Hey Charles - Is there any way I can post to everyone on OT and EXCLUDE people who are "too smart to talk to"?
-DC On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Gill Ediger <gi...@worldnet.att.net>wrote: > At 06:29 PM 7/28/2008, CaverArch wrote: > >> In a message dated 07/28/08 17:25:12 Central Daylight Time, >> wavyca...@gmail.com writes: >> Just for the record... and I hope others will chime in as well. >> I do NOT believe. >> > > There are a couple (at least) of phenomena extant that make believing in > things a bit risky. (Bear in mind, please, that "to not believe" in some > particular thing may very well be the same as "to believe" in the opposite > or alternative concept.) > > The first is that "the imagination" is the upper limit when it comes to > coming up with things to believe--or to believe in--or even to not believe. > It should go without saying that throughout history people have believed in > a hell of a lot of bogus things as a result of hallucinations and psychotic > apparitions--not to mention religious pheaux-pheaux out the butt, and of > untold extremes. If the odds were figured we would see that many, many more > of these bogus things have been invented and believed in over the years than > have actually turned out to be true, solid phenomena. True believers still > speak of "superstition" when explaining the contrary beliefs of other true > believers. Go figger. >
