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Now this is something I have seen first hand, and I agree, it is pretty much bullshit, people making shit up to try and further there own petty causes.
something positive: archive
"The True Story Behind This Mostly True Comic
May 24, 2003
Before I begin, NO, I'm not bashing Christians. I'm ranting on people who don't back up their arguments.
In June of 2000, I found a typically over-the-top "why roleplaying games are evil" article which cited kids who played them murdering others and committing suicide. Now, let's be honest - if that shit happened in our media-driven society, wouldn't it be all over the news? But what made me particularly annoyed was the fact was no where in the bibliography were the sources of these "facts."
So I emailed the minister in charge of the site - and yes, my original email was REALLY testy. And while he didn't say the idea was "stupid," he did deny there was any such article on his site. (Yes, I did remove his email address - HOWEVER, it's not hard to find if you REALLY want to discuss this with him - the URL is left in the emails. However, if you do, please don't flame, attack or threaten him - be better than that. My original email is very aggressive and, if I knew then what I knew now, it would have been calmer. I was polite, but polite with an edge of wanting a reason to jump at the recipient, which is inappropriate and incidentally, I don't normally consider posting private emails as being polite so I generally don't, so this shouldn't end up as a frequest thing): "
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05242003.shtml
something positive: archive
"The True Story Behind This Mostly True Comic
May 24, 2003
Before I begin, NO, I'm not bashing Christians. I'm ranting on people who don't back up their arguments.
In June of 2000, I found a typically over-the-top "why roleplaying games are evil" article which cited kids who played them murdering others and committing suicide. Now, let's be honest - if that shit happened in our media-driven society, wouldn't it be all over the news? But what made me particularly annoyed was the fact was no where in the bibliography were the sources of these "facts."
So I emailed the minister in charge of the site - and yes, my original email was REALLY testy. And while he didn't say the idea was "stupid," he did deny there was any such article on his site. (Yes, I did remove his email address - HOWEVER, it's not hard to find if you REALLY want to discuss this with him - the URL is left in the emails. However, if you do, please don't flame, attack or threaten him - be better than that. My original email is very aggressive and, if I knew then what I knew now, it would have been calmer. I was polite, but polite with an edge of wanting a reason to jump at the recipient, which is inappropriate and incidentally, I don't normally consider posting private emails as being polite so I generally don't, so this shouldn't end up as a frequest thing): "
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05242003.shtml
posted by Unknown at Thursday, October 13, 2005
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