me of the people who download porn from the web for -educational- purposes.  
Sure.

 CJ>     3) IMHO, there is an intelligible reason for the type of
 CJ> Joseph's posts in MAD DOG MATZDOBRE.  "Charles Hunter" has been
 CJ> claiming for a long time that no one has any legal right to post
 CJ> anything which he, Charles Hunter, considers blasphemous, and
 CJ> indeed has a long history of attempting to intimidate people
 CJ> with the threat of legal suits over this.  Joseph has even told
 CJ> CH that the entire reason for the series of the posts that you
 CJ> find so offensive is to, in effect, call his bluff.

Precisely right.  I see the need to expose Charles for what he is.  His ongoing 
threats, lies, and claims about rights must be challenged. :) His threat that 
his gods cannot be blasphemed in a FLAME echo (with Chuck as subject), of all 
places, is particularly amusing and just CALLS OUT to be challenged to show his 
utter dunderheaded folly.

 CJ> I certainly
 CJ> know which of the two is more offensive to me, and I know that many
 CJ> thinking Christians would consider CH's behavior much more of
 CJ> a blasphemy to the Christian spirit than Joseph's posts--and more
 CJ> dangerous to Christianity.

 CJ>     4) Joseph has been temperate in this echo (so far, anyway),
 CJ> and that really is what matters most in this echo.

Yes, it does.  I remain temperate here in keeping with the spirit and 
atmosphere of the echo.

 CJ>     5) To my knowledge, Joseph hasn't wished that CH castrate
 CJ> himself.  I suppose we still have to go to the saints for that
 CJ> type of language.

Nope, I certainly could never use stronger language than the holy book does.  
Afterall, I would never be happy to seize and smash little children against the 
rocks!  (Psalm 137:9)  How heinous!

  Joe

.... It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
--- FastEcho 1.46 (reg)
 * Origin: The Danse Macabre - joevoigt.home.texas.net (1:387/638)

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