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Re: *Please* keep religous stuff Off-List! (was: Re: TI-H: Bill Gates is the Anti-christ)




it's still fairly entertaining.  it may have no place here, but who cares?
the list is low-volume anyway, and few threads ever get out of hand.

--nick

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----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Adam Davis" <adavis@ubasics.com>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: *Please* keep religous stuff Off-List! (was: Re: TI-H: Bill
Gates is the Anti-christ)


>
> I know that.  I have my own archive of the messages since 11/11/98, and
> it still does not belong here.  It generated over 30 messages in a 4 day
> period of complete drivel.
>
> I know, someone is going to pop up and say (pick one):
> "All you have to do is hit delete!"
> "Just think of this as one big party, and we are all generally talking
> on topic, but we also just talk"
> "We really don't think of this list as a good resource, we just use it
> as a place to take dumps."  (Actually, no one says this, I'm just
> paraphrasing the first two lines)
>
> It appears to me as though this list has several people on it who
> actually do something with ti-hardware occasionally.  Everyone else is
> just lurking.  When nothing is going on, some lurkers feel like
> contributing, but they don't have anything useful to contribute.  So
> they squat down, take a dump, and send it to the rest of us.
>
> Anyway.  I just thought I'd *try* to head this thread off before it
> starts up again.  I really don't see any use in talking about religious
> stuff here.
>
> -Adam
>
> (I hope I do not offend any of you with my analogy, I certianly was not
> aiming it at anyone in particular.)
>
> P.S. No, it was *not* a reminder of a topic, it was two people telling
> us that they don't believe in Christ, and why.  That is a new topic
> starting from an old one.  This new topic could generate MANY more
> responses than the bill gates/anti-christ topic.
>
> Giles Pollock wrote:
> >
> > it was just a reminder of the topic, check the archives for august, its
there as well
> >
> > M. Adam Davis wrote:
> >
> > > I would *really* appreciate it if we could keep the religious stuff
off
> > > list.  I can understand talking about electronics, linux, computers,
> > > calculators and other issues surrounding TI-HARDWARE...
> > >
> > > BUT  religous, political,  and personal issues have no place here.
They
> > > only clog the channel.
> > >
> > > Of course, you are free to ignore me and my plea.  I imagine most
> > > individuals here understand that this really is the best thing to do.
> > >
> > > -Adam
> > >
> > > Giles Pollock wrote:
> > > >
> > > > i know, i was looking through my 842 messages and saw it... i also
agree with that
> > > > thing on christ... (how did the wise men come from the east, after
seeing the star in
> > > > the east?) all directions were east then?
> > > >
> > > > David Wilson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Oh, God no, not again. Billy Gates is not the "Anti-christ" for
the simple reason
> > > > > that there was no Christ in the first place.
> > > > >
> > > > > -David
>
>



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