Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Hutch on "impoliteness" (part B) Message-ID: <519@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 19:45:30 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.519 Posted: Mon Feb 11 19:45:30 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 06:29:40 EST References: <428@pyuxd.UUCP> <1777@pucc-h> <457@pyuxd.UUCP> <1247@shark.UUCP> Organization: Huxley College Lines: 44 On closer examination, I checked the last five articles (not including today's) to see where the "impoliteness" lay: <457@pyuxd.UUCP> - this is the very article Hutch is responding to, on the topic of constructive/destructive (hopefully some further constructive discussion will follow shortly in a later article) <458@pyuxd.UUCP> - a response to Dubuc's arrogance that may be construed as "impolite"; though I wonder what adjective would then apply to Paul's articles... ? <462@pyuxd.UUCP> - a response to an article on "death to gays", of which MY response was probably one of the tamest (some of the louder responses came from obviously devout Christians who told the guy that there was something wrong with him) <465@pyuxd.UUCP> - a response to Bill Peter whom I had mistakenly referred to as a Christian <488@pyuxd.UUCP> - an article in response to (and in agreement with) an article from Seifert/Snoopy on beneficial/harmful, asking (what *I* thought were) some intriguing questions and asking for responses I also examined earlier articles (there have been a total of 12, not 20, at least in this calendar year). Among the earlier ones were: 1) my requoting of Ken Arndt's claim that I was an apostate Jew defining Christianity (isn't that how it got defined in the first place?), 2) the dreaded "Blast from the Past" article, 3) my reposting of Dave Trissel's article on his own experiences with religions that claim "we are right and they are wrong" (that was REAL impolite of me to do...), 4) my first article in the constructive/destructive discussion ("why must everything be beneficial?"), 5) a reply to Marchionni, who was busily asking me questions and saying "too bad Rich Rosen won't ever understand this" in my presumed absence, and 6) my first article on Wingate's justification of proselytizing of Jewish children through manipulative pamphlets by a church in Jerusalem. (Later perusals of archives showed NO articles from me since at least mid-November!) I welcome Hutch to tell all of us which of these were the rare "polite" articles, and which were the less rare impolite ones, being sure to note which times I was "impolite" because of impoliteness directed at me. -- "Remember, if you enjoyed reading this article half as much as I enjoyed writing it, then I enjoyed it twice as much as *you* did!" Rich Rosen {ihnp4|harpo}!pyuxd!rlr