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OT...Jerry Falwell is dead
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Pat Flannery
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:17 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

Rand Simberg wrote:
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The only reasonable scientific
position on God is to be a skeptic, not to forthrightly deny Her
existence.


I have seen the face of God!:
http://www.dogma-movie.com/pics/alanis/images/alanis.jpg :-)

Pat
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Scott Lowther
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:25 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

Pat Flannery wrote:

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There well might be fairies in the garden...

Especially if you live near San Francisco.

Bam.
[/Elzar]


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The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake. - H.L. Mencken
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Pat Flannery
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:43 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

Scott Lowther wrote:
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Words mean things, Rand. A denial of the existence of what's clearly
not there has never before been considewred "religious," but I guess
now it is.

"First thing, let's rewrite the dictionary.":
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/glossary.html
Rand's friends hard at work inventing Newspeak. :-)

Pat
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Pat Flannery
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:12 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

Rand Simberg wrote:
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Well, ultimately, that's the case.

You going Zen here, or something?

I think this whole problem was solved by Rene Descartes with that "I
think, therefore I am" concept.
I know I exist, because I'm typing.
I'm pretty sure you exist also, because you're way too annoying not to
have some sort of reality about you. :-D

Pat
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Pat Flannery
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:24 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

Scott Lowther wrote:
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Pat Flannery wrote:


There well might be fairies in the garden...

Especially if you live near San Francisco.

Fruits in the orchard also.

Pat
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Rand Simberg
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:25 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:12:03 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Quote:


Rand Simberg wrote:
Well, ultimately, that's the case.

You going Zen here, or something?
I think this whole problem was solved by Rene Descartes with that "I
think, therefore I am" concept.
I know I exist, because I'm typing.
I'm pretty sure you exist also, because you're way too annoying not to
have some sort of reality about you. Very Happy

Yes, but you completely missi the point, which is one of logic (not
surprising).
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Fred J. McCall
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:34 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

simberg.interglobal@org.trash (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:11:47 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
:Lowther <scottlowther@ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com> made the phosphor on my
:monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
:>>>>
:>>>And as we all know, the *true* scientific method says to take such
:>>>accounts as fact until *proven* wrong... [/Fred]
:>>>
:>>
:>>Nonsense. The scientific method says to be skeptical (on both the
:>>existence, and non-existence of God).
:>>
:>
:>ZOOOM. Right over Rand's head...
:>
:
:No, I was pointing out that you were mischaracterizing Fred's
:argument.
:

Of course he is. He's Lying Lowther. It's what he does.


--
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
soul with evil."
-- Socrates
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Fred J. McCall
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:36 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

Scott Lowther <scottlowther@ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com> wrote:

:
:Besides, Freds arguement really has been that to deny the existence of
:something is a religious claim.
:

False. Do you EVER get anything right, Lowther. Or is it just that
you understand but are a congenital liar?


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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
soul with evil."
-- Socrates
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Scott Lowther
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:57 am    Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead Reply with quote

Pat Flannery wrote:

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Scott Lowther wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:


There well might be fairies in the garden...


Especially if you live near San Francisco.


Fruits in the orchard also.


And nuts in the city and state governments.

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