From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 11 15:17:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA02396 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:17:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from cc-server9.massey.ac.nz (cc-server9.massey.ac.nz [130.123.128.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA02387 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz) From: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz Message-Id: <199711112317.PAA02387@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from tpc-pc1 by cc-server9 with SMTP(PP); Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:53:14 +1300 Comments: Authenticated sender is Organization: TV Production Centre, Massey University To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:53:04 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Reply-to: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz CC: Nate Williams Priority: normal In-reply-to: <199711111652.JAA16566@rocky.mt.sri.com> References: <199711110645.XAA02334@usr03.primenet.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk While a xtians vs atheists debate may be pushing the "chat" envelope just a little too far, and while I hesitate to participate in a debate that has occured several million times already in every other part of the Net.... Nate Williams wrote: >[...does India exist...] > What, you don't believe me? Well, obviously you must have 'faith' > that this country exists first, or that your 'faith' in the people > who have convinced you that India exists is greater than the 'faith' > you have in me that it doesn't exist. You have 'Faith' based on > someone else's experiene that India exists, and a lack of faith in > me. Bollocks. While this is a nice analogy for looney believers to push in a desperate justification of the unjustifiable, it simply ain't so. India is a repeatable phenomenon. God isn't. -- C. (who thought that Contact was a remarkabley heavy-handed piece of peurile dribble with some very nice special effects). -- Craig Harding Acting Director, Massey University Television Production Centre "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly