Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/06/22:12:11
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote
> Ah jeez deFaria:
That's clever! Did you come up with that all by your lonesome?
>> As an atheist I always wonder why christians can "turn the other
>> cheek" but cannot seem to muster how to turn their eyes away!
>
> As a thinking man, I always wonder why atheists:
>
> 1. Hate Christianity, yet harbor no such hatred towards all the other
> religions.
I said not such thing. I think all religions are equally ridiculous! But
if you wish to partake in the fantasy then by all means do.
> 2. Would squeal bloody murder if fortune spit out Bible verses, yet
> are *proponents* of having it spit out outrageously profane limericks
> which are offensive to Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Men,
> Women, Children, Mothers, Fathers, Bosses, Frenchmen, and all breeds
> of dog in between.
I wouldn't squeal bloody murder. I'd simply say it's stupid. Fortune
already spits out a number of stupid things as well as some quite funny
things.
>> If you don't like it then what stops you from simply not looking at
>> it! Is something forcing you to use fortune or Cygwin or open and
>> look at the contents of that file?!?
>
> Is something telling me that fortune is loaded with material
> completely inappropriate for work environments, material which could
> conceivably even directly result in "harassment" claims? Answer there
> is "no" my friend.
Only if you'd claim harassment on yourself. To me anybody poking into my
machine deserves what they find.
>> [x] Because of the hub bub raised by the religious folk I had to
>> download and check it out whereas if they just ignored it so would
>> have I, proofing, once again, that by doing this they just draw more
>> attention to it and cause more harm than good.
>
> Ok, so you have actually been harmed by this.
Whoever said that?!?
> While I haven't, I can certainly agree with you that this profanity
> needs excision post haste.
Then you don't agree with me because I don't think it need excision.
Oh and this randomly chosen signature is appropo!
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