Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: question about the best version of libreoffice - MY God is better!

Hi :)
I feel really bad now, that you seem to be forced into defending
yourself.  And Virgil needing to defend himself doubtless with others
on all sides feeling more and more pushed into defending their views
or beliefs.

A belief-system that defines all other's beliefs as being
"superstitions" sounds alarmingly intolerant to me.  Anyone who thinks
that everyone who disagrees with their own belief is "clueless" seems
to me to be scarily arrogant, to me.  But that is just my own personal
belief and i'd probably defend individuals who felt the need to
postulate alternatives, in a discussion (but preferably not on this
mailing list because, as we all seem to agree, this is probably not
the place for it).

As someone, who i believe was amazing, once said "An eye for an eye
and the whole world goes blind".

Regards from
Tom :)



On 26 January 2016 at 14:57, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote:
> Virgil,
>
>
> On 2016-01-27 01:19, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Chill, Phil.
> >
> > I can't believe the level of antagonism coming through your keyboard.
> > I'm "clueless" for not knowing Nasrin's gender? Harsh, man. While I
> > have many contacts with Muslims from around the world, I had never
> > heard the name Nasrin before and recalled nothing in her emails that
> > betrayed her gender.
> >
> > If choosing to love people, regardless of my knowledge of their
> > gender, is an agenda, then I suppose I have an agenda. I'm genuinely
> > surprised that my decision to love a Muslim I've never met upsets you
> > so much that you feel it necessary to accuse me of having "low general
> > knowledge" and being "clueless." Where does such a miserable world
> > view come from?
>
>
>
> Just observation - you believe in sky fairies and supporting others who are
> attacked for proselytising their sky fairies because an attack on one sky
> fairy is an attack on all sky fairies . .
>
>
> > I won't use the LO list to advance my views of Christianity.
>
>
>
> Good - and others should not use it to advance their superstitions either.
>
>
> > I use
> > other lists for that, where it is admittedly more appropriate. But, I
> > reserve the right to come to the defense of another who has been
> > unfairly attacked for what she happened to put in her signature line.
> > (I'll blindly accept your assertion that Nasrin is female.)  I felt
> > your attack unwarranted and unworthy of a gentlemen, regardless of
> > your religious views.
>
>
>
> Well if you weren't clueless (which is not consistent with you believing in
> fairy stories) you would have realised by now that I don't have any and that
> I don't approve of others proselytising on this list . .
>
> P.
>
>
>
> > Sorry, Tom, I had to respond to Phil, and I felt I had to do it on list.
> >
> > I'll let it go, now.
> >
> > Virgil
> >
> >
> > On 01/25/2016 11:37 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > > Virgil,
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2016-01-26 07:24, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > > > On 01/25/2016 01:40 PM, jomali wrote:
> > > > > Please note that the original message by Nasrin was on a topic germane
> > > > > to
> > > > > this list. One member with an excessively tender sore spot objected to
> > > > > something in Nasrin's signature that expressed his sincerely held
> > > > > faith.
> > > > > There was no intent on Nasrin's part to proselytize or to demean
> > > > > another's
> > > > > faith, as Phil's diatribe does.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I tend to agree about signature lines. They can contain all kinds of
> > > > things having nothing to do with LO. Sometimes they're funny;
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That would be fine . .
> > >
> > >
> > > > other
> > > > times they are informative about the writer. Phil's signature line
> > > > includes his address in Australia, which is informative, but has
> > > > nothing to do with LO. Nasrin's signature line includes a a few lines
> > > > about his Muslim faith,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Another person with low general knowledge . . again I am not surprised .
> > > .
> > >
> > >
> > > > also informative but also having nothing to do
> > > > with LO.
> > > >
> > > > I pretty much ignore signature lines, and I can't possibly imagine
> > > > being offended by one, regardless of what it might say.
> > > >
> > > > a Christian who loves Muslims
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > And there we have it - another person who has an agenda - they can't
> > > criticise someone else for proselytising their superstitious nonsense
> > > because they have their own superstitious nonsense . . a person who "loves"
> > > someone else but does not even know that the person they "love" is a "she"
> > > and not a "he" . . clueless . .
> > >
> > > P.
>
> --
> Philip Rhoades
>
> PO Box 896
> Cowra  NSW  2794
> Australia
> E-mail:  phil@pricom.com.au
>
> --
> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
> Problems?
> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
> deleted

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted