Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:21:08 -0500 From: Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open source (was RE: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!) Message-ID: <23316EDF-4543-11D7-9FFE-000393A335A2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3E54FEB1.377B0103@mindspring.com>
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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
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