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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: PRO-LIFE SEASON'S GREETINGS
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- References: <nyikos.725557125@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Dec29.052604.26318@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:47:35 GMT
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- In <1992Dec29.052604.26318@samba.oit.unc.edu> Suzanne-lucia.Demitrio@launchpad.unc.edu (Suzanne-lucia Demitrio) writes:
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- >In article <nyikos.725557125@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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- >>I wish a happy Christmas season to everyone, including the abortionists,
- >>those super-Grinches
-
- >Can't you even say "Happy Christmas" without smirking and pontificating?
-
- Howdy, stranger. I don't recall ever following up to you before, but
- I think it's time we got acquainted.
-
- You were forewarned by the thread title. I had a non-pontificating wish
- in an earlier post, whose title also mentioned Christmas.
-
- I hope I haven't offended you by leaving your name off the list of
- people who require a mountain of evidence before taking any evidence
- of false statements by Susan Garvin seriously, while taking her word
- (or flimsy wisps of evidence) about other people lying.
-
- If I did, my apologies.
-
- >>Were it not for the above HOPE ["that there is a life after death and a
- >>very powerful, very merciful God"]
-
- >... then you wouldn't be celebrating Christmas, Petey dear. Never mind
- >your abortion position.
-
- Ever hear of Santa Claus? ACLU? Santa balancing creche scenes?
-
- I think *Lots* of people celebrate Christmas without nurturing any
- such hope as the above. Even Ebenezer Scrooge, even at the end of
- the book, gives no hint of hoping there is a God.
-
- >>Finally, here is a special Christmas season wish to those little ones
- >>whom I sometimes fondly call "Whos from Whoville", aborted by the
- >>super-Grinches, that they may indeed experience their First Birth
-
- >You'd like the 'little ones' who have already been *aborted* to experience
- >birth? Are you a reincarnationist, or just incoherent?
-
- It was an allusion to the "Second Birth" in "Hark the Herald Angels Sing."
-
- I say this for the benefit of people who tuned in late, since you know
- damn well what I was talking about, having deleted my long painstaking
- explanation of what I meant by "First Birth."
-
- Yes, I do believe apologies are in order *all around*.
-
- >To append my (belated) wishes to Peter's ...
-
- >I hope that everyone, regardless of faith or politics, had a merry and
- >blessed December, and I wish you all an exciting and prosperous new year.
-
- On this, at least we are in agreement. I hereby add my wishes to yours.
-
- Peter Nyikos
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