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Originally Posted by JonoBN41
Don't be dissuaded by the Neanderthals. There is actually intelligent life here. Go ahead and add your .08.
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Originally Posted by JonoBN41
Some 50 years ago, I was raised very traditionally and conservatively too. Then I realized I had a brain and that I could think for myself. What a wonderful thing.
"So easy, a caveman can do it."
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You know, perhaps the biggest beef I have with many true liberals I've run across is this inane idea that anyone who doesn't agree with them is either (1) stupid or (2) just has thought about it enough/learned enough.
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Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI
I did not make a judgment about you or your entire chapter.
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I think when one posts something like this (complete with emphasis added, no less):
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Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI
Here's your creed to remind you of what your fraternity stands for:
"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."
-John Walter Wayland
Just something to think about......
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one is most certainly making a judgment about the person the post is directed to. It's an accusation that he doesn't live up to the ideals of his own fraternity.
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