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(...) Well, I can tell you my perception has changed since I accidently fell into a debate recently. You know those people who have an inner smugness from the knowledge that in any given gathering of people they are generally smarter than just about (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Larry - your vehemous defence of asking to be left alone is admirable indeed. And you are certainly correct in that you are facing the consequences of your actions - I will actually support your doing so. But I would ask you this - If you knew (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Larry - your vehemous defence of asking to be left alone is admirable indeed. And you are certainly correct in that you are facing the consequences of your actions - I will actually support your doing so. But I would ask you this - If you knew (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Huh? "They most certainly do" what? I'm not sure what you're referring to here. (...) Oh, ye of little faith. Dave! (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're right to call me on that; I wrote that improperly and more-or-less in direct conflict to my overall argument. Science changes in that it is progressive and cumulative, letting go of obsolete or outmoded theories, or at any rate (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I DON'T - Don't let him force you in to his inconsistant "proof" requirements. See 7864... (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) They most certainly do, although it's nice to see that you're answering your own questions... I sense that you are edging closer to God. -Jon (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A suppose this is a slight against religion - stagnation from dogma? If so, I should point out that religion (Christianity at least) hasn't stagnated at all... (...) A bald claim at best - a false statement in reality. (...) No, not really. I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Side point - ARE NOT! Otherwise, you'd stop buying Lego ;-) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Bible was written BY MEN. I refuse to believe that your God would have tapped people on the shoulder 2K years ago, and NO other time in history. Do you believe EVERYTHING written by men? Doubtful. So why believe something written by many (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Plus Reading the press release it might have something to do with transport costs. After all I once heard the Czech Republic being described as the crossroads of Europe.- i.e It's convenient for most of the EU AND for Eastern Europe that (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ah - "current" to you means currently in vogue, whereas to me it meant recent. Ok. (...) Sorry, science does change - at least the way we understand it. (Science is not how we understand things. Science is the framework we use to understand (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Plus Reading the press release it might have something to do with transport costs. After all I once heard the Czech Republic being described as the crossroads of Europe.- i.e It's convenient for most of the EU AND for Eastern Europe that (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So what you are saying is the OT is wrong, the NT is right? The ORIGINAL thoughts and ideas written (by PEOPLE, remember) were too icky, so they watered them down in the NT, and you choose to believe the adulterated ideas? <squirm, squirm> (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) able (...) system (...) Even "meta-information" must be logically consistent. The trick is that most axioms probably do not refer to themselves, but if they do (as the statement in question appears to fall within its own scope), they must pass (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It sounds like a sucky deal to me. (...) I see. So the right to drop your kids in vats of acid only comes with lots of love. (One might say so much love that we can't really experience it, right?) (...) amusement. (...) But wasn't Satan (