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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Help
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Date: 20 Sep 90 03:05:15 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

-> In a message to Gary Petraccaro  <09-10-90 11:03> Walter Siren  wrote:
->
-> WS>  GP>       In that message you didn't understand, I was refering to the
-> WS>  GP>  attempts
-> WS>  GP>  some religious types have made to have god perform a WS> healing.
-> WS>  GP>  Dislike it
-> WS>  GP>   intensely.  Fortunately, it's not common.
-> WS>
-> WS>      Hey I agree with you.  I believe in prayer, but the
-> WS> days of miracles were over in the first centry.

     Well, I can't speak to this last, but my reaction was based on the
perception that they wouldn't have been laying on hands, so to speak, if
they had been more accepting of me as a person instead of trying to score
points with the big guy.  Maybe I'm misperceiving, but that's the way it
looked at the time.  Other intensely religious types never even gave that a
thought and just took me as they found me.

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