Helen Borrie wrote:

>At 01:37 PM 3/08/2004 +0200, Jonathan Neve wrote:
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>>>Ach, I spent a recent weekend repairing a database that got corrupted when
>>>a thunderstorm outage fzappt-ed a chunk of hard disk where a couple of
>>>pages of the company's database pages happened to be. Thunderstorms sans
>>>rain, natch, in a place that's locked in a three-year drought...company
>>>does backups in wet years...the Lord doth work in mysterious ways, his
>>>wonders to perform...
>>>
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>>Please Helen! This sort of religious talk
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>This is *religious* talk?
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Sure.

>>is at least off-topic here,
>>and could be downright offensive to any who do not share your religious
>>views...
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>What complete nonsense.
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Helen, why can't you be civil. My post was not insulting, like this. I
simply stated, cold-headedly, that I wish you would stop this sort of talk.

>I defy anyone to determine WHAT my religious views
>are, from my quoting perhaps the most-often quoted line from any hymn in
>the English tradition!!
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There's nothing wrong with the hymn... But why are you making fun of it?

>>If I were to post something on a religious topic in this list, everyone
>>would tell me I'm off-topic -- and rightly so.
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>FYI, this was and still is NOT a religious topic.
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It is. Poking for at religion is in itself a religious topic. Denying
religion is a religion in its own right.

>And, FYI, in the English
>legal tradition an Act of God is not a religious topic, it is a
>legally-recognised phenomenon. A drought is an Act of God. A thunderstorm
>is an Act of God.
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I realize that. If you had said nothing more, I wouldn't have said anything.

>>I therefore never post anything on this list that is of a non-technical
>>(religious) nature.
>>I think others should use the same self restraint. Poking fun at and
>>joking about God are both dangerous for yourself and offensive to
>>others, as well as very childish.
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>But it's OK for you to post pretentious, irrelevant and irrational
>back-chat, right?
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>

Certainly not. If I did such a thing, it would be wrong. What was
pretentious about my post? If I said something pretentious, what was it?
But if not, why are you flaming me?

Jonathan Neve.


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