### Apollo BBS Archive - March 20, 1990

    Message: 64005
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Jeff
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 01:24:15

    Re:  "*I* am not the one who says that anyone who doesn't
    accept Jesus as Christ will go to hell;"

    I didn't say it either.  The Bible says it.  I was just quoting it.

    Message: 64006
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 01:36:44

    I haven't really read much on evolution since collage.  Maybe a few
    magazine articles here and there.  I'm not really too interested in it.  I
    believe the Bible account of creation, and since, Darwin's *theory* is just
    that, it just doesn't interest me.  That's it in a nut shell.  What else can
    I say.

    Message: 64007
    Author: $ Bob Thornburg
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 01:40:25

    Re:  "I still believe that punishment is necessary."

    I still agree with you on that part.

    Message: 64008
    Author: $ Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: 63986
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:02:44

    Why should debates be confined to a SIG?  The whole purpose of debate is
    that it is a public process, where anyone with a view and the inclination to
    post it can do so.  Our debates would be much poorer without the input of
    non-status users (not to disparage the status users, obviously).

    Message: 64009
    Author: $ Jeff Beck
    Category: Joke
    Subject: I Ching
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:06:26

    Proposed interpretation of hexagram #65:

    Turtles make better soup than they do oracles.

    Message: 64010
    Author: $ Jeff Beck
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Bob T.
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:09:04

    Yes, you are "just quoting it," but you are the one who has decided to quote
    it as truth.

    Message: 64011
    Author: $ Jeff Beck
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Prodigy
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:21:54

    Talk about censorship.  A friend of mine recently joined.  For those of you
    who don't know, Prodigy is a national service along the lines of a
    Compuserve, Genie, etc., except that it charges a $10.00 a month flat rate
    -- no time limit or hourly rate.  It recently established a local exchange.
    Well, first of all, from what I can see, it has no data bases to speak of.
    It has no "CB" or live, simultaneous conversation capabilities.  You have to
    use a proprietary communications program, because it sends funky secret
    codes back and forth with the remote system.  There are graphic displays on
    screen, but text is 40 column size (notice that I didn't say you had forty
    columns to enter text: with borders, you have less.)  On every screen, a
    prominent ad takes up space at the bottom.  It is probably 1/6 the size of
    the whole screen.  Message entry is rigorously controlled and organized into
    neat little limiting categories, and as far as I can see, there is no
    general discussion board.  I read some 20-30 messages on two different
    "clubs" (read message boards), and 75 percent of them involved users
    complaining about the appalling arrogance and tyranical power of superusers
    called "critics" (who apparently have total control over message content)
    who routinely censor messages which contain anything they don't particularly
    like, or which could possibly offend ANYONE.
    There were even messages regarding censoring of email.

    Message: 64012
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Let The Games Begin!
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:31:36

    Cliffy, in your message # 63981 you basically state that you don't care if
    I use YOUR name in my messages.

    I find this interesting as hell especially since you have always used my
    name.  Somehow I don't get it......please explain.  Are you saying that it
    is okay for Cliff to refute Rod but Rod can't debunk Cliff?  I guess Animal
    Farm has gone to your ole head if that is the case.  Which rule was that?

    It appears that you still do not understand.  You obviously find the
    atheist belief more or less a false ideology.  Does that somehow make
    Christianity true other than in your own mind?  Does that mean that because
    you are sure of your belief I can't answer you?

    If you wish for me never to use your name in any of my discussions then
    don't debate on the board.  By doing so you are giving everyone a license
    to respond unless of course this board is not democratic.

    But that is in essence what you are saying, that it is fair for you to post
    my name but I not your name.  You wouldn't happen to be German would you?

    Enough of that.  I hope you can figure out what I am saying.

    In my everyday wanderings through life I find that non-religious people are
    more tolerable, more intelligent, more fun, and do not condemn others
    as readily as those who are indoctrinated into a good-guy, bad-guy,
    worship, believe or be forever punished belief system.

    Look at Savage for instance.  This man has the hardest of hearts.  I have
    not heard him say anything positive about other users.  If he were in a
    position of power Adolph would be likened to Bambi (r).

