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Subject: Re: Re: Bickford on Maroney
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 15:25:49 EST
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> > Tim had posted his massive missive a couple of times before, each time
> > more illogical than before.
> How could the same article be more illogical on successive readings/postings?
> Perhaps the reader becomes more intransigent each time he/she sees flaws in
> his/her logic.

Check out that knee-jerk, Rich. Tim added a couple of more illogical
arguments when he reposted.

> > Another netter and I each showed the
> > incredible illogic and implicit assumptions of the arguments.
> No you didn't.  Rather, the non-religionists have been showing the
> incredible illogic and implicit assumptions of religionist arguments.

Wrong. Tim did as so many have - assumed a sourcebook of information on
a subject, then picked and chose as he saw fit. Of course, he picked
only those few things that supported his view and completely discarded
the context that would deny it.

> > They all wanted intellectual reasons to excuse their morals.
> I never knew their morals needed "excusing"...

Rich Rosen not knowing something? :-) Trying to justify immoral behavior
goes on all the time.

> Sorry for the tone, but I get deeply offended when I hear people making
> proclamations like "I've already answered that question" in a manipulative
> attempt to snow people.

No snow on this floe. I was just saving the net from another n-kilobyte
deluge.
-- 
		The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
		{amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab

You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.