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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Tim Maroney, are you out there?
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Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 06:36:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 20 06:36:09 1987
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In article <433@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM> denbeste@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
>Tim, that sounds suspiciously like an attempt to start a serious discussion.
>Just what is it doing in this group? If you want serious, take it to
>"soc.women" (or are you not welcome there anymore?). This group is for heat,
>not light...

Light flashes from my feet wherever I go.  I'm seeing a doctor about it this
week.

Of course I'm welcome on soc.women!  In fact, I frequently receive
complimentary letters for my postings there, more so than for any other
group in my five or six years on the net in fact.  (And I hope they keep
coing, but soc.women is so hard to keep up with....)

>By the way, about 5 years ago I was on the net and a regular contributor to
>"net.religion" as the resident atheist. In the midst of all the rabid
>christians, I remember another dissenter - this one a satanist. Wasn't
>that you?

Hmm.  Well, I didn't consider myself a Satanist then, and I still only use
the term to try to shock people out of their reality tunnels.  (My Satanism
is that of William Blake, George Bernard Shaw, and Aleister Crowley, not the
fool LaVey.)  My primary religious allegiance at the time was to Thelema;
now it is to eclectic nihilism.  But anyway, yes, it does sound like me.  By
the way, believe it or not, I have actually sold one of those old
net.religion messages (the new improved version, of course) to a national
magazine; it should be appearing in "Free Inquiry" some time in the next
year.

Damn, no real flames in this one, either.  How about this: SCUM-SUCKING
VERMIN!  DIE!  DIE!!  DIE!!!  There, that's much better.  I only flame about
once every two months these days, and only in response to direct attacks;
it's refreshing to be totally gratuitous again.
-- 
Tim Maroney, {ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg}!hoptoad!tim (uucp)
hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)