Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!hlexa!hsf From: hsf@hlexa.UUCP (Henry Friedman) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: flame bashers "know not what they do" Message-ID: <4715@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 16:38:56 EST Article-I.D.: hlexa.4715 Posted: Thu Oct 31 16:38:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 16:08:08 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 34 Seems it's fashionable on the net lately to trash net.flame as worthless garbage. Even defenders can only muster a patronizing: "We need it to keep the garbage from polluting the rest of the net." But did you ever think what J.C. would do in lieu of overturning money-changers' tables if he were to return. Would he camp out on the steps of the Pentagon or the Kremlin? Would he take out a full page ad in the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal? No, what he'd do is log onto USENET and post a flame; that's what he'd do. Something like: How dare you idiots waste lives and resources fighting and killing one another WHEN CHILDREN ARE STARVING WHEN YOUR BROTHERS LIE FREEZING AND NAKED IN YOUR STREETS WHEN YOU ARE STILL DYING HORRIBLE DEATHS FROM ALL KINDS OF HORRIBLE DISEASES that you haven't yet figured out how to cure. And how dare you idiots kill one another IN MY FATHER'S NAME, taking HIS NAME IN VAIN!! ----- Now you'll ask, does this guy think that HE's Jesus----naah, I'm not well adjusted enough--besides, I don't even believe in souls. But then again, those GUYS up in the sky can't do anything unless one of us does it for them. --Henry Friedman