Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:53:30 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD logo Message-ID: <B23A174F1E6A41A22E08DAE4@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <5fe257a732fe215609f88432ae3051d4.squirrel@www.gull.us> References: <E1OcU31-0002Iw-00.vic_sk-mail-ru@f138.mail.ru> <20100724062446.GD78741@guilt.hydra> <1E1FB8AF2B3AD9F567716164@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <5fe257a732fe215609f88432ae3051d4.squirrel@www.gull.us>
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--On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> wrote: > On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe >> there's no genuine interest in dialog. > > Well, I hate to break it to you, but people who are trying to make a > religious point aren't interested in dialog, anyway. In fact, it's pretty > well impossible to have a dialog with them that gets anywhere. You can't > have a sensible debate when the other person's fallback response is always > "it's god's will, so it's beyond our understanding and we can't question > it, and you're an evil person for not agreeing with me." These people > have been taught from a young age that logic is evil and will lead them > down the road to hell, so logical arguments are lost on them. > The assumptions and bias in that statement are so broad as to defy description. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson
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