On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Alejandro Imass <a...@p2ee.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:59 PM, David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> wrote: >> On Mon, July 26, 2010 3:53 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: >>> --On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: >>>>> When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe >>>>> there's no genuine interest in dialog. >>>> >>>> Well, I hate to break it to you, but people who are trying to make a >>>> religious point aren't interested in dialog, anyway. In fact, it's >>>> pretty >>>> well impossible to have a dialog with them that gets anywhere. You >>>> can't >>>> have a sensible debate when the other person's fallback response is >>>> always >>>> "it's god's will, so it's beyond our understanding and we can't question >>>> it, and you're an evil person for not agreeing with me." These people >>>> have been taught from a young age that logic is evil and will lead them >>>> down the road to hell, so logical arguments are lost on them. >>>> >>> >>> The assumptions and bias in that statement are so broad as to defy >>> description. >> >> Well, all I can say is I was a regular church-goer for 20 years, and went >> to religious school for six of those, so I come by my position honestly. >> >> I guess this is pretty thoroughly OT at this point, though. > > <OT> > Seems so, but it's a very interesting topic.I kindly invite all > interested in having this discussion here: > http://ekowiki.org/index.php/Religion > This is a humble project I started a while back when I decided to stop > talking and thinking and actually try to do something... > </OT>
Oh, and BTW it runs on FBSD, of course ;-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
