Yea, verily!!!!!
Jim White, K4OJ wrote:
> ...you just couldn 't RESIST that one, now could you Dave
>
>
> It is news to me that ham radio is not a religious experience...
>
> When the gray line passes overhead and the signals rise up from the
> noise on 160 meters, signals from far FAR away places like Japan
> suddenly appear...
>
> Events like this still make the hairs on the back of my neck still
> stand up after 30 years of this stuff... while I may not worship a
> leader of this religion the act of radio communication is in my
> opinion a RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE.
>
> SO, don't mess with my religion otherwise you will be in deep trouble
> with those who uphold religious freedoms....
>
> Are not towers and antennas a form of Temple - reaching towards
> deities not unlike the old Gothic churches did reaching up to the heaven?
>
> Mebbe no flying buttresses are apparent but there are tram lines!
>
> And all these years I am wrong - I had figured those RTTY guys were
> the Monks vowed to silence...
>
> Say it ain't so
>
> Jim, K4OJ
>
> David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
>
>>> Religion is protected at the federal level. Too bad ham radio isn't a
>>> religion.
>>
>>
>>
>> You mean I have been chanting 'Ohmmmmmmmmm' all this time for
>> nothing?!?!?!
>>
>> David Robbins K1TTT
>> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
>> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
>> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>>
>>
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>
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