Re: An Honest Queston

Steve Schaffner wrote:

> "Deadrat" <ephemera1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>"Chris Thompson" <cthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>"Deadrat" <ephemera1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>>>>"rev.goetz" <jimgoetz316@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>>Noone Inparticular wrote:
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>>>>>>willreich_77@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>>>>>>Creatinists postulate a god who created the world. Also, he is
>>>>>>>benevolent and loving. On the other hoof, he has these rules he
>>>>>>>wants enforced. Leaving aside the general idea, I have one
>>>>>>>specific question:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I counted seven.....
>>>>>
>>>>>I counted eight questions.
>>>>
>>>>Give Will a break here. He obviously hasn't asked himself the most
>>>>important question of all -- How did I f**k up my life so badly that I
>>>>ended up in New Haven?
>>>>
>>>>Deadrat
>>>
>>>You're all missing the point. The post was titled "An Honest Question".
>>>It's immaterial how many questions are posed in the post. We just have
>>>to figure out which one was the _honest_ question.
>>>
>>>Chris
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>>Missing the point? I don't think so. Have you ever been to New Haven?
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>
> Hey, I spent a half dozen years in New Haven, and I have many happy
> memories: Calling the police to report a burglery... Watching rows of
> sleeping homeless in the train station... Calling the police to report
> a mugging... Sprinting out of the physics building every night to
> avoid lurking muggers... Calling the police to report a different
> mugging... Chatting with a local heroin addict about the ethics of
> mugging... Calling the police to report a purse snatching... Watching
> a couple of kids sawing through our front porch railing to steal a
> bicycle... Calling the police to report a purse snatching from a
> prostitute... Long conversations with the paranoid schizophrenic who
> stayed with us from time to time... Calling the police to report my
> own imminent mugging.
>
> Good times.
>
Ok I get the message, New Haven is where mugging is the social pastime.
josephus

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