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Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: hart...@erols.com (Rebecca Hartong)
Date: 1998/12/16
Subject: Re: letter to AOL, for TOS violation over Xenuu
In article <19981216172028.24204.00000...@ng-fi1.aol.com>, ms...@aol.com
says... > >The grounds on which the TOS violation ought to have been given is that Ha! I love that kind of reasoning. If I call you an asshole and you > >you were posting to a Scientology fellowship board using a screen name > >which is offensive to Scientologists *by design.* > If that offends them, that is their fault for being protest, my response is going to be that it's all your fault for being so damned easily offended. ;-) See? I can do anything I want! If anyone protests-- it's *their* fault! > Besides, if you ask So they're not entitled to be offended, huh? Whether they understand > a scieno, they usually disavow Xenu, saying > it is some lie made up by critics. that Xenu is an actual part of Hubbard's cosmology or not, most of them still realize that the only reason it's ever brought up in public is to embarrass and humiliate Scientologists. > The intent of Xenuu was satire. What, pray tell, is the purpose of satirizing someone's "applied religious philosophy" on their fellowship board-- if not to offend? Regardless of your intent (and I sincerely doubt that you didn't know the Xenuu name would offend Scientologists), the fact that your "satire" *did* offend ought to show you that it wasn't appropriate for that forum. > Not to offend, but if they are so easy to Uh huh. That's the sort of thing one often hears from the little bullies > offend, sounds like they have a problem, not me on the playground, too. -- Rebecca Hartong You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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