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To: The Philosopher who wrote (39802)	6/8/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

You have a point, Christopher. Actually, I was just going to post AA, and thank him/her for the opportunity he/she gave us to have a little fun, at his/her expense. He/she has taken it well, for the most part. My problem is that I think AA is an invented persona, adopted by someone very well known to many participants on this thread (although not to me personally). I suspect an attempted put-on, in other words. If I am wrong, I will apologize. Joan

To: The Philosopher who wrote (39802)	6/8/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

You are of course right. For quite a while I simply ignored her. But it got difficult; she just kept coming back, again and again, and eventually the temptation was too much to resist. At a certain point you either leave or snap back at her. I walked away a few times, and then got irritated: who is this smug little know-it-all to drive me away from a place I enjoy by pouring it full of her incessant oleaginous meanderings? It is easier to say to her "don't go away mad, just go away", but she doesn't go away. If somebody walked up to you in public and started haranguing you, you would of course ask them politely to stop. If they didn't, your next request would doubtless be a little less polite. Sooner or later, if the message didn't get through, you would turn aggressive. That is the way of it. If she persists, she will probably get worse than she's had, though probably not from me. I've wasted enough pixels on her already. If a strong commitment to religion is genetic in part or whole (and if sexual orientation, and penchant for violence, and happiness quotient, and similar behavioral attributes are considered partly genetic, then I would suspect that religious excess may well also be) it is like attacking somebody because they are gay. Absolutely not. We don't attack her because she is religious. If she's religious and happy about it, fine, I'm as delighted for her as I am for those who are gay and happy about it. But if somebody follows me around telling me that I should be religious, or gay, and that there is something wrong with me because I'm not, sooner or later I'm going to make a nasty comment.