[Rhodes22-list] Religion

[Steven Alm]

Herb,

You said, "The moral of the story is,
don't offer something to someone pretending it's "free", if you're
expecting something in return."

I really don't think that's the moral at all.  It has little to do with
exchanging goods for money and more to do with ideology.  You knew this
question was coming:  If you handed me a bible and I looked you right in the
eye and threw it into the trash, how would you feel?


On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>wrote:

> Which isn't a bad thing, if you don't like flies.
>
> Actually, the comparison doesn't really hold. The moral of the story is,
> don't offer something to someone pretending it's "free", if you're
> expecting something in return. I've given my share of handouts for
> causes I believe in, fully realizing that many of them were going in the
> trash. I figured it was part of the price to pay. In other words, you
> win some, you lose some.
>
> I looked at the Hare Krishna's much the way I looked at junk mail
> senders before, and spammers today. I don't want what they're doing
> regulated, but I love finding a way to defeat them within the rules.
>
> Did you hear about the "spam king" (Alan Ralsky) who was faced
> retaliation by irate recipients? They submitted (as part of a campaign)
> his name to thousands of catalog companies, and basically buried his
> "real mail" under piles of junk mail. Poetic justice, to say the least.
>
> http://www.spam-site.com/spammer-alan-ralsky.shtml
>
> Robert Skinner wrote:
> > Sounds a little like tearing the wings off flies...
> >
> > /Robert
> >
> > Herb Parsons wrote:
> >
> >> Some folks may not believe this, but I was offended, and protested
> >> loudly, when Hare Krishna's were banned from DFW Airport. I suspected
> >> that you banned one fundraiser, you banned them all.
> >>
> >> Of course, I also had my own little "counter fundraiser" going on.
> >> They'd hand me their book. I'd ask if it was mine to keep (they couldn't
> >> sell it or demand a donation, that would require a tax certificate that
> >> they didn't want to get), so of course they would say yes. I'd walk away
> >> without giving anything, and throw the book away within sight of them.
> >>
> >> I know, I know, it's not much, but it made me feel better.
> >>
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