Posted by Lou Pilder on August 22, 2003, at 6:55:14
In reply to Two Blocks, so far, posted by shar on August 21, 2003, at 20:59:08
Shar,
You wrote,
[...looking at the admin posts, I am reminded of a bible verse in Matthew...].
I like that verse that you cited, even though I am not a member of christiandom. I am going to have a bible expert look at this thread today and have him make a determination after the thread is finished as to whose fruits are good or bad. He is finishing his Phd at Duke University in biblical studies and is interested in this discussion.
I am also going to ask the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation league to examine this thread for it is my opinion that there is malice here toward the poster that you are bringing up here and if that is me then I consider it defamation toward me for I was using the admin. board for its intended purpose and it was others that wrote what they wrote to cause anything including NikkiT2 who asked me for the posts that were defaming tpward me, and I consider her post to me saying, Lou, you are a nasty piece of work to be malicious. The phrase also goes back to the period of time in England when England was anti-Semitic. The king had made an edict in 1290 expelling the jews and England's writers reflect that in William Shakespear's "Merchant of Venice". Those that want to say that Shakespere was not anti-Semitic say that he wrote the play only to accomodate the anti-Semitism of his day. I consider that the same.
Shakespear used the phrase, "piece of work" in Hamlet. It was a refeerence to something made. When the phrase is used tpward a person, such as Lou, You are a nasty piece of work. then it is saying that what was made is nasty. Humans are made by God according to the people that used that phrase in 1600 or so in England. So it meant that God made me a nasty piece of work. My friends from Hull, England have emailed me about this and say it is worse to call someone a nasty piece of work today. If this board wants to ligitimise the use of that phrase and then use this board to hold me up to ridicule for me expressing my feelings of such, then lets see the rest of this thread.
Lou
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