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Old 08-28-2004, 02:34 AM   #32
Aerich
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Join Date: May 27, 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 44
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Quote:
Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Where religion is concerned, it's nice to be sitting with the person you are discussing it with. It allows cooler heads to prevail. Online, discussions get out of hand because it's easier to yell and cuss at words on a screen rather than the person in front of your face. Politics gets heated enough online, religion burns like a wildfire.
Aye.

It's also harder to get proper context - no body language, tone of voice, etc. Likewise more difficult to get clarifications about what a person actually means by a particular statement. Language, especially English, is darned imprecise and imperfect.
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