#16432
01/28/2001 6:15 PM
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Ah yes, I know the science museum of which the article speaks quite well. It's called Cosi (Center of Science and Industry, I think). It's mainly geared toward children, but everything is very interesting. I placed him 100 miles away from Columbus on the banks of Lake Erie because of what it says in his personal webpage: http://www.wordsmith.org/anu: "Greetings from the sunny-chilly shores of Lake Erie!" And Father Steve, if I didn't know better I'd say you were an atheist. Your opinions of Anu sound just like literary symbolism against religion.
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#16433
01/28/2001 8:53 PM
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And Father Steve, if I didn't know better I'd say you were an atheist. Your opinions of Anu sound just like literary symbolism against religion.
Who's to say he isn't?  FSteve lists his denomination as Episcopalian, and its sister-church in the UK, the Anglican Church has long been renowned for its atheist clergy. The British political satire Yes, Prime Minister included an episode where the PM had to appoint an Anglican Bishop, and received advice from his staff on the advantages of selecting one who was known not to believe in God. The Anglican religion is the dominant flavour here too, and I once read a newspaper column in which the reporter said, in an unkind generalisation perhaps, that "to be a good Anglican, one must believe nothing and tolerate everything." I personally have met many Anglicans who fit that description perfectly, including a few who are, at the least, devoutly agnostic. On the other hand it was an Anglican priest here who pointed me to a verse in Deuteronomy that alludes to God as Father and mother, so at least some still believe. 
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#16434
01/29/2001 2:07 AM
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FS may well know more about this than me because I got it second-hand, but the Anglican church (in England) not long ago fired a priest for not believing in God. This is, in my opinion and as a lifelong claimant to Anglican membership, grossly unsporting.  As Max says, the Church has never even demanded adherence to its own core beliefs and has been, obviously now in the past, famously tolerant of any hair-brained schism, reformation or devolution, and crackpot creed, belief system or lifestyle which comes along. This made it so different to any other Christian sect and most other religions in the world that it has always had my support. I like the idea of a religion which doesn't insist on total conformity to one particular -ism and its associated rituals. That leads to religious wars, mutual loathing between neighbours and inquisitions ending with little days out in the plaza for an auto-da-fe or its local fun-filled equivalent. I believe this is why FS puts up with us all!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#16435
01/29/2001 6:01 AM
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That leads to religious wars, mutual loathing between neighbours and inquisitions ending with little days out in the plaza for an auto-da-fe or its local fun-filled equivalent.
Even as a deeply religious person myself, I couldn't help smiling at a quote from David Ben Gurion I read for the first time the other day: "Going to war over religion is like fighting over who has the best imaginary friend."
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#16436
01/30/2001 8:46 AM
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"It is a lovely Saturday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, but the word ....... Anu Garg scrolls through a backlog of e-mail while I look over his shoulder."
That's the opening graph in the Smithsonian Magazine article (December 2000, page 67) by Rudolph Chelminski.
I thought that located him at AWADwork. Silly me.
wow
This proves nothing at all: "It is a lovely Saturday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, and the RhubarbCommando is wearily shoveling snow to make a path from his front door - in Lancaster, UK"
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#16437
01/30/2001 11:15 AM
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the RhubarbCommando is wearily shoveling snow
In a trench coat?
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#16438
01/30/2001 2:00 PM
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Smithsonian Magazine article (December 2000, page 67) by Rudolph Chelminski.This proves nothing at all said Rhubarb I say again "Would you deny print?"  Will no gallant Poster leap into the breach and 'splain it to the Commando ? wow
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#16439
01/30/2001 3:02 PM
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>Will no gallant Poster leap into the breach and 'splain it...
"Greetings from the sunny-chilly shores of Lake Erie!"
we have two quite different (i.e., contradicting) statements in evidence (albeit one is "in font", but from the sainted Anu's keyboard) -- which would you have us deny?
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#16440
01/30/2001 4:16 PM
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If I were Anu and reading all this, I might be feeling a bit uncomfortable, as though I caught a faint echo of baying bloodhounds on my trail.
I will say (arf) that I think the most likely thing is that Jazz. is right--he moved. Anu was at school in Cleveland when he started AWAD, so the greeting was accurate then,and if he has not changed his site's original greeting, so what?
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#16441
01/30/2001 8:55 PM
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enthusiast
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>If I were Anu and reading all this, I might be feeling a bit uncomfortable, as though I caught a faint echo of baying bloodhounds on my trail.
The image of Anu, furiously pedalling away on his unicycle, OED under one arm, laptop under the other, with baying bloodhounds in hot pursuit, is just too much for me.
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#16442
01/30/2001 9:28 PM
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speaking of meaningless milestones and fanfaronades, I noticed that the Q&A section now has more posts than the next two categories combined. of course, you have to discount a couple hundred sandwich posts.
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#16443
02/01/2001 12:29 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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In a trench coat?
Ah - you have me beaten in spades, Jackie!
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#16444
02/01/2001 2:51 PM
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you have me beaten in spades
Sam?
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#16445
02/01/2001 2:55 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Would you play that again?
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#16446
02/01/2001 9:12 PM
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speaking of meaningless milestones and fanfaronades, I noticed that the Q&A section now has more posts than the next two categories combined.
As far as I can remember, Q&A has always had more posts than the next two categories combined. AWAD in Schools doesn't have many posts.
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