Re: Choosing one's fights, was Re: George W. Bush's Speech on September 20, 2001

From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 13:56:20 MDT


From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>

> Olga Bourlin wrote:
> >
> > > From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
> > > >
> > > > Maybe so. Me, I do the nontheism thing most of the time
> > > > in my own head but I don't proselytize.
> >
> > I can relate. I do lots of things in my own head, too. Right now, I am
> > thinking of a chicken, flapping its wings and going kluuuuuuck kluck ...
> > kluuuuuuuuuuck ... ;<>
>
> Whatever makes you happy. Me, I am counting slowly backwards from
> one hundred and reminding myself of the subject line I wrote:
> "choosing one's fights." :) If nontheists were being stoned to death
> in the streets of the US, I might deserve your label. I haven't seen
> that happening. Must be that goshdarned theistic press controlled by
> that theistic power elite suppressing the truth, huh?

> I repeat that I think a sheaf of strategies is useful; if you don't,
> that's human, and I can deal. Doctrinaire *anything* makes my skin itch.

I was trying to be humorous, not doctrinaire. I don't exactly know what you
mean by a sheaf of strategies - does that mean nontheists get a place at the
table or not?

Olga
> MMB
>
> "You know what heck is, right? It's where people go who don't believe in
gosh..."
>
> --
> Job One: MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL. If you're not part of the solution,
>
> what are you doing scumming up the bottom of our beaker? --MMB 02001.09.21



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