Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:58:52 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <9c8bb45e-0a48-4ee4-d89a-67178dead367@example.net> References: <963787aa-dddb-e612-93d7-2c3165744551@example.net> <7b7770d1-08b1-91c7-acee-8892b7184cbe@example.net> <4ab6e7ba-e368-b4f8-f3c7-bc5c522cc0b2@example.net> <41f6e8a9-42aa-453d-21ed-bca26c44c9f6@example.net> <2eb5fab9-b487-e7ea-77d9-1a64a53bca22@example.net> <5d131ac2-9a69-0bca-cb3d-143d5e82a7f1@example.net> <8931fd11-ff9c-6537-3b1e-4c3de36846a7@example.net> <4716dc22-d4a9-cc96-4900-9b71987181a8@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3115560"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62509 On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: >> >> We each have our crosses to carry! ;) I remember that my mother thought it >> was very important that I should become confirmed at around age 15 or so. I >> was against it, but after a lot of poking and prodding and begging in order >> to please my grand parents who were religious as well, I finally agreed to >> attend. So basically it was like a discussion club with philosophical >> themes with a bit of jesus snuck in here and there. > > > Heh ... my mother was a Lutheran. They 'babtised' me > without my permission before age one. Same here. Never thought about it really until I got my first job and discovered that my church membership cost me an additional 0.2% tax, and immediately left church. > Somewhere around age 8 I was sitting in a church pew, > listening to the preacher, and had one of those 'epiphany' > things .... "Fairy-Tales For Grown-Ups" - all the swirling > bits parted for a moment and all was clear. Still remember > exactly where I was sitting ..... > > No, don't hate religious people ... it's a common enough > delusion. I'm not one of THOSE unbelievers. I think it's > just best to lead by example - not by the sword. I like religious people as long as they don't try to push their fantasies on me, or stop me from living the way I like. I also do not like moslems, because I do not consider it a religion, just a barbaric mind control tool that has no place on this planet and should be eradicated. Perhaps the sufis can stay... maybe. > Oh, the Boy Scouts wouldn't let me in because I was > an unbeliever ... but I kinda understood that. They > had their agenda. What!? Aren't they about nature and stuff? Or are they a religious organization in the US?