From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 22:53:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FFB1065672 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:53:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=8162412f7=pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com) Received: from ip-002.utdallas.edu (ip-002.utdallas.edu [129.110.20.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D8C8FC0C for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:53:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Group: None X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AroFAG6uTUyBbgogUmdsb2JhbACTG4xTASRBwn2FNgSECA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,264,1278306000"; d="scan'208";a="34344120" Received: from zxtm01.utdallas.edu (HELO utd65257.utdallas.edu) ([129.110.10.32]) by ip-002.utdallas.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 26 Jul 2010 17:53:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:53:30 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5fe257a732fe215609f88432ae3051d4.squirrel@www.gull.us> References: <20100724062446.GD78741@guilt.hydra> <1E1FB8AF2B3AD9F567716164@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <5fe257a732fe215609f88432ae3051d4.squirrel@www.gull.us> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Linux/x86) X-Munged-Reply-To: Figure it out MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: BSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:53:31 -0000 --On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck 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