Hello Roman,

Speaking as someone who was once published in the Charlatan (I assume its still there), the idea of a petition to reduce the # of fwords is pointless.

1) Like it or not, part of the idea of doing that is to give these publications the appearance that they are not constrained by rules of the adult world (i.e. the post university world).

2) Having someone start a petition telling them to stop makes them feel better because it shows how on the "edge" they are because they are upsetting people. In effect the more you get upset, the more likely they are to use the Fword.

At the end of the day university publications will always pretend to be a little more rebellious than mainstream papers. That's the whole friggin idea, so get over it

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Originally posted by romich Hi Guys! For those of you, who want to learn more about Orthodox Christianity, how it's different from Catholic christianity, it's opinion on important things in life (ranging from sex to love and computers) you are welcome to visit www.askaboutcanada.info The site has a forum where you can discuss whatever comes to mind. Have a good day Roman

Is your God any less irritating than :TranceVanDyk:'s God?

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Originally posted by George Smiley Is your God any less irritating than :TranceVanDyk:'s God?

is your god not a cookie monster?

orthodox christianity. are you referencing protestantism? not many are interested in the subject here. forget debating about orthodoxy and unorthodoxy, argue theism vs. non-theism. im tired of argueing alone all the time.

you guys are fun though.

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I would have thought he was refering to Greek Orthodox?

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Originally posted by George Smiley Is your God any less irritating than :TranceVanDyk:'s God?

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Originally posted by Subey the idea of a petition to reduce the # of F words...

im guessing thats a no

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Originally posted by George Smiley I would have thought he was refering to Greek Orthodox?

Russian Orthodox Church according to his site.

Anyway Roman, hope you are here to stay for more than one post! Unfortunetly we haven't had enough religious people in here lately...

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Originally posted by St_Andrew Russian Orthodox Church according to his site.

Isn't that the same thing?

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Originally posted by George Smiley Isn't that the same thing?

No of course there is a huge difference (probably had wars over it), and apperntly you can have long arguments over it:

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: forget debating about orthodoxy and unorthodoxy

Seriously what could be more fun than argueing a fundie? Watching two fundies argue each other!

Last edited by St_Andrew on Aug-23-2005 at 16:40

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Originally posted by St_Andrew Seriously what could be more fun than argueing a fundie? Watching two fundies argue each other!

Yea!! Fundy fight!!!

(Reckon TVD is the biggest fundy tho so might be a tough "nut" to crack! )

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Originally posted by George Smiley (Reckon TVD is the biggest fundy tho so might be a tough "nut" to crack! )

Yet paradoxically he's not a Christian (according to him). Jesus is confused.

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Originally posted by George Smiley Isn't that the same thing?

Sorta but not really, in that Russian, Ukranian, Luthuanian, Greek, Syrian, Macedonian, Ethiopian, Alexandrian, etc. churches are "Eastern Orthodox" (is the proper term) in Christian denomination.

That said, and with Eastern Orthodoxy being much more "religiously liberal" than say Roman Catholicism, the content and style of service in individual Eastern Orthodox churches can be quite unique and varied. They can also each have their own Pope.

"Eastern Orthodoxy" is the brand of Christianity that developed in the Eastern Roman Empire (later called Byzantium) after Imperial Rome crumbled. The term probably owes to the "Great Eastern Schism" of 1054 CE between Rome and Constantinople (although problems dividing these factions existed 500 years before the actual schism).

-N

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