Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:47:46 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> To: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD logo Message-ID: <AANLkTik5Y=%2BVsV8fK28KUQqsEeDMbB080YZh6=RMY53_@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <305ebb1a984a51ba20974e74e41dbeea.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> <B23A174F1E6A41A22E08DAE4@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <305ebb1a984a51ba20974e74e41dbeea.squirrel@www.gull.us>
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:59 PM, David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> wrote: > On Mon, July 26, 2010 3:53 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> --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. =A0In fact, it's >>> pretty >>> well impossible to have a dialog with them that gets anywhere. =A0You >>> 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 questio= n >>> it, and you're an evil person for not agreeing with me." =A0These peopl= e >>> 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. <OT> Seems so, but it's a very interesting topic.I kindly invite all interested in having this discussion here: http://ekowiki.org/index.php/Religion This is a humble project I started a while back when I decided to stop talking and thinking and actually try to do something... </OT> > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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