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Gravity is a Hoax

Actually, I was a Geek Protestant, but most of the other kids were Roman Catholic. Some kids were afraid to stand near me, because the nuns told them that one day the Devil would suck me down to Hell and they might get slurped up too.

The Catholic kids would cross the street rather than walk on the sidewalk in front of a Protestant church. I could make them cry by threatening to drag them onto the stairs of our church. The Catholic kids were, in my opinion, the worst behaved and most immoral. Every week, they could confess and be forgiven! The Catholic girls' schools had, umm, reputations too.

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But it does; it drags behavior, reluctantly, towards a stable centroid.

One thing that I first noticed about California is that strangers would talk. Like, start discussing vegetables in Safeway. I think that's cool.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
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jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com 
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John Larkin

Ran onto that problem in Boston. A co-worker with my wife was Catholic. She and her husband were contemplating buying a house, but she feared she'd get pregnant and they would no longer have two incomes.

My wife gave her a little fireside chat...

A few days later she told my wife that they could no longer associate with us :-(

Nice couple, he was chess champion of the 7th fleet, which he 'fessed up to after repeatedly trouncing me ;-)

Yup. There was a girl with the name 'Faith' no less. The standing line was, "Keep the baby, Faith". ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

California is less social-caste oriented, while New England is more so. Bowlers are for management. The working class may wear derbies or homburgs. You don't share lunch rooms. Gripes go up, not down.

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bitrex

It's very flat. Completely horizontal, until it turns vertical. Both halves - flat.

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krw

Apologies :)

Guilt + redemption-through-my-organisation is a powerful method of control and stifling thought. Many (most?) religions practice it in one form or another.

I've seen Catholicism instill guilt in some ~8yo cousins. In that case it was about being rude to their host by having to refuse breakfast on Friday because it contained bacon. Actually, the host (my mother) wasn't offended - except by the religion making young kids feel guilty.

Yeah. The received "wisdom" is that they become either saints or sinners. Both are useful to the church, in different ways!

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Tom Gardner

The inferior form that Newton invented - rather earlier - works just as well.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

Huh, Well I'm ~300 miles from the coast, but that must be far enough west. That's exactly how I treat people. I just start talking to them. If I see them often, or if we hit it off then maybe we'll get around to exchanging names. (I'll forget the name in no time...)

If I had to wait for a formal introduction, I'd never get to know anyone.

George H.

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George Herold

Is that the same as Geek Orthodox?

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krw

No, those are the ones that work at "blest buy".

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Bill Martin

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