Re: What is going on with this list?

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 9308
Date: 2001-09-10

--- In cybalist@..., liberty@... wrote:
> What is going on with this list? This comment posted by Mr.
Pedersen
> is offensive:
>
> "Now that's interesting. It seems that Thor was a mulatto. Well -
> live and learn I say. That sheds new light on his somewhat Tyson-
like
> behavior in other accounts." (see post # 9203)
>
> Did you intend this as some kind of tasteless joke Mr. Pedersen or
do
> you really wish to be seen as a racist? The following addresses
from
> another recent post are to sites run by fundamentalist and racist
> Christian groups and to call the "information" on them nonsense is
to
> be charitable:
>
> http://www.childrenofyahweh.com/Comparet/historic_proof.htm
> http://www.christianbiblestudy.org/OPS/CIMMER.htm
> http://bible.crosswalk.com/cgi-bin/lexicon.pl?id=0674h
> http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Hebrew/heb.cgi?
> number=0674&version=
>
> Other list-members seem to be playing out personas from a Dungeons
> and Dragons game or a renaissance fair. Also, please tell me that
> the Ra-hotep story was intended as a bizarre joke.
> -David

I wrote that. If I have offended anyone, please accept my apologies.
What I was thinking was that this gave my inner representation of
those stories of Thor that are familiar to me since my chidhood, a
whole different scenario. And in that inner representation Thor would
then not only behave in ways rather similar to the ways mr. Tyson has
behaved in the past, he would look like him too.

Torsten