Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume characters in
Usenet.

The King of Numb-de-Plums on Usenet was a guy whose original nick was
Smush. At one time he had used over 230 different and unique nicks and
every one of them was funny as hell and said as much about the subject
being flamed as the posts themselves. Guy was amazing.

Ah yes - those were the days when flame wars were exercises in
creativity and style - not this screaming choke fest you see nowadays.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

I can't imagine any supreme being taking the time to laugh at my joke
while allowing other humans to kill innocent men, women and children.

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

Tim wrote:
On Jun 23, 6:27 pm, jps wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:58:56 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 23, 5:50 pm, jps wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:21:51 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:
On Jun 23, 3:39 pm, jps wrote:
You are a naive fellow if you think there isn't a debt incurred.
I know my family and I know how their mission works. Tell you what.
Why don't you go to Panama and stay for a month and see for yourself.
I have.
Yes, I'm sure it does. Their mission works by creating a moral
dilemma for whomever is receiving the free medical attention.
This is the same way bin Laden works. He builds schools, provides
medical care and feeds people and in return they pledge allegiance to
his cause.
It's a very simple exchange that works very well.
bin Laden is a missionary.
You're welcome to feel that way if you wish.
His followers do. I know the score, do you?

Which score?


He's an idiot...but you already knew that.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 6:52*pm, jps wrote:

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Thanks! I'll take the former option and you can have the latter.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:10 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:52*pm, jps wrote:

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Thanks! I'll take the former option and you can have the latter.

I don't get the feeling it's your choice. Nice try.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 7:24*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:10 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:52*pm, jps wrote:

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Thanks! I'll take the former option and you can have the latter.

I don't get the feeling it's your choice. *Nice try.

Great try. and I do have a choice.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:20 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:24*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:10 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:52*pm, jps wrote:

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Thanks! I'll take the former option and you can have the latter.

I don't get the feeling it's your choice. *Nice try.

Great try. and I do have a choice.

Uh no, you don't. If you think you do, then it's just a matter of
proving it.

Oh, you can't? Have to take it on faith? You betcha.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

If it doesn't, maybe Jesus will step in!

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:06:53 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

You need to figure out how to use filters

You guys need to learn how to snip.

Jeezum pete.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 8:01*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:20 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 7:24*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:10 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:52*pm, jps wrote:

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Thanks! I'll take the former option and you can have the latter.

I don't get the feeling it's your choice. *Nice try.

Great try. and I do have a choice.

Uh no, you don't. *If you think you do, then it's just a matter of
proving it.

Oh, you can't? *Have to take it on faith? *You betcha.

Of course I have a choice on if I wish to have a faith or not, and I
have a choice on how to practice what the faith teaches. And what
faith I have I need to prove to no one.

As brilliant as you claim to be I'm surprised you have a difficult
time deciphering that logic.

but it doesn't matter. You have the right, just as I, to believe and
feel however you may.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 8:02*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! *It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

If it doesn't, maybe Jesus will step in!

Step in and do what?

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:14 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 8:01*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:20 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 7:24*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:10 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:52*pm, jps wrote:

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Thanks! I'll take the former option and you can have the latter.

I don't get the feeling it's your choice. *Nice try.

Great try. and I do have a choice.

Uh no, you don't. *If you think you do, then it's just a matter of
proving it.

Oh, you can't? *Have to take it on faith? *You betcha.

Of course I have a choice on if I wish to have a faith or not, and I
have a choice on how to practice what the faith teaches. And what
faith I have I need to prove to no one.

As brilliant as you claim to be I'm surprised you have a difficult
time deciphering that logic.

but it doesn't matter. You have the right, just as I, to believe and
feel however you may.

I have no trouble with you having the right to believe as you see fit
but I certainly have a problem when your lot tells me I'm not going to
heaven because I haven't subscribed to their brand.

If it's there, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

If it's not, neither of us will be disappointed.

I'm not counting on it.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:52 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 8:02*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! *It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

If it doesn't, maybe Jesus will step in!

Step in and do what?

Magic!

He regularly takes sides in sports contests, don't you know?

He was at Bush's side when Bush was deciding (he was the decider, you
know) to invade Iraq and put our military in harm's way.

It was Jesus vs. Mohammed.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 11:54*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:52 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 8:02*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! *It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

If it doesn't, maybe Jesus will step in!

Step in and do what?

Magic!

He regularly takes sides in sports contests, don't you know?

He was at Bush's side when Bush was deciding (he was the decider, you
know) to invade Iraq and put our military in harm's way.

It was Jesus vs. Mohammed.

Really? is that how it worked?

Well, what do you know? it's news to me...

I always thought it was Bush and allies went to war with terrorist
extremeists?

I didn't know that Jesus was going to be duking it out with Mohammed.


maybe that's what you saw?

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 24, 11:50*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:14 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 8:01*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:20 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:24*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:10 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:52*pm, jps wrote:

Make whatever rationalization suits your existence, it's yours to own
and take along to your glorious afterlife.

Or your reincarnation as an earthworm.

Thanks! I'll take the former option and you can have the latter.

I don't get the feeling it's your choice. *Nice try.

Great try. and I do have a choice.

Uh no, you don't. *If you think you do, then it's just a matter of
proving it.

Oh, you can't? *Have to take it on faith? *You betcha.

Of course I have a choice on if I wish to have a faith or not, and I
have a choice on how to practice what the faith teaches. And what
faith I have I need to prove to no one.

As brilliant as you claim to be I'm surprised you have a difficult
time deciphering that logic.

but it doesn't matter. You have the right, just as I, to believe and
feel however you may.

I have no trouble with you having the right to believe as you see fit
but I certainly have a problem when your lot tells me I'm not going to
heaven because I haven't subscribed to their brand.

If it's there, I'll be pleasantly surprised. *

If it's not, neither of us will be disappointed.

I'm not counting on it.

No one said you have to....

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume characters
in
Usenet.

The King of Numb-de-Plums on Usenet was a guy whose original nick was
Smush. At one time he had used over 230 different and unique nicks and
every one of them was funny as hell and said as much about the subject
being flamed as the posts themselves. Guy was amazing.

Ah yes - those were the days when flame wars were exercises in
creativity and style - not this screaming choke fest you see nowadays.

Lots of the same old, same old in here. Very repetitions.

Back in the day, was there all the foul mouthed, family insulting, trash
talk? Or was it skillful use of language without all the garbage?

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:11:39 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 11:54*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:52 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 8:02*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! *It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

If it doesn't, maybe Jesus will step in!

Step in and do what?

Magic!

He regularly takes sides in sports contests, don't you know?

He was at Bush's side when Bush was deciding (he was the decider, you
know) to invade Iraq and put our military in harm's way.

It was Jesus vs. Mohammed.

Really? is that how it worked?

Well, what do you know? it's news to me...

I always thought it was Bush and allies went to war with terrorist
extremeists?

I didn't know that Jesus was going to be duking it out with Mohammed.


maybe that's what you saw?

That's what the Muslims saw. The crusades.

What I saw was a deluded idiot shadow boxing against an opponent for
whom he had no appreciation or sense.

Simple Jesus believing man who thought God had chosen him to be
President. Didn't realize it was the supreme court.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:18:14 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume characters
in
Usenet.

The King of Numb-de-Plums on Usenet was a guy whose original nick was
Smush. At one time he had used over 230 different and unique nicks and
every one of them was funny as hell and said as much about the subject
being flamed as the posts themselves. Guy was amazing.

Ah yes - those were the days when flame wars were exercises in
creativity and style - not this screaming choke fest you see nowadays.

Lots of the same old, same old in here. Very repetitions.

Back in the day, was there all the foul mouthed, family insulting, trash
talk? Or was it skillful use of language without all the garbage?

Master works of invective that were sheer works of poetry.

One, a guy who went by the name Deacon, was particularly skillful.

And of course, who could forget Gharlane of Eddore - there was a guy
who could write a sentence that would make your eyes water laughing as
he was slipping the shiv to somebody.

Good times - good times. :)

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:21:58 -0400, Yogi of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:18:14 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
. ..
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume characters
in
Usenet.

The King of Numb-de-Plums on Usenet was a guy whose original nick was
Smush. At one time he had used over 230 different and unique nicks and
every one of them was funny as hell and said as much about the subject
being flamed as the posts themselves. Guy was amazing.

Ah yes - those were the days when flame wars were exercises in
creativity and style - not this screaming choke fest you see nowadays.

Lots of the same old, same old in here. Very repetitions.

Back in the day, was there all the foul mouthed, family insulting, trash
talk? Or was it skillful use of language without all the garbage?

Master works of invective that were sheer works of poetry.

One, a guy who went by the name Deacon, was particularly skillful.

And of course, who could forget Gharlane of Eddore - there was a guy
who could write a sentence that would make your eyes water laughing as
he was slipping the shiv to somebody.

Good times - good times. :)

Yogi. That's as in Yogi and Boo Boo, right?

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in
no way are to be considered flaws or defects

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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You missed some.

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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
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You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:44:15 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...

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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

Did y'all ever consider that maybe he was just trying to keep the
thread alive?
--
John H

"HONK - if I'm paying your mortgage!"

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Jun 25, 2:20*am, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:11:39 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 11:54*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:52 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 8:02*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! *It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

If it doesn't, maybe Jesus will step in!

Step in and do what?

Magic!

He regularly takes sides in sports contests, don't you know?

He was at Bush's side when Bush was deciding (he was the decider, you
know) to invade Iraq and put our military in harm's way.

It was Jesus vs. Mohammed.

Really? is that how it worked?

Well, what do you know? it's news to me...

I always thought it was Bush and allies went to war with terrorist
extremeists?

I didn't know that Jesus was going to be duking it out with Mohammed.

maybe that's what you saw?

That's what the Muslims saw. *The crusades.

What I saw was a deluded idiot shadow boxing against an opponent for
whom he had no appreciation or sense.

Simple Jesus believing man who thought God had chosen him to be
President. *Didn't realize it was the supreme court.

If that is what you wish......

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
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You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in
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Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Are we discussing trigonometry now?
--
John H

"HONK - if I'm paying your mortgage!"

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Why would we discuss geometry?

Wait - what are we discussing?

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:58:22 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Are we discussing trigonometry now?

ROTFL!!!

Great minds and all that.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.
I'd say he missed a lot.
I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Why would we discuss geometry?

Wait - what are we discussing?

That is what is wrong with you old guys, you can't follow a simple
thread. ;)

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in
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Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

John H wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.
I'd say he missed a lot.
I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Are we discussing trigonometry now?
--
John H

"HONK - if I'm paying your mortgage!"

Yes, what did you think we were talking about?

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:14:14 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.
I'd say he missed a lot.
I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Why would we discuss geometry?

Wait - what are we discussing?

That is what is wrong with you old guys, you can't follow a simple
thread. ;)

Old Timer's Disease.

Well, that and we confuse easily.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:46:59 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 25, 2:20*am, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:11:39 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jun 24, 11:54*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:52 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 8:02*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 7:23*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:22*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 24, 12:37*pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:54*am, HK wrote:

What fundamentalist religions do, religions like the white southern
baptists, is try to push their alleged principles, precepts, beliefs,
and bull**** onto others, and onto society generally.

Harry. religions help to form societies. some for the good and some
for the not so good.

Atheistic thinking does too. Just ask Karl Marx.

As if all atheists are Marxists.

How Rushian of you.

"Rushian?"

If you mean R. Limbag, I haven't listened to him in probably two
years.

He inhabits your soul. *He's a good Christian.

Jon, I can just imagine Jesus is looking down and laughing his butt
off at that statement you just made.

LOL!

Hey Tim, when I called the dealer, I'd talked to an underling. The
boss called me back a while ago to tell me they check out the gas
situation at no charge. That's not bad! He also promised to get it
done the day I brought it down.

COOL! *It sounded like a real bummer at first. But now that I think
about it, the dealership doesn't have anything to gain by being
abrupt.

especially on a year old brand new boat.

hope all goes well, John.

If it doesn't, maybe Jesus will step in!

Step in and do what?

Magic!

He regularly takes sides in sports contests, don't you know?

He was at Bush's side when Bush was deciding (he was the decider, you
know) to invade Iraq and put our military in harm's way.

It was Jesus vs. Mohammed.

Really? is that how it worked?

Well, what do you know? it's news to me...

I always thought it was Bush and allies went to war with terrorist
extremeists?

I didn't know that Jesus was going to be duking it out with Mohammed.

maybe that's what you saw?

That's what the Muslims saw. *The crusades.

What I saw was a deluded idiot shadow boxing against an opponent for
whom he had no appreciation or sense.

Simple Jesus believing man who thought God had chosen him to be
President. *Didn't realize it was the supreme court.

If that is what you wish......

Where did I wish anything? What I'd wish for is that evangelicals
would wake up from their little dream world.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:10:39 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:58:22 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Are we discussing trigonometry now?

ROTFL!!!

Great minds and all that.

Lowest common denominator would make that an impossibility.

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:09:40 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:51:21 -0400, "Reginald P Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:08:10 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Reginald P Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
...
--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

This Newsgroup post is a natural product. The slight variations in
spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no
way are to be considered flaws or defects
You missed some.

I'd say he missed a lot.

I missed what you meant by that statement. Is that a complement?

Why would we discuss geometry?

Wait - what are we discussing?

Complements.
--
John H

"HONK - if I'm paying your mortgage!"

Death of a religious sect on the horizon?
 

"Yogi of Woodstock" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:18:14 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
. ..
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:11:15 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

Careful, you're approaching the maximum allowable nom de plume
characters
in
Usenet.

The King of Numb-de-Plums on Usenet was a guy whose original nick was
Smush. At one time he had used over 230 different and unique nicks and
every one of them was funny as hell and said as much about the subject
being flamed as the posts themselves. Guy was amazing.

Ah yes - those were the days when flame wars were exercises in
creativity and style - not this screaming choke fest you see nowadays.

Lots of the same old, same old in here. Very repetitions.

Back in the day, was there all the foul mouthed, family insulting, trash
talk? Or was it skillful use of language without all the garbage?

Master works of invective that were sheer works of poetry.

One, a guy who went by the name Deacon, was particularly skillful.

And of course, who could forget Gharlane of Eddore - there was a guy
who could write a sentence that would make your eyes water laughing as
he was slipping the shiv to somebody.

Good times - good times. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharlan...dore_(Pen-name)