    As for my entry in the Apollo Story Kontest, let me say this about that.
    You were chosen as an astronaut who commanded a space shuttle.  While you
    and the other crew members were in space a world war broke out and all
    civilization on the planet below was totally destroyed.  The shuttle crash-
    landed back on the planet after the radiation levels had gone down but only
    you and one other, a female, survived.  While the planet's surface was
    regenerating itself into a living habitat you and the female were falling in
    love and had decided to have a baby so that the human animal would
    repopulate itself.  There were already rabbits and some other animal species
    who survived and they were multiplying nicely.

    While you and your loved one were enjoying a nice sleep in your little cave
    an earth tremor caused the rocks to totally crush the two of you.  Thus all
    human life came to an end on the planet, forevermore.

    Now, I ask, what IS your objection?  You could have died on impact during
    the rough landing or I could have omitted you from the crew list and you
    would have died during the major war?  I gave you a place of honor as the
    commander of the ship.  What more could you ask for?  What is your
    objection?  Oh.....I see....I understand now....the female crew member who
    survived was a black lady, third cousin of Martin Luther King (although I
    did not mention that relationship)  But hey, you loved her..so what?

    Finally....I am just as curious as Zak concerning what I said women were
    good for?  I sometimes forget, am absent minded on occasion so please
    refresh my memory.  By the way, I do think they are great for sex.  I
    wouldn't have it any other way.  I'm just not quite ready to turn gay
    although there are some good looking men, in thier little shorts, out
    there.
                                            Me

    Message: 64015
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Zak/ answer
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:40:21

    I have given your last message to me an awful lot of thought.  I have done
    hours of research via university databases on the subject.

    Let me just say that, in total, you are full of crap.  You don't know what
    you are talking about.  Punish indeed!

    Just read the bible for all the correct answers.  They're in it just for the
    looking.

    By the way, is there some serious mental disorder running in your immediate
    family?

    Finally, I'll get on your message real soon, with relish on.  -Rod

    DOG, God, & "Bob" Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 1117
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: T & A
    Subject: ROD!!
    Date: 03/20/90  Time: 11:21:34

    Hey!  Welcome back, dude!

    Message: 1118
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 03/20/90  Time: 15:01:36

    Hey, man, like, are you here to stay?  Finally find the Slack?

    Message: 1119
    Author: $ Zak Woodruff
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Beck
    Date: 03/20/90  Time: 15:23:50

         I don't like Dee Snyder.  That was a joke made by Ann.  Ann's full of
    'em.

    Message: 1120
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Dog Shit!!!
    Subject: Arf! Arf!
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:48:41

    Actually, it is good to be back.  I was just waiting for the right entrance.

    Now I will, no doubt, get further behind in my list of 'things to do today'.

    "Oh well", as one famous Apollo user once said.

    Quote of the Month Department:

           "Women are good for one thing only - to screw & screw & screw."

                                            (and screw)

                                            Rod Williams

    P.S.  Do you know why men do not marry sheep?  Because, stupid, sheep can't
    cook.

    Nor can they do the dishes, the laundry, or vacuum.  I wouldn't marry a
    sheep but as an extra lover.....well, perhaps, depends on whether it was
    good looking or not, you know.

    Besides, the babies that female sheep produce from the male human leaves a
    bit to be desired.  Although the good part is that they only need to be feed
    Purina Pet Chow.

    Message: 1121
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: last(s)
    Date: 03/21/90  Time: 02:57:50

    It's good seeing you guys.  There goes the neighborhood.  And I think that
    Dean Hathaway is full of shit when he says that my 'Mind-Sucker' is not a
    damn good (make that great) idea.  Every household should have one.

                    RONCO, Alpha-Beta Mind Sucker (for when the kids are bad.)

                    Just plug Junior in when he is bad and he'll never
                    remember how to be bad.  Comes with complete book
                    explaining how to de-glitch and re-format.

                    110 Volts D.C., 12 volts portable or the industrial
                    440 Unit for those difficult cases.

                    Caution:  Do not attempt to use this on yourself.  You
                    will not remember how to turn it off.

    SOON TO BE DEVELOPED - The Ronco Punishment Kit.  Yes, finally a do-it-
    yourself kit for the entire family.  No need to involve the Law.  When
    a member of the family commits a crime just hook them up and watch their
    faces turn blood red in complete agony all in the comfort of your home.

    They'll never want to commit another crime ever again.  However, if you
    notice that a certain glow is gone from their eyes then you'll need the
    Ronco, Restore-a-Zombie Kit.

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