I am on a friends parents email list for all the Catholic - religious glurge that is floating around in cyberspace.
Much of it can be disputed on snopes and I email the link to them. The rest is just sappy. Not my cup of tea.
After a couple years of this ( a couple a month and they live in CA and I haven’t seen them in 12 years.) I came up with a pretty good idea (so i think myself.)
I just do a ‘reply all’ and just email everyone else back what I just got. Kinda carpet bomb them.
I feel so happy now about spreading the word about God to people who seem to care about this kinda cockamamie doo-doo.
Are there any Chluthulu ( or similar) glurge I can at the ready for trebecheting new millenium style back ?
In contusion: fuck, shit, goddamn, buttfucking motherfucking cocksucker from planet felch.
Why the fuck do you reply all? The other people on the list didn’t send anything to you. There are probably a couple of people who feel the same way you do, and now have to deal with getting multiple copies of the same damn spam.
I remember when I used to get a fair number of chain emails from people–the “Send 10 copies of this message or you will DIE!!!” types. I’d just reply to the person with the email 10 times; figured it saved my life and made theirs worse, two birds, one stone.
As one of those people who’s on religious glurge email lists from one of my friend’s parents (except they’re Baptist instead of Catholic) I’d say please don’t clutter my inbox any more than it already is.
I was getting religious glurge from someone that I had just met in my husband’s family and the positions that these harangues took were as opposed to my own as possible. She is a bright, well-educated, well-travelled woman. WTF?
I responded to the second one with a little more firmness than the first. It was then I found out that she wasn’t even reading them before zipping them on! “Santity of Marriage” ZIP! “God in Our Schools” ZIP!
Shirley, let’s write fake religious tracts and send them out in email. We have to make up a cause though. Stop the Robastians! End their senseless crusade against all that we hold sacred and dear!
You know, I have no idea what your position or opinion is on anything, but it’s the height of hubris to assume that you are automatically right about everything. As shocking as it might be to consider, “bright, well-educated, well-traveled” people can disagree with you honestly and sincerely, and sometimes they may even be more correct than you are. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I had the impression that you were an older poster (as in over 30), that kind of attitude is usually demonstrated by college age people who lack the wisdom, maturity and perspective that age brings. Perhaps you should rethink this one.
Get a good email program that permits you to sort incoming email into folders by addressee. The email that I get like this is automatically sorted to my “trash” folder. I never see it. I go forward, quite happily, in ignorance.
I may be overly kind here, but I took the “bright…” comment to mean that the offender was cosmopolitan enough to recognize that sending religous rants to a near-stranger was considered inappropriate. Particularly religous rants that YOU don’t even feel like reading.
The woman is the same age I am and should have known better than to spam a new acquaintance with anything that wasn’t of a personal nature. I didn’t even give her my email address. (My husband did.)
Weirddave, I make it a point to listen to and read opposing viewpoints, but I do like to choose my sources.
I do, however, admittedly have a lot of hubris (cultivated) and automatically assume that I am right about everything that I have an opinion on. Don’t you? Do you ever have an opinion that you assume is wrong? Did you change your mind immediately?
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