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From: jeffh@brl-tgr.ARPA (Jeff Hanes )
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: The Start of Something New (I hope)
Message-ID: <6450@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 08:24:11 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6450
Posted: Fri Dec  7 08:24:11 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 01:39:34 EST
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Reply-To: jeffh@brl-tgr.ARPA [ The Fantome Straynger ]
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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Summary: 

[ Mount soap box, gather my scattered thoughts, take a deep breath,
and away we go ... ]

I think that a great many people in this group have been treating
Jeff Sargent unfairly (WRT his recent article), not necessarily out of
malice, but out of a failure to understand what he is saying.  I have
seen a great many flames at Jeff that I had difficulty understanding
until I tried to put myself in the shoes of the writer (probably
unsuccessfully, but I try).  It seems that whenever his basic beliefs
conflict with someone else's, he gets flamed, WHETHER OR NOT he
actually attacked them.  I, on the other hand, agree with his basic
view of life (i.e. Christian), so I have little difficulty understanding
the points he tries to make (this does NOT mean I always agree with
him).  I think if the the readers of the net would try to put them-
selves in Jeff's shoes and exercise more open-minded-ness, they might
find that he has some intriguing and unusual things to say.  I certainly
enjoy reading YOUR views on life (even though I often disagree).

Now, I would also like to address this idea that Christian morals
do not belong in net.singles.  There are a fair number of Christians
out there on the net (evidence:  the traffic on net.religion and/or
net.origins) and probably a lot of them are single.  They have needs
and interests which are unique to them as Christian singles and
thus, belong right here in net.singles.  This is NOT net.rec.sex,
and should not be considered open only to sexually active singles.

I do not believe that sex is EVIL, only that it has a proper place
(i.e. marriage).  Is that so hard to live with?  Why can't we all
learn to accept each other as we are (generally imperfect, although
there MAY be some exceptions :-), and discuss our opinions freely.
If you don't agree with what I say, at least consider it in the
light it is offered, as an attempt to understand you and respond
to your needs in the best way that I know based on my own experience.

And I will do you the same courtesy.

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