RE: 9/9/99

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is probably not a real midrange thread, but it seems like the
controversy in China a few centuries back between the Confucians and the
Legalists.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: End of the Trail [mailto:endofthetrail@skyenet.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 6:22 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: 9/9/99
> 
> 
> Sir:
> 
> I enjoy reading this forum.  A vast base of knowledge and 
> opinions, experts
> to not, simple to thought provoking questions, answers, and 
> problems.   Much
> is tongue in check, based on an underlaying truth.
> 
> With that said, I thank you for your thoughts, but disagree.  
> I feel that
> the world is full of devils, we are raising them.  Children 
> are not being
> raised with any accountablities.  Not black or white, 
> everything is gray.
> The 70's idea "if it feels good do it" is coming back to 
> haunt them.  The
> neXt generation has taken them at their word and expanded on it.
> 
> I do attend to agree about the "fellow that lives on lake 
> washington and
> gives a few bucks to the Gates Foundation".  I go on to think 
> that too many
> people worship the Gates Foundation and his Frankenstein 
> (Gates, myself, is
> one).  Please do not misunderstand me, I also make, or try to 
> make, a living
> with this TOOL{machine}, but I do not think it will save the 
> world.  It can
> help or hurt it, this whole Y2K, tho great for the work, is 
> inhanced by this
> frankenstein (I know, they also had scares back on the turn of the 19
> century).
> 
> I don't feel that I am a religious nut, BUT I do BELIEVE and 
> think we need
> to spend more time with both the elderly(to learn, remember, 
> and reflect)
> and the young(to pass on our knowledge, morals, and 
> experinces).  I will
> step away from the podium, did not mean to preach.  This is 
> not the time or
> place.
> 
> Again, I am thankful for many things and this forum is one of thing.
> 
> Eurrat
> endofthetrail@skyenet.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Montague <slew@accessone.com>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: 9/9/99
> 
> 
> >At 08:26 PM 9/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>It is the 6/6/66 that scares me.
> >>
> >
> >geez--ur tempting the religious right---there is no 
> devil--'cept for a
> >fellow that lives on lake
> >washington and gives a few bucks to the Gates Foundation
> >Bob Montague
> >slew@accessone.com
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