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From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Marie Foster
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 12:34 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Why people cling to faith
Ok.. that is clearer and more in keeping with the principles of rational
discussion. I also need to stick to doing what I told you all to do and
that is
speaking for myself. I accept that faith is a part of me as is scepticism.
Nor
do I have the talent to weigh it on any objective scale.
I only find it alarming that with everything else we could be talking about
and
Sigh
That day that someone chooses to defy logic, you should cease discussion
with them, as discussion is not possible in the absense of logic. Choosing
to ignore reason means that you cannot have a meaningful discussion, as
words then no longer are vehicles for meaning. It is only through logic and
reason that we can establish meaning to ourselves, never mind the more
advancing, we always seem to come back to bashing others for what we
perceive to
be a weakness in thinking. Perhaps you see it as mentally unbalanced for a
person
to defy logic to remain principled. While I may see it as silly, I prefer
to
allow another the choice to live thier life as they see fit.
Be rational and just walk away. There are more important windmills to tilt
at....
TheHermit
Faith,n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without
knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary.