Explain to me...

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friends list filters.

I heard of those more and more often recently. I have no desire to filter my friends list - if I didn't want to read the people on there I wouldn't have friended them - but I'd like to understand what exactly it *means*. What do these filters do? Do they filter posts according to who posted them? According to content? *puzzled*

Oh, and look what cool stuff the Frankfurt university institute of archaeology is up to while I'm gone: http://www.heppenheim.de/hessentag/steinzeitbauern/ - I'm almost sorry I'm not there!

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Well, religious issues...

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in general are a tricky thing to discuss. And some things are better left alone. I have another very religious friend, she's an orthodox muslim, and there are some things we just sort of both decided not to discuss. I have lots of doubts about all things religious, and discussing those with a religious person... well, I don't think it can do a lot of good. At the worst I might 'succeed' in spreading my doubts to other people, and I wouldn't want to do that. The much more likely option, though, is that you or my muslim friend will just realize that I cannot be saved or whatever and feel very sorry for me. I'm not comfortable with either of those options. Of course, the third option is that you might convince me you are right, but I have had plenty of religious discussions with many different people and none of them has managed that, so far, so I think it's unlikely.

As I said, tricky thing to discuss.