From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 09:51:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42FE1065672 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:51:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo103.cox.net (eastrmfepo103.cox.net [68.230.241.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFFA8FC18 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo110.cox.net ([68.230.241.223]) by eastrmfepo103.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20120105095117.CZX28068.eastrmfepo103.cox.net@eastrmimpo110.cox.net>; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 04:51:17 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.86.55]) by eastrmimpo110.cox.net with bizsmtp id HlrG1i0091BeFqy02lrHKp; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:51:17 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020207.4F057295.002C,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=UJAwRnj6VfZxP3vT7W4vAg8D8vrJMSfrMxq2TR8CUCY= c=1 sm=1 a=8NHSYkrjdEUA:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=fdHYxQQoAueMHNSmXppgDg==:17 a=Hi_lnM7XAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=yC4Z5yzjN3xr9FzzDmIA:9 a=hiImL9IPiVxOxdR1E94A:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=PTprVwFw32EA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=fdHYxQQoAueMHNSmXppgDg==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q059pGhj000222; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 03:51:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 03:51:10 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Jamie Message-ID: <20120105035110.3f86792a@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20111130133656.GH42014@mule.podro.com> References: <201111300158.SAA09037@lariat.net> <20111130133656.GH42014@mule.podro.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:51:23 -0000 On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:36:56 -0500 Jamie wrote: [snip] > As a former fundie myself (brief stint, I assure you!), I do have > some sympathy for your hotel guests. Decades ago, in my teens, before > I was fortunate enough to snap out of it, such a situation would have > produced an *extreme* amount of anxiety. > > I can only feel sorry for anyone who has lived their whole life that > way. > > There aren't many ways to help them, everything you say or do is > processed via an elaborate shell script that basically amounts to > this: > > sed -e 's/outside help/trick of the devel/' > > Poor people, really. If they weren't so dangerous & annoying, we > ought to have sympathy for them. It really was a high-stress > lifesytle. I'm thankful to have snapped out of it early on, lots of > others aren't so lucky. It really is like a trap. Glad to hear you were eventually "saved". :-) I recently caught a segment of "Inside The Actors' Studio" with several members of the cast of "Family Guy". Seth MacFarlane's response to one of the standard closing questions posed by James Lipton was priceless: Lipton: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? MacFarlane: I'm really sorry about all my followers. Ya just gotta love ol' Seth. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net