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From: mat@mtx5b.UUCP (Mark Terribile)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: The Old Ways - final comments
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 01:25:54 EDT
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> We've been through this before.  A public forum is a public forum.  It
> doesn't "belong" to anyone or any group.  There is a private mailing list in
> existence which is a private forum.  I post general topics to net.religion,
> otherwise I post to specific group(s) (and possibly the general group as
> well).
> -- 
> Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
> 					Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr

Bull paddies, Rich!  The net is a limited bandwidth channel.  There are many
limitations, chief among them the time that most of us can spend reading
netnews.  Any individual can abuse the channel by flooding it with noise.
Noise, remember, is any unwanted signal energy or perturbation.

Fact is, Rich, you are loudly talking about how you can't stand hearing others
telling people what to believe and preaching tolerance yourself while flooding
the common medium with repeated slurs on other peoples' beliefs.  Even when
you are speaking in reasnable tones of voice, you are repeating the same
propaganda that you subjected us to the week before.

Proclaiming your virtues while your actions contradict your words is a powerful
technique of propaganda: it is called The Big Lie.  The USSR is very good at
it, and you are not half bad at it yourself.  But we don't want to know how
well you present the Big Lie.  We who use these groups for their chartered
purpose -- which is NOT prosthlytization, Rich -- we would appreciate it if
you were to stop prosthletizing for your own beliefs.

In ``How To Win Friends and Influence People (Revised for the 80's) Dale
Carnagie's wife (who was responsible for the revision) tells about the time
that Dr. Martin Luther King publicly praised a black air force officer who had
just become the first black general in that branch of the armed forces.
Someone took him to task:  how could a pacifist possibly praise a man who had
just gotten more authority in the waging of war?  Dr. King replied  ``I judge
men by their standards, not mine.''  Rich Rosen would do well to profit from
this great man's example.  All you do is assign evil motives to those whose
beliefs differ from yours.

In plain language: Stuff it, Rich.
-- 

	from Mole End			Mark Terribile
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