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- From: lightnin@realsoon.WPI.EDU (Await the Stones)
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- Subject: Re: A gender neutral pronoun, was Fundamentalist Nightmare
- Date: 6 Nov 92 11:38:05
- Organization: DeityCo: Major and Minor Deities Placement Agency
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- In-reply-to: bigbro@netlink.cts.com's message of Thu, 05 Nov 92 15:26:58 PST
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- bigbro is defined as the person who on,
- On Thu, 05 Nov 92 15:26:58 PST,
- said:
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- bigbro> greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) writes:
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- > To me, both of these positions seem equally dumb.
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- bigbro> Excatly, in any situation there can be a reasonable
- bigbro> explaination and solution, but people will always carry it to
- bigbro> extremes, and screw it up. Like enviromentalists, the
- bigbro> enviroment, in my opinion is a worthy cause, however I do not
- bigbro> feel like admitting it when EARTH FIRST! fools put stakes into
- bigbro> trees to hurt the loggers....nor can I agree with those who
- bigbro> are so mad at these extremeists, that the go into thier own
- bigbro> little terrorists organzations, and take the other extreme.
- bigbro> Any extreme is evil.
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- Yes, this is the way I've always interpreted my family's motto:
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- Mediocria Firma (loosely translated as "Moderation in Everything")
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- at least, that's who I interpret it. Works pretty well too.
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- -lightnin
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