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Please, I'm protestant, and one of my best friends is Hindu, another good friend is Catholic, yet another good friend is Buddhist... am I religiously intolerant?
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Oh, and LK, my parents might be getting a divorce soon... and I promised myself I'd never end up like they did. Am I wrong for thinking I'll end up happily married for life? Average life span: 80. Me:17. That gives me... 63 years, approximately, to court and find someone who WON'T treat me like a "pet dog." Do you think I stand a chance?
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She wasn't putting stars around you living in California, she was emphasising that she lives in California.
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Im sorry but I couldnt ignore it, but somebody needs some spelling lessons. Does anyone else know what Im talking (typeing)about? Every post I see from this person has some horrible spelling in it!
I am not trying to be rude. I normally could care less, but these dont seem to be little typos.
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I can't trace my ancestors further than 5 generations. I know generally where I come from(Ireland, Germany mostly), and I have a very, very strong Catholic background.... but I am actually highly opposed to some Catholic practices. That doesn't mean that I can't like people or have friends in different countries and religions. Maybe YOU'RE the religiously intolerant one?
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And I didnt swear at her. I swore at the idea of me incourageing young marriages. And hey, its not like i didnt cencor my self. Didnt write the acual words did I?
quote:Originally posted by LordKaosnix: like i give a damn about what gets you off.
Tell me again that you didn't write the actual words? Or do you not consider "damn" a swear word?
Surrounding a term or phrase with astriks on the internet commonly denotes that it is a self-referential action. Hence if I typed " *hug* " it would mean that I was giving you a hug. kq grew up in California and lives there now.
This is one of the reasons it's a good idea to "lurk," or hang around a forum for awhile without posting. It helps you to understand how the community interacts, and learn the shorthand.
We recently had someone just start posting after lurking for four years. Why don't you follow his example?
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Church burning protestants? They burned churches? Funny, I thought they just nailed letters of protest to doors, unless they were seriously screwed up in the head...
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quote:When you put stars around my liveing in CA, that made me see that you do not approve of California perhaps becouse of personal reasons or just the common stereo types out since the 50's.
When I put "stars" (asterisks) around something, it's denoting that I'm not using a complete sentence, but am "acting" or "being" what is being described.
It's a fairly common practice on Internet fora.
quote:Neh, if i were intoxicated id be lovey to everyone and my spelling would be much much worse then it is now.
Perhaps you need ieSpell if you have that much of a problem with spelling. We consider it courteous here to make sure our posts are as readable as possible for others.
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And we look at the Crusades, and wonder why Muslims tend to hate Christians.
Luther was the first Protestant. He set the example of peaceful protest. It's not right to say that all protestants of olden times were "church burners." If they were, the Catholic church would have ceased to exist by now.
Love your neighbor?
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I'm sorry, did you think I had a problem with those terms? I don't. I have a hard time reading some of the rest of the stuff you have posted, though, and was offering a helpful tool to facilitate better communication.
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We're not talking about slang. We're talking about spelling errors such as "fealing" for "feeling," "im" for "I'm," and "biest" for "biased." Along with mydrid others in your every post.
This is not a kiddie board. We value spelling and punctuation. Everyone makes mistakes, but your's are atrocious.
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See, you're doing better already. See what paying a little attention can do? Now go download that spellcheck program kq linked to and you will be down-right legible!
quote:Originally posted by Brettly10: ugghhh Does anyone else feel like they are missing something when LK posts. Its like there are parts of a different conversation that only he is partaking in. BC is that you?
Good call. The spelling and punctuation mistakes are a bit forced in his posts. LK's writing looks a lot like it was written by someone deliberately trying to distinguish himself from his true identity on Hatrack. Could be BC, could be Fallow. Meh.
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(I don't think so, for the record. I think he's just used to gamer boards or other places that don't care and where you score points by being rude, so he doesn't know how to play nice yet. He might get there. Worth a shot.)
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LK, since you seem to have a problem with spelling, and you were implying that it only gets worse, I was trying to help you out.
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"then it is now"- that would be a grammar mistake, one of which I believe KQ was talking about.
