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Pat Flannery Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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Rand Simberg wrote:
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The only reasonable scientific
position on God is to be a skeptic, not to forthrightly deny Her
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I have seen the face of God!:
http://www.dogma-movie.com/pics/alanis/images/alanis.jpg :-)
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Scott Lowther Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:25 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
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There well might be fairies in the garden...
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Especially if you live near San Francisco.
Bam.
[/Elzar]
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Pat Flannery Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:43 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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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.
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"First thing, let's rewrite the dictionary.":
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/glossary.html
Rand's friends hard at work inventing Newspeak. :-)
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Pat Flannery Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:12 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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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
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Pat Flannery Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:24 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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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.
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Fruits in the orchard also.
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Rand Simberg Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:25 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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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:
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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.
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Yes, but you completely missi the point, which is one of logic (not
surprising). |
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Fred J. McCall Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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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:
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:>>>And as we all know, the *true* scientific method says to take such
:>>>accounts as fact until *proven* wrong... [/Fred]
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:>>Nonsense. The scientific method says to be skeptical (on both the
:>>existence, and non-existence of God).
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:>ZOOOM. Right over Rand's head...
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:No, I was pointing out that you were mischaracterizing Fred's
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Of course he is. He's Lying Lowther. It's what he does.
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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
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Fred J. McCall Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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Scott Lowther <scottlowther@ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com> wrote:
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:Besides, Freds arguement really has been that to deny the existence of
:something is a religious claim.
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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
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Scott Lowther Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: Re: OT...Jerry Falwell is dead |
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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.
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And nuts in the city and state governments.
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