I have a couple of very specific hobbies I enjoy, and some time ago I joined several small, very-low-traffic Yahoo groups about one hobby, mostly so I could read the archives when I had the chance. So far, I’ve only received about two posts per month from these lists, nothing exciting but definitely on topic. Today I received a rare message from one of these lists, and I was so outraged that I posted a rather nasty public response and then unsubscribed.
Let me first make clear that on a GOOD day, I’ll say I’m agnostic. I have no complaint with what people wish to believe privately, but I can be pretty hostile with members of ANY religion who try to dictate my behavior (or anyone else’s, for that matter) based on their “correct” interpretation of whatever they claim as a Holy Book.
I decided to share this with my fellow Dopers as a prime example of what I find intolerable about religions in general and their mostly narrow-minded, hypocritical, self-righteous followers. Oh yeah, of course there was a list of about 100 cc:ed addresses - got to spread that story far and wide!
(P.S.: I hope the response attributed to ABC is true!)
And this is my response, which I’m afraid was the best I could do after being up all night:
This has actually been circulating since 1999? :eek: How pathetic is that?
And isn’t it just soooo Christ-like to keep circulating this incomplete and misleading version in order to slam ABC, despite the efforts they made rectify the matter?
What a fine example of Christian moral behavior - I can hardly wait to rush out and convert! Then I, too, can know the joy of spamming the world with lies in the name of Jee-zus!
:rolleyes:
[sub]Although I’m a little embarrassed that this has been around for 4 years and I just learned about it. :([/sub]
Oh, and great job, Dopers, of being on top of that - the response was so quick my computer is still trembling from the shock!
Please continue, I’m fascinated by this evolving love story - there’s a movie in here someplace, if I can figure out how to work in the obsession with abscessed gastropods for dinner.
coosa, report the post to the yahoo group moderator, and ask him or her to remove it from the list for being off-topic. If the moderator won’t do it, THEN quit the group. Of course it won’t take back the messages sent to members’ mailboxes, but it’ll take it out of the archives.
Welcome to the world of the Inboxer Rebellion. E-mails like this have no expiration date, and can circulate (theoretically) for decades.
This story has been floating around since 1996, and actually goes back to 1975. It shows little sign of slowing down, even though the subject has been missing for a long time and turned up dead a couple of years ago.
For days now I’ll have mental images of the exciting discovery of giant slugs, or snails. Worse, I’ll be tormented by thoughts of a researcher anouncing he’s trained an architeuthis[sub]sp?[/sub] like a Sea World dolphin.
Well, I’m certainly not going to repost the Snopes link again.
In a similar vein, my best friend has this horrible habit of forwarding me all sorts of glurge shit and other nonsense. I usually just delete it.
I finally got fed up with the last one, and sent her the appropriate Snopes link. She promised to pass it on to whoever forwarded that shit to her.
It was the “Bill Gates will give you money by tracing your email through Outlook and Outlook Express if you use Windows!” idiocy. Except I use Eudora. Am I cut out of the promised riches?
What made it really sad was that the text of the “message” hadn’t been changed. Right down to that attorney’s name of Pearlas Sanborn and something about General Electric and Pepsico.
