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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: a priori assumptions
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 20:06:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 20:06:39 1985
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[Is Seifert out to make Hutch's prophecies become reality?]

|All this is based on an a priori assumption that there IS a god and that THAT
|is how he/it is going to behave (a point I've been trying to make to Jeff and
|to others for some time).  But it's irrelevant to this particular discussion.
|
|Also from Rich: Article 4047 of net.singles:
|>>            *********  If you want LOVE, get a dog!  **********
|>> Regards,
|>> Ken Arndt
|>
|>I thought it was agreed that there would be no personal ads in net.singles?
|>Why is Arndt advertising for himself here?
|
|And I thought it was agreed that the truth of Christianity was not
|going to be questioned in net.religion.christian ?  Why are you advertising
|whatever it is you believe/don't believe here?  [ | = SEIFERT]

I took three lines to make a point (in a response to Jeff Sargent) that was
tangentially but not directly related to the discussion at hand.  Seifert takes
an entire article of over 30 lines, including an article from a totally
different newsgroup, to make a point.  What that was, I'm still not sure.  I'll
ask Hutch, the arbiter of impoliteness, to explain what's going on here. 
First off, the gist of all the discussion that you may or may not have missed
is 1) there was no such agreement about net.religion.christian, if you'll read
Laura's article on the origins of the newsgroup and the description of the
newsgroup in the newsgroup list, and 2) since it is a public forum, members of
the public are free to contribute to it, while any communication desired to be
in a private forum has an arena too, called a mailing list.  Secondly, I'm
not sure why the second article was included.  Are you answering Ken's ad? :-)

Sorry to take up your time.  When slandered, attacked, or confused in a public
forum, I'll have something to say about it.  So, if all you have to offer me
is such stuff, don't bother, I'll only rebut and get accused of being impolite.
(Or is that what you have in mind?)
-- 
"It's a lot like life..."			 Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr