On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:29:15PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > But, every example you gave had nothing to do with the attitude of one > person towards another. You specifically chose random effects, having > nothing at all to do with interpresonal relationships. I guess I might have
Wrong. It does have something to do, just not very much. Same as prayer. > If that isn't your point, what is? Why did you chose random events? Even > though I'm careless with spelling and pasting from time to time, I tend to > work hard to chose examples that are support my points. I assumed you did > too. I did. They are no more random than prayer. About the same, I judge. Here's another for you: would you claim that we (people with a decent income and standard of living) should all take Prozac or something to help the homeless? That is also roughly equivalent to prayer in how much it would help them. > No, it is not. There are reasons why that do not involve God answering > prayers by intervening on the behalf of the person praying. " Yes, it is. THe reasons are negligible to the point of being silly. > Again, you trivialize the idea that attitude matters, burying it among a > million random variables. So, let me state it real explictly. I think > that attitude matters a great deal more than a pebble in a shoe, a piece of > candy, or any one of a million random factors. I think we convey our > attitude in many different ways. I think we can convey our attitude without > always realizing that we are doing it. If prayer can affect attitude, why can't a pebble in the shoe? Of course it can. > Really? You are definitely the first person I've ever come across who > argued that the concept that attitude matters more than random factors in > human relationship is bad science. No hard feelings Erik, but your posts No, that is not what I am arguing, as I have repeatedly stated. > make you appear to me to be, to put in in PC terms "interpersonal > relationship differently enabled." And your posts make you appear to be brainwashed by religion. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
