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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:43:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail? 
Message-ID:  <20020905094901.F41451-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <200209050658.g856wD189878@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>

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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Dave Hayes wrote:

> >> > However, given your rejection of authority, who are you to condemn
> >> > police brutality?
> >> Someone who's lost a friend to it.
> > And this is exactly why I find it bizzare that someone who has lived
> > through such an experience would continue to believe that in the end,
> > it's all pretty meaningless.
>
> It's called "controlled folly", and I don't believe it or disbelieve
> it. I try to keep from belief, and stick to knowledge. I know that
> none of this life here on Earth is real. Is a character in, say,
> EverQuest real? Does it have meaning?

While playing these games with you is quite amusing and you think you
are being clever, you couldn't even continue to play them without
acknowledging the God who makes it possible to string words together
into a sentence that has meaningful content.  If you were consistent
with what you say you believe, you would quit posting altogether.
It is quite amusing watching someone trying to be irrational, but
you couldn't even know what it means to be irrational without
rationally defining irrationality.  Any reply you attempt to make
will be an attempt to communicate meaningful content, which
presupposes the rational use of language.

"Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the
debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of
the world?" (1 Cor 1:20)


Neal



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