From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 20 18:21:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAF537B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B581B43F75 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:21:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h1L2LQJ4012254 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([68.39.203.40]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HAMZVP00.BFW; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:21:25 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:21:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Open source (was RE: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: Paul Robinson , chat@FreeBSD.ORG To: Terry Lambert From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: <3E54FEB1.377B0103@mindspring.com> Message-Id: <23316EDF-4543-11D7-9FFE-000393A335A2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 11:13 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: > Paul Robinson wrote: >>> Teenagers are brillinat examples of group conformance: "I want to >>> be different, just like everyone else!". 8-). What group you join >>> is dictated primarily by who tolerates your presence best. >> >> What group you join is dictated by who *you* tolerate the presence of >> best. >> What group you *remain in* is dictated secondarily by who tolerates >> your >> presence best, but primarily who you think you can tolerate the best >> on a >> long term basis. >> >> Sometimes people end up warping your values to fit in to remain in >> the group >> (nobody who starts to hang around with crack heads think they will >> become >> one themselves, unfortunately living in Manchester, UK, I can attest >> they >> are nearly always wrong), but ultimately you will stay in those >> groups who >> you prefer to hang around with. Put it this way, how many people do >> you know >> who were thrown out of the Boy Scouts for being too old but who >> wanted to >> stay in the Boy Scouts? How many left because they didn't want to do >> that >> stuff any more? Same thing. > > I was personally thrown out of Boy Scouts for being Catholic instead > of Mormon; does that count? > heh, i was thrown out of cub scouts because i mouthed off to the scoutmaster. I never heard of them throwing someone out because of being catholic though. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message