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james_nicoll was) curious about what had happened to Pierre Savoie, revered Usenet lunatic and the strychnine of many an RPG mailing list.
Well, rumours of his death aside, Pierre is alive and well. He seems to have eschewed the gaming subculture entirely, in favour of electronic music and writing nutty letters to the editor to Eye Magazine on his pet topic, that being the superiority of the secular white man. Here’s one from last October.
HOLY WAR CONTINUES
Theresa Smyth, in responding to another letter, claimed that "the West's Christian inheritance" led to freedoms (Letters, Oct. 12). I once debunked claims of Christianity leading to progress in a most public way on Citytv's Speaker's Corner -- and I won the weekly prize! I pointed out that in the Middle Ages with European society in firm religious control, there was no progress to be seen. How is that consistent with the claim religion promotes freedoms? It was secularism, arising while Catholics and Protestants were busy weakening each other and leaving everyone sick of religion, that led to massive social progress in the Age of Enlightenment. PIERRE SAVOIE
He won a prize on Speaker’s Corner. Awesome. I think I won a prize on SC once.
james_nicoll was) curious about what had happened to Pierre Savoie, revered Usenet lunatic and the strychnine of many an RPG mailing list. Well, rumours of his death aside, Pierre is alive and well. He seems to have eschewed the gaming subculture entirely, in favour of electronic music and writing nutty letters to the editor to Eye Magazine on his pet topic, that being the superiority of the secular white man. Here’s one from last October.
HOLY WAR CONTINUES
Theresa Smyth, in responding to another letter, claimed that "the West's Christian inheritance" led to freedoms (Letters, Oct. 12). I once debunked claims of Christianity leading to progress in a most public way on Citytv's Speaker's Corner -- and I won the weekly prize! I pointed out that in the Middle Ages with European society in firm religious control, there was no progress to be seen. How is that consistent with the claim religion promotes freedoms? It was secularism, arising while Catholics and Protestants were busy weakening each other and leaving everyone sick of religion, that led to massive social progress in the Age of Enlightenment. PIERRE SAVOIE
He won a prize on Speaker’s Corner. Awesome. I think I won a prize on SC once.
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Date: 2007-01-19 04:24 pm (UTC)Doug.
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Date: 2007-01-19 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-19 05:39 pm (UTC)*ie "nuts", "lovebirds", "one too many", etc.
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Date: 2007-01-19 09:03 pm (UTC)