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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe E. Dees <jdees0@students.uwf.edu>
> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 11:13 AM
> Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> > > BTW, I hope you're not apologizing for *my* actions.
> > Joe Dees here.
> > I take it back. Our current "specimen" has indicated he knows and doesn't
> > mind. Who knows; he might even have delusions about scoring celestial
> >brownie points by converting some of us. This is certainly
> >"missionary territory"! Methinks his seeds of Mormon wisdom are
> >falling on stonily logical ground here, and that he might wind up
> >being the proselytized if he's not careful. On the other hand, the
> >fanatical mindset is not one easily permeable to logical thought.
> >See Eric Voegelin's "The New Science of Politics", pp 135-144.
> >
>
>
> The reason I don't mind you guys beating me up is I am so firm and strong in
> my beliefs that I can talk to Satan face to face and wouldn't flinch. So
> fire away! :)
> Everywhere is a missionary opportunity.
>
>So, the stronger our arguments are, the more evil we must be, and
>the less we are to be seriously considered! Talk about a catch-22!
>But not a new one. Dostoyevsky did it in "The Brothers Karamazov"