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• +96 ani625 on 11/19/2008

  Fwd:Fwd:FWD:FWD: Bill Gates Is Sharing His Fortune !!! Microsoft will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a check for $800.00 !!!!

• +58 bstockwell on 11/19/2008

  Chain mail is essentially the stumble upon for the over 50 crowd.

• +31 ElBeh on 11/19/2008

  No Nigerian princes?

• +29 UcIc on 11/20/2008

  Got this one the other day: CHRISTMAS STAMPS How ironic is this??? They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp, and the USPS won’t even consider posting the Ten Commandments on federal property!!! USPS New Stamp This one is impossible to believe. Scroll down for the text, and if there’s only one thing you forward today, let it be this!!! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE! REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 ! REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks! Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class Holiday postage stamp. Please … adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors! Pass this along to every Christian and patriotic AMERICAN you know! Pretty ***** ridiculous coming from a bunch of people who claim to be Christians. My response (which I was sure to BCC to EVERYBODY who's name I could strip out of the part of the message which lists the previous people who received it in forwards: First off, that stamp isn't even to commemorate Christmas. After some research, I found it's actually for "Eid Al-Adha - a Muslim holiday which commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael in response to God's command". In 2007 (one of four years the stamp was issued or updated) this occurred on December 20. Source: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/eidstamp.a ... Even if that e-mail had been absolutely accurate in stating that it was to commemorate Christmas, there is no other way to describe the true message as that of racism and without religious tolerance. Was not this country founded on religious freedom? Does not Christianity's teachings demand that you love and forgive one another? Is it not up to God, and not any man's duty to cast judgment on man? Why propagate a message of hate towards the Muslim religion in that case? It certainly is not the will of ALL Muslims in the world to inflict harm on others - simply a group of extremists. How is it fair at all to lump a whole group of people together because of the actions of a select few? It's no different than a tune to the effect of: REMEMBER the CHRISTIAN slaughter of the Jews during the holocaust (A good majority of the Nazi party was Christian). REMEMBER the CHRISTIAN bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII which killed hundreds of thousands of largely innocent people (Harry Truman, who authorized use of the atomic bomb was a Baptist). REMEMBER the CHRISTIAN crusades of the middle east between the 11th and 13th centuries where over 9 million people were killed (half Christian, the other half of other religions). Klu Klux Klan anyone? Or any other number of events/extremist groups that can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism I could go on and on... but see how ridiculous it is? There will never be any measure of peace throughout the world if this type of mindset continues. I encourage you not to continue the spread of this awful message and hope you think twice about forwarding it next time you receive something like this. I encourage you to reply to the sender as well. If I have offended anyone, I apologize, but please think long and hard about whether you have just cause for it.

• +26 SrDigger on 11/19/2008

  there should be some kind of punishment for people that Fwd stuff like this... a severe punishment!