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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: Re: to Keebler from Marchionni
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 21:22:50 EST
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>> I'm sticking with ours until the atheist can experimentally verify that
>> the soul and therfore the supernatural DOES NOT exist. [MARCHIONNI]

> I'm sticking with my "little green man who hides behind my head" theory.
> Only I can see him, except I can't because he's behind my head.  If I try
> to use a mirror, he hides behind the mirror.
> This is consistent.  You'll have to experimentally verify that he doesn't
> exist.  Remember though, he's sneaky and will hide anywhere. [HUYBENSZ]

Oh, Mikey.  Ever since you had ice cream with god, you're not the same.
(What flavor does he like?)

The point really is, anybody who has the gall to claim "you must prove that my
subjective personal 'realities' do not exist, and that the things I believe to
exist without evidential support do not exist", has no interest in reality.
Whatsoever.  Since the "proof" (to you) that it *does* exist is fraught with
flaws, the fact that you choose to believe it indicates that the real world and
what's in it are not among your active interests.  If they were, you would
surely take a more active role in examining the difference between what you
choose to believe and what is really out there.

P.S. to Scott Deerwester:  Now that Mike has talked to god, do you have
anything to say about *his* experience?  Is *he* a liar, too?  Are you being
unresponsive precisely because you realize that anything you would say to
someone who's had such an experience could just as well be said back to you?
And do you thus get the point?
-- 
Meet the new wave, same as the old wave...
      				Rich Rosen     ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr