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Thank you for this post. Trendologist is having fun, but I think that it
has gone too far. Time to bring in the list moderators.<br><br>
Best,<br>
Natasha <br><br>
At 02:15 PM 10/24/04 +0000, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>T.O.<br>
I read statements like the one below and have to ask..<br>
" Is he serious about this or is it just trolling of some
kind?"<br>
I'm a southerner. I speak English with a drawl. I come from<br>
a long line of bible-thumpers (though I'm a rationalist/buddhist
sort<br>
myself). And I'm 2 generations off the farm.<br>
And yet I'm here on this list and a part of the transhumanist
<br>
community.<br>
We could sit in a cafe and discuss music, politics,
philosophy,<br>
martial arts.. any number of subjects.. and you might find I'm<br>
far more versed about things that (statistically) I'd expect you to<br>
know next to nothing about. DOubtless you have similar areas of<br>
private expertise. <br>
There is absolutely no excuse for the sort of post below,<br>
it's irrational in the extreme. Broad generalizations are not<br>
excusable simply by noting the offense just after you<br>
commit it.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Brian<br><br>
"Looks like Bush will win. Whatever the tally ends up <br>
being, must redneck Southerners be so aggressive with <br>
their culture? They don't like Yankee culture so they <br>
want to push something worse on us? Can't Southern men <br>
be content with their wives & mistresses and other <br>
'nookie'? I swear, the next time a guy with a drawl <br>
approaches to attempt to convert me to Christianity <br>
I'll spit on the ground. I'm totally tired of so many <br>
Southerners trying to inflict their religion on <br>
America; it's not love, it's hate disguised as love. <br>
And they want us to pity them for 140 years ago? <br>
Northerners weren't particularly interested in <br>
abolishing slavery, they bent over backwards to avoid <br>
the war yet Southerners wanted the Feds to guarantee <br>
slavery by using Federal agents to retrieve runaway <br>
slaves-- plus the South wanted other completely <br>
un-Christian measures to be instituted. <br>
Sure, this is all a generalization however I can't <br>
avoid thinking very many Southerners want some sort of <br>
revenge. <br><br>
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