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From: jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
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Subject: Re: How come God doesn't affect Dave?
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Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 20:52:55 EDT
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>                                                                        Paul
> is even to the left of the extreme of the greatest of degrees.  He really is
> hurting inside worse than someone who simply disagrees or agrees with some-
> thing.  It is so obvious that a psychologist would have little trouble diag-
> nosing it as extreme or peculiar behavior likened to a psychosis. 

I don't see how you can pass such a judgement on psychological state of
another person.  This reminds me of the situation in the USSR where 
people who do not agree with Marxist dogma are proclaimed insane.  The
ideology is that Marxism must be good. Whoever proclaims it to
be evil must be crazy, and is sent to a mental institution. 

> 							            Paul 
> is so obsessed with his ideas that he has lost the ability to reason rationally
> about this subject.  I happen to believe in a loving God, but I don't consider
> this as raving and ranting about it.  You would be doing Paul a big favor if
> you didn't pat him on the back and tell him everything is OK. 

I think that the preposition that there is a god - whether good or bad - 
is a delusion.  Yet, I don't consider you or Paul to be insane.  I do not
pat Paul on his back.  If you read my other articles, you would note
that I was very critical some of Paul's Ideas, especially the ones 
regarding entropy.  But I never at any point labeled him crazy.
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