From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 22:59:25 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 3FB3D1065675 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:59:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147C68FC1B for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21217 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2010 22:59:24 -0000 Received: from dsl081-163-112.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO ringbill.gull.us) ([64.81.163.112]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 26 Jul 2010 22:59:24 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.gull.us) by ringbill.gull.us with esmtp (Exim 4.71 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1OdWdn-000I5o-Lw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:59:23 -0700 Received: from d-69-91-158-215.dhcp4.washington.edu ([69.91.158.215]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user gull) by www.gull.us with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:59:23 -0700 Message-ID: <305ebb1a984a51ba20974e74e41dbeea.squirrel@www.gull.us> In-Reply-To: References: <20100724062446.GD78741@guilt.hydra> <1E1FB8AF2B3AD9F567716164@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <5fe257a732fe215609f88432ae3051d4.squirrel@www.gull.us> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:59:23 -0700 From: "David Brodbeck" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: BSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:59:25 -0000 On Mon, July 26, 2010 3:53 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --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. Well, all I can say is I was a regular church-goer for 20 years, and went to religious school for six of those, so I come by my position honestly. I guess this is pretty thoroughly OT at this point, though.