Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20000423011838.28143.00002636@ng-ft1.aol.com>,
Regnirps <regnirps@aol.com> wrote:
 
> pausch@saafNOSPAM.se  (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> Regnirps <regnirps@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>>> What you will find as well is the fairly new phenomena of what you might
>>> call anti-religion fundamentalists or religion haters. They are getting
>>> rather diminant in the media and entertainment fields.
>  
>> That too is a kind of religion really.  Religion is about believing
>> things wihtout solid evidence.  And since solid evidence is lacking,
>> both pro and anti religion, anyone with a strong opinion about
>> religion is really a religious person, in one way or another.
> 
> And the funny part is that these new atheists (I'm an old school atheist : )
> are becoming puritans and redefining everything from prnography to "hate
> speach".
 
Irrelevant -- puritanism and religion are not the same thing.  There are
religious non-puritans, so why shouldn't there be ahteist puritans?  Puritanism
is a lifestyle, not a religion.
 
>> Not excluding hard drugs, child pornography, classified information
>> and powerful weapons to terroriists?  :-)
> 
> I think the child porn comes mostly from Asia and the old Soviet block
> countries.
 
Yep -- but if people asked you for it, you wouldn't hesitate to deliver it?
 
>> Face it -- you can't protect your kids from that "foul language".
>> It's there, and they'll hear it and hear about it, no matter what you
>> think about it and no matter how much you try to censor it away.
> 
> I'm sure of that, but spending millions to put it on the screen seems to
> sanction it from a source higher in status than parents.
 
Well, it does exist in society as a whole -- not just in families.  BTW
one way to make these "forbidden words" less exiting could be overexposure.
My son doesn't swear any more now than before he saw the movie.  And I
still try to teach him to avoid sloppy language.
 
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