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quote:"then it is now"- that would be a grammar mistake, one of which I believe KQ was talking about.
Actually, that's a spelling mistake more than grammar. But I was not implying that anything specifically in what I quoted was grossly misspelled-- just that other things in previous posts were.
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Not fallow. I think my fallowdar is very nearly perfect, and this ain't it.
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Last I heard, anyway, fallow was back and posting under a new name, and a bit more coherent and less insulting than before.
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kq, ok, I guess maybe ONE person manged not to misspell their spelling critique. Although you do have a misplaced comma in another post on the same page . . . Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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One of the disadvantages of living on the other side of the world from the rest of you . . . I miss all the good stuff. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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quote: The irony is, I think everyone who posted about LK's spelling errors had at least one of their own in the post where they commented.
This is what I call "Davidson's Law," in the hopes that it will make me famous across the Net:
"Every post which is made for the express purpose of criticizing the flawed grammar and/or punctuation of a previous poster will itself contain at least one error of a similar type."
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Wow, I am pretty new to Hatrack and I did not realize there was a way to delete replies already posted. Amazing!
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"1. He only started dating me because he wanted to be friends, and he didn't know any other way to approach it(I asked him out first). 2. He believes that kissing should be reserved for marriage- ANY kind of kiss. He believes that in reserving it for so long, it's mroe special in the end. Now, I agree with him on this(more on that later)- but we've already kissed. 3. He says he loves me- and I know I love him- but he doesn't know "what kind of love" it is. He says that since we've agreed not to kiss anymore(going along with his beliefs), that we're nothing more than friends with a title, that there is no difference. "
Ok, I have to say this and only because I have experience in this area with a good friend. He says that he doesnt know what type of love he has for you and I would assume that he has the same faith as you. I assume this because both of you seem very dedicated to that faith and would find it difficult to be with someone who does NOT share this faith. He has also kissed you before and now says that he wants to wait. Unfortunately, I agree with those who say he is not interested in you. Yet, I feel like I must say that it is not because of you. It is because he is gay and either has not fully realized it yet, or has and is denying it. My friend came to the same conclusion when he realized that kissing girls did not appeal to him. I could of course be wrong, but my experience has told me that this could be the case.
Im really sorry about that too. I know what it is like to love someone and not be able to be with that person. I also applaud you for sticking to your faith and allowing that faith to guide you.
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Humean- trust me, I've said it before, he's not gay. He is VERY turned on by females, if I must tell you all that. We've talked about it, and he expects people to ask him that. If the fact that he wants to wait until he has a steady job and a degree makes him gay, then there are a lot of gay men in the world who "haven't fully realized it yet." I have also, after talking to him, reached this same conclusion, but I am in NO way lesbian. I'd appreciate it if everyone on this thread stopped questioning his sexuality.
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Yeah, I have to defend Tinros here. She's objected to this argument frequently, and strenuously, and I believe she has plenty of evidence that he's not gay.
Also, as a guy who placed his morals above his hormones (in high school, anyway), you don't have to be gay to have self-control.
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Yep, I also don't see why a man should automatically be labelled as gay just because he has morals and/or self-control. That's just silly.
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Yep. I was similarly labelled, although, being female, it was lesbian, at this one job I had simply because I wasn't willing to sleep with anyone. Whatever keeps their egos intact, I guess.
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That's totally it; they have to "prove" to their friends there's nothing "wrong" with them by labelling the other person.
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Myself, I'd rather chose to respect those who have morals and self-control. It's so much easier in the long run.
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I'd just like to point out that it wasn't so much the "no kissing" that made me question his sexuality, but the wish-washiness about what sort of "love" he felt towards her. The combination of both made me wonder.
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as he has told me... he wasn't sure if it was romantic love(whioch it sometimes was, and sometimes still is) or the kind of love you feel for a friend(which it is most of the time). Another point- I'm the only girlfriend he's ever had. He's kind of new to this whole thing.
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Well, I was sharing my experience that told me he might be. I wasnt questioning his sexuality because he didnt want to kiss you or something like that, Ive just seen this type of thing before. If im wrong then thats cool.
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