Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No need - Mark Ray did so earlier in the week.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I think http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/03/msg00269.html was disliked, because there was a sudden surge in posting frequency, which many people do when annoyed and that's a hard habit to break. Can all see why I think telling someone their opinion is wrong and irrelevant is an objection to the belief rather than the manner? If the manner was annoying, criticise the manner. In football terms: play the ball, not the player! > Andrew's a Discordian - to the extent that anything can be said about > their beliefs (it's not a terribly structured religion), I think it > seems reasonably accurate. "The Discordian death is a brain > re-dis-alignment: new shocks and struts!" hardly makes it sound like a > bad thing. If you generalise from the label despite the specific statements by the individual, you'll make all sorts of bad assumptions, even for far more structured religions. For example, all the christian writings about heaven hardly suggest that people should be very upset by death (for example, "...for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." in Gospel of John 5:28 on, verse numbering and exact wording may vary by edition) but most are very upset by death and view it as a sad thing, in my experience. I don't believe it's because all of them think that the deceased did evil and is off to hell. By the way, as a mechanic's son, I see needing new *struts* as a sign of probably either old age, defects or abuse and not something to be celebrated. YMMV. Hope that explains, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
