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closeupready

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4. People change. Some don't.

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

Fri Sep 4, 2015, 02:49 PM

Sep 2015

I had friends from high school who fundie'd out, and posted all this God and Jesus stuff to their FB feeds, and I had to simply wish them well, unfriend them, and move on with my own life.

If I were you, I'd let him go, and yep, move on with your own life.

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Bumped into an old college acquaintence online. A bigot then, and a bigot now. [View all] Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 OP

You simply can't respond to that. Butterbean Sep 2015 #1

Back quietly away. hifiguy Sep 2015 #2

Just tell him that what he said sounded way better in the original German and leave it at that. nt MrScorpio Sep 2015 #3

People change. Some don't. closeupready Sep 2015 #4

Run into lot of bigots from High School on Facebook. By college, learned how to avoid them. Hoyt Sep 2015 #5

I agree with all your replies, but what really bothers me is... Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 #6

Is there any evidence that bilingual education slows learning? yardwork Sep 2015 #7

I think "bilingual" was the wrong term for me to use. Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 #8