Sodom
Richard Brodie wrote:
> Do you think anything could be more important than being right?
>
> Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
> Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
> http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> Of sodom
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 9:15 AM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: Religion
>
> yea, what he said.
>
> Sodom
>
> Wade T.Smith wrote:
>
> > > And
> > >you're as sure that your tribe is right as any religions zealot I've ever
> > >met.
> > >
> > >(And even more xenophobic than they, I dare say!)
> >
> > Well, I pick my friends very carefully....
> >
> > The 'tribe' of skeptics sit in their 'right' place because they've earned
> > it, not because they read it, or had it told to them, or because they
> > live amongst those who do, and because every fact is backed up by the
> > entire universe, not just recited on a Sunday from a pew.
> >
> > However, it is a 'xenophobia' of ideas and capacity to use them, not a
> > xenophobia of a racial or an ideological characteristic. But, yes, if one
> > does not doubt, question, or strive to find the facts, one is not welcome
> > beyond a visit.