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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.230506.13642@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1992Dec29.165301.15018@nynexst.com> <lk168jINN42f@news.bbn.com> <1992Dec29.214626.17504@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 23:05:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.214626.17504@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
- >In article <lk168jINN42f@news.bbn.com> pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) writes:
- >
- >>On the contrary -- it falls into the category of friendly hassling and is
- >>included in increase group bonding.
- >
- > Friendly hassling of whom? What if I were to say "I'm surrounded
- >by Jews"? Would that fall into the same category?
-
- I don't understand what could be interpreted as offensive or even
- hassling about it--would you be offended if someone from an all-female
- school posted a complaint about having a hard time meeting elligible
- males and said, "I'm surrounded by women"?
-
- >> Dating someone outside of
- >>one's faith goes well for a while, but how can you respect someone whose
- >>entire religious beeing is based on error?
- >
- > This was meant as a joke, wasn't it?
-
- Nah--probably just friendly hassling. Personally, I don't think that it's
- that much of an impediment to respect--I just think of religions like any
- other mental illness; it's not like they always prevent people from
- living productive lives and even being perfectly pleasant people to spend
- time with.
-
- Trygve
- --
- "God: a mythical being created by a recent primate species
- because they just couldn't imagine all this stuff lying
- around without an alpha male in charge of it."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
-