Re: [RETIREMENT] Nick Demola

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:27:25 -0600, "Greg Roberts"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


>No, my point was that you've now become a man and you should leave
>those schoolyard days behind you. We all got teased and ridiculed in
>school for some reason or another. If you carry that with you for the
>rest of your life and let it color your interaction with people,
>you're carrying a lot of useless anger. I got teased (and still do,
>mind you) about my weight. Should I spend the rest of my life trying
>to hurt thin people because of what a few cruel and thoughtless kids
>said or did 25 years ago?

A) The bulk of my dislike towards the Christian church has little to
do with what happened in a schoolyard. It has more to do with what has
happened in history, and what continues to happen now. In fact, when I
was young enough to be in elementary school, I was too young to really
understand what all the fuss was about.

B) The bit about me "getting big and showing them" was a _joke._ I do
realize that at times, my humor is fairly dry, and sometimes subtle,
but come on. I got teased more in elementary school because I was
small, and I had more acne than average... Oh, and my name ("Huh...
Mathew. Haw. You like _math,_ Mathew?" "Ummm... Actually, yeah, I do."
"Yeah, well... Ummm... Uhhh... SHUT UP! *smack*").

Out of interest, did you see that news show last week (I forget which
one. Dateline, maybe) that dealt with ultra-conservative students
blacklisting professors in university with a Liberal bias? What's your
thoughts on that? I admit that I immediately thought of you, mostly
because you're one of the few right-wingers I know...