Re: An Honest Queston

josephus <dogbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Steve Schaffner wrote:
>
> > "Deadrat" <ephemera1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >
> >>"Chris Thompson" <cthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>news:Xns9747C578D738EcthompsonTAKEOUTbmcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>>"Deadrat" <ephemera1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> >>>news:eeWwf.15971$oW.14831@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>"rev.goetz" <jimgoetz316@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>>>news:1136929604.499224.196230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>
> >>>>>Noone Inparticular wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>willreich_77@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>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
> >>
> >>Missing the point? I don't think so. Have you ever been to New Haven?
> >
> >
> > 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

More like a major economic activity. New Haven has a great deal of
severe poverty. When I was there (fifteen years ago), it was a
depressed, largely black post-industrial city with a rich, largely
white university and teaching hospital stuck in the middle of it. The
two worlds did not mesh well.

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Steve Schaffner sfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Immediate assurance is an excellent sign of probable lack of
insight into the topic. Josiah Royce

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