Re: One of those strange phone calls

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 30, 8:22=A0pm, "Bill" <billnomailnosp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Bob La Londe" <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:JjABq.2252$cN1.1992@n=
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> > "tourman" <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> With social media so prevalent today, I wonder why names of
> >> offenders
> >> don't appear on Facebook and Twitter. Being chastised or shunned by
> >> your peers can be a strong motivator to change behaviour =A0(yes, I
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> >> see the great dangers in this approach)
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> > I am glad you see that. =A0When I first started to read this I had a
> > flashback to listening to an acquaintance rationalize the behavior
> > of him and his church for shunning a young woman for having a child
> > out of wedlock. =A0I'm not kidding. =A0This was contemporary relatively=
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> > I think it was in the early 1990s. =A0She claimed she had been raped,
> > but they shunned her anyway. =A0Turns out it was true, and the church
> > stopped shunning her. =A0His rationalization was that he thought it
> > made her stronger. =A0I could tell even he struggled with that one.
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> > Social stigma by a jury of the general public running on gut
> > feelings and incomplete information might just have its risks
> > dontcha think.
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> Hopefully she learned that those people and those like them are not
> her friends.
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> A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you!-

Some people have a lot of friends and some don't.

Do those who have a lot of friends lie alot or just live a boring life?