On Aug 11, 7:11*pm, sarah gray > wrote:
> Graham stereo > wrote :
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> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:57:00 GMT, sarah gray wrote:
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> >> Graham stereo > wrote in
> >> news:972h845zatgz.zsiy8ld7sm4n :
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> >>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:26:21 GMT, sarah gray wrote:
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> >>>> Dave > wrote in
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> >>>>> sarah gray wrote:
> >>>>>> Lynn from Fargo > wrote in news:9dc0487b-7261-
> >> 4397-
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> >>>>>>>On Aug 10, 6:38 pm, "kilikini" >
> >>>>>>>wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>sarah gray wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>>Sheldon > wrote in
> >>>>>>>>>news:fe820bf4-5f63-44b9-92ec-
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> >>>>>> :
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> >>>>>>>>>><hillbilly> wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>>>>We have this thing called global awareness. As I
> >>>>>>>>>>>see in the news lately, there are even several other
> >>>>>>>>>>>languages spoken on
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> >>>>>>>>>>the
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> >>>>>>>>>>>planet other than American.
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> >>>>>>>>>>American is a language... duh... that's why you're rotting in
> >>>>>>>>>>Florida.
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> >>>>>>>>>Dude, *everything* rots in Florida. Methinks it's the humidity.
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> >>>>>>>>>(ducks)
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> >>>>>>>>>Saerah
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> >>>>>>>>ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *We just came to terms with the fact
> >>>>>>>>that
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> >>>>>> we'r
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> >>>>>>>e
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> >>>>>>>>grandparents living in FL! *We're only 40 years old, but my
> >>>>>>>>gosh,
> >> we
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> >>>>>> fi
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> >>>>>>>t!
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> >>>>>>>>ACK!
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> >>>>>>>>kili
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> >>>>>>>I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous!
> >>>>>>>I'm 59 and not a grandchild in sight. *She is "betrothed". *
> >> Everybody
> >>>>>>>pray. *She says if she gets pregnant they'll get married sooner.
> >> (at
> >>>>>>>least I got the marriage B4 babies part right!)
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> >>>>>>>Lynn in Fargo
> >>>>>>>Suffering from several chronic diseases with one foot dangling .
> >>>>>>>.
> >> .
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> >>>>>> heh. I'm 28, my daughter is 6. If I'm a grandmother before I'm
> >>>>>> 45,
> >>>> I'll
> >>>>>> be *upset* 
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> >>>>> I used to supervise a woman who was a granny at the grand old age
> >>>>> of
> >>>> 30.
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> >>>>> Dave
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> >>>> Birth control for teenagers needs to be mandatory!
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> >>>> Saerah
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> >>> ....and to religious fundamentalists of all stripes!
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> >> Ugh, tell me about it. I got a nasty email from a coworker of mine
> >> who overheard me say "goddamnit" when my plastic spoon broke while
> >> trying to get a bite of half-frozen chicken salad (the fridge at work
> >> is way too cold).
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> >> Apparently I took "the Lord's" name in vain. I replied that I was
> >> sorry she was offended by anything she had overheard me say to
> >> myself, but also that I did not have a "Lord" and did not appreciate
> >> her proselytizing.
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> > Good for you!!!
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> > Since when do Christians have a monopoly on the word
> >> "god"?
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> >> I totally want to hang up a huge pentagram in my cubicle where she
> >> can see it.
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> > She'd probably sue you for harassment!! *Why not have Richard Dawkins
> > or Sam Harris as a pin-up?
> > Graham
>
> I doubt she'd know who either of them was. If she can have bible
> quotations pinned up around her cubicle, I see no reason why I can't put
> something significant to *my* spiritual development up.
>
> Though it would be mostly to **** her off; I've dabbled in neo-pagan
> stuff, but have since come to the realization that while I think there
> are truisms in most religions, *faith* in the existence (as opposed to
> *belief*) in a "higher power" is not necessarily one of them. I'd like
> to believe that the universe has a purpose, but I can't justify the
> atrocities our species has caused to happen and also believe in an
> immanent god. I have a lot of respect for people with genuine faith, on
> the occasions when it inspires them to do good works. I have to say this
> seems to be the minority, however.
>
> Saerah (who hopes there is *something* after we die, because 80 years or
> so really isn't that long)
>
Someone once opined that belief is blindly clinging to what one was
taught, while true faith requires openess and acceptance to what one
experiences and learns to be true. He mighta been wrong though.