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In a message dated 2/1/01 7:32:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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I'm not even sure I can define capable citizen. <sort of a grin>



In my OPINION, I believe a capable person is one who can back up what they
know, and research and learn what they don't know.
Paula

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In a message dated 2/1/01 7:33:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


Does the list exist for people to be welcomed, or to exchange information
among homeschoolers?  


Sandra, I feel that both are necessary to a well-functioning list.

cath

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In a message dated 2/1/01 5:33:11 PM Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> THIS is personal.

I only say your name because it is you insisting that you can describe the
entire Christian religion and what it stands for in one post.
Yes, it's personal. I know you weren't naming anyone, but it's over
simplified
generalizations such as you made that make Christians look like strange
zealots. I named you only so you knew what post I referred to, since the
whole
group exploded about that time.
I had just said I am Christian, and you come up with a post saying "That's
what
Christians believe, I know!". So I felt it encompassed me. Not that you
meant
me or directed it at me, but I'm sure others know what I am saying even if
you don't.
I can't help but wonder if you are being deliberatly obtuse, acting as if you
don't realize which post I am referring to.

> Does the list exist for people to be welcomed, or to exchange information
> among homeschoolers?

You know, this is a humorous statement coming from you. I would say it's to
exchange information, of course.
Again.......I was not saying I was upset by not being welcomed. I said the
arguing
was so loud that no one heard any homeschooling discussion going on.
I've seen a couple of people now that want to say I am leaving because I was
not welcomed. That's not true, that fact is only one aspect of many reasons.

I THOUGHT it was about exchanging information among homeschoolers, but
was shown differently, as were many people who quietly agreed with me on
private emails. You now make the above statement to say it IS to exchange
info,
and yet you were one of the most vocal, saying inflamatory things about
religions
you don't truly show a respect for..

>
> The political problem involved jumping on a family about raising dogs. My
> pointing to the juxtaposition of that and the earlier pro-life arguments
> (also about politics) was jumped on as being personal, which is was not.

I wasn't thinking of EITHER of these posts. I'm talking about your
generalization
that all Christians think they HAVE to save you, that everyone is sinful, etc
etc.
You went so far in one sentence as to say "I'm serious, they really believe
that!""
When in fact, many many Christians do NOT.
Many of us hold ideas exactly opposite of what you state as FACT.
I cannot imagine that any Hindu's, Pagan's, Buddhist's or any other religion
represented here, would appreciate you over simplifying their beliefs and
adding to anti-whateverreligion beliefs...
I imagine that they, too, would mention that that is an oversimplisitic
generalization
that is not true of many people in their religions.

I didn't find your pro life posts personal at all. I understood you were
generalizing
about RADICAL pro lifers. It was your generalization on what YOU think the
Christian religion is all about. For myself and my family, your description
was
far from accurate.

If you had the right to state your opinon, I also had the right to state mine.
I'm sorry you didn't like it, and others didn't care for how you said your
opinon.
Such is life.

>
> Neither the presidential nor the dog overpopulation posts were mine.
>

Ok, but I wasn't referring to either of them. Others found other things
objectionable
I guess.

I joined several unschool groups at the same time as this one. This is the
only
one that is soooooo disrespectful about people beliefs. I cannot believe the
arguing
here, and am kind of getting upset with myself for responding and
participating.
Yet I felt I needed to say something.

Now you can justify it any way you want, say it got personal, say you never
said
what you did, and claim I left because I wasn't welcomed properly.
I'm done deciding whether or not I'll stay, when well over half the posts are
negative and nothing to do with unschooling, it's an easy choice. I'm off
to another less inflammatory group.
You can have the last word.

Laura