Messages Dated November 1993
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Re: DOWNLOADING LYNC3.0
Do you really think I would run a commercial system with bad files?????
Paranoid is one thing.... but please feel free to DL it, any reccomended
file
on the system has been throughly examined, run, tested and used by us at
HTS.
I will not say the same for 100% of the files in the general download area
how
ever.
We post these as self extracting archives in order to simplify installation
fo
r novice users, many of who are
Speaking of Priests
i can see why.
when you make such gross generalizations as that first line above,
you leave yourself open to all sorts of back-venom. mine included.
believing that the priesthood is a sick lifestyle reminds me of
Nazis and KKKers and skinheads and Republicans who disapprove of anything
that
they are not, and some of whom go farther to ban that which they dislike,
or
even farther and kill.
my dad's first cousin was a priest and a good and
Catholic atheism
in the conservative rural Catholic grade school i attended, in the 2nd most
Ca
tholic county in the U.S. (ie, Stearns County MN, home of Lake Wobegone),
we a
ttended Mass every morning (i was also an altarboy), had almost all nuns
as te
achers, and had no non-Catholics.
in the conservative city Catholic grade school i attended in the 2nd most
Cath
olic county in the U.S., we attended Mass only on Holy Days during the week,
h
ad
re. unsupported quotations
socialism does indeed exist in America (ask the Democratic Socialist represent
ative from Vermont), and many of the socialist parties in Europe are actually
called "Christian Socialists." what do you see a contradiction between
socia
lism and America somewhere?
Thomas Jefferson never agreed to this idea, and that's why we have freedom
of
religion in this nation freedom for those who believe, and freedom for
those
who do not believe. See his "Act for Establishing Religious Freedom" which
Fred Cornelius
a
since the Greek materialists 6th century bce, and has -always- had a negative
stigma in general society, since belief in the culture's gods was tantamount
t
o belief in the State, and any doubt of the gods' existence was to doubt
the S
tate itself. Socrates was prosecuted and found guilty of atheism, the early
Ch
ristians in Rome were prosecuted and found guilty of atheism, and so on
throug
h today. it was active anti-theism based on atheism
What will you do?
touche'!! politely understated. very nice. most impressive. kudos.
Agnostic / atheist ????
hmmmmmmm definitions are made by creatures of the time, and "atheism"'s
ti
me is long, and its creatures many.
this is a definition derived from the classical greek etymology.
"a-" is a simple negation, also meaning "not" along with "no" but not
"none"
"theos" is "god" in greek, as "thea" is goddess. one may consider "the-"
to be
the root of both, but by itself does not mean "god."
"-ist" is a common suffix that forms an agent
Religious "facts" - not!
more than a phrase, Mr. Wilton, five of them, to be precise from there it's a very small dare to presume to know some small part of
you an
d the hate that motivates your rhetoric.
calling it "scholarship" lends the old-wive's-tale you wrote too much prestige you made a mistake in spewing crap. and i did correct it.
i have yet to see you operate from scientific method.
i may be blind, though, and would most willingly
forcing religion
a good way of rationalizing one of the choices in Pascal's Wager.
Re: Agnostic / atheist ????
this is a party line and a partial definition, but not an inclusive definition
that includes all varieties of atheism.
agnositicsm is not a "disconcern" but rather a suspension of judgment on
the t
opic of the existence of deity based on a lack of reliable data.
very good. but the majority is not necessarily correct in their definition.
there's also a big difference in the popular theistic definition of "atheist"
and the definitions that atheists use for themselves.
"non-belief"
Re: NEW LISTINGS
Donna, because the way the current system is set-up (this will change real
soo
n) new listings are processed during the night and are available the next
morn
ing. We are re-writing the residential side currently to be MUCH easier
and be
tter, and according to National Assoc. of Realtor speciications. (the latest
v
ersion, Oct '93. Look for big improvements in the residential side by
Christ
mas. --Mike--
hands beyond the grave
On 11-18-93 11:52 Jeff Vineburg said something about atheist, to which
I repl
y:
It's an occupational hazard of being a former philosophy professor...
religion & college
On 11-18-93 18:23 Derek Maddox said something about religion college,
to wh
ich I reply:
Just the attitude of many of my former students. IMHO, there is little
point in philosophy depts trying to get too many of their courses
certified as meeting a requirmeent you end up with unwilling students
who aren't interested, won't do the work, and hassle you if you don't
give them an A for just showing up.
That explains the slip-shod work
Agnostic / atheist ????
in the beginning was the Net first off, let me say that i enjoyed your previous post and the inclusivism
of
buddhism within atheism. but then, we diverge sor
t.
claiming that something is something "by definition" is merely reifies the
cur
rent conception of the thing, but does little to explain it, and even less
to
understand it.
i disagree with you that, "by definition," atheists are "non-believers in
a su
preme being of any sort."
Furphy
Well i am an american, and could not think of the meaning for that word.
But,
unlike my fellow NetTriviaNuts, i not only own a copy of "Brewer's Dictionary
of Phrase Fable", i read it cover to cover years ago. And i had a vague
memo
ry of having seen the word there. So i got it out and behold:
"In World War I containers for sanitary purposes were suplied to australian
mi
litary camps by the firm
Re: vouchers schools
hostility is in the mind of the beholder often enough. do not equate intoleran
ce for having ones government usurped as intolerance for religion. religion
is
protected in this country.
TTFN.
Chris
Re: "In God We Trust" slogan
you can file-request it here as:
WHYCOINS.GOD
anytime except 0100-0130 ET and Zone 1 ZMH at 1200-9600+ HST/V32 for FidoNet
l
isted systems only.
TTFN.
Chris
Brainwashing by the Feds and Media
Considering the other things I've seen come from Ms. Thompson, I give this
exa
ctly the same amount of credibility that I give her "theory" that the bridge
h
eights aren't posted on bridges to warn trucks and the like, but to instead
ac
t as gauges for artillery to shoot them out when the government begins the
war
on the people.
Occult ritual and the boy
no
Agreed... as well as getting any government subsidies or promotion.
Re: Tilting at creationist
Actually, if you had bothered to pay attention, you'd find that my
explanation does _not_ contradict your college dictionary. Further,
if you want a truly relevant authority, check a good biology text,
instead of your general-purpose dictionary. I can recommend Keeton's
_Biological Science_, for example. Even better would be a telephone
call to the National Center for Science Education in Berkeley, CA,
510-526-1674. Its director, Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, is a good friend
of mine. You may also wish to