Subj : Extent of the Torah
To   : CONSTANCE RAWLEY
From : Curtis Johnson
Date : Tue Oct 24 2000 05:59 pm

 -=> Quoting CONSTANCE RAWLEY to JOSEPH VOIGT <=-

 TH> resident FIDO hatemongers will.   
 CR> 
 JV> Untrue accusation about hate.   
 CR> 
 CR> I've seen your vulgar, obscene posts in the "Mad Dog Matzdobre" and  
 CR> "Holy Smoke" echoes, and I think "resident FIDO hatemongers" is an   
 CR> applicable description. Your posts to Matzdobre are the most filthy, 
 CR> the most disgusting that I've seen. I wish I had not seen them.   
 CR> Every time I see your name in this forum, your coarse, horrible,   
 CR> repulsive posts come to mind. They will forever taint any thoughts   
 CR> that I might have concerning your claims in this or any forum.   
 CR> You _are_ a resident FIDO hatemonger!   
	
	1) You're trying to provoke him into doing the same here, 
aren't you?  Really, aren't you?

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

	3) IMHO, there is an intelligible reason for the type of
Joseph's posts in MAD DOG MATZDOBRE.  "Charles Hunter" has been
claiming for a long time that no one has any legal right to post
anything which he, Charles Hunter, considers blasphemous, and 
indeed has a long history of attempting to intimidate people
with the threat of legal suits over this.  Joseph has even told
CH that the entire reason for the series of the posts that you
find so offensive is to, in effect, call his bluff.  I certainly
know which of the two is more offensive to me, and I know that many
thinking Christians would consider CH's behavior much more of
a blasphemy to the Christian spirit than Joseph's posts--and more
dangerous to Christianity.

	4) Joseph has been temperate in this echo (so far, anyway),
and that really is what matters most in this echo.		 
       
	5) To my knowledge, Joseph hasn't wished that CH castrate
himself.  I suppose we still have to go to the saints for that
type of language.


	




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