Posted by so on July 16, 2005, at 20:04:19
In reply to Re: Please don't call me creepy » so, posted by SLS on July 16, 2005, at 15:46:51
> > > BTW, if it means anything to you, I went out of my way to capitalize the word "Scientology" in my posts.
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> > >- Scott
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> > That is courteous of you, but this is a message board, not the New York Times. I expect people here to be casual and imprecise in their writing styles.
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> I don't take casually the feelings of others. Nor do I take casually the dignity of individuals or groups of individuals. Whenever my education allows, I try to demonstrate a respect of people as being no less human than I am. Simply hitting the "Shift" key is the least that I could do. That you don't appreciate it means nothing to me. I will continue to do it anyway.
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> I will always try to respect you as a fellow human being, but I may never come to respect you as a source of knowledge and understanding. My guess is that this means nothing to you. It shouldn't.I take pains to assure that no one vests authority in me, so I would expect that you have no means to recognize what I might contribute to your knowledge and understanding. You would never know me as "so" even if I were sitting across the table working with you toward some mutually important goal.
With regard to punctuation, I'm more impressed by a person's ability to hit a combination of keys that reflect a capacity to understand specific merits of a particular faith system and perhaps to adjudge the relative fallacy of one system in the context of other flawed systems than I am interested in a person's attention to capitalizing a particular word.
> (It really should, though. I know everything).
At least everything you need to know to be who you are.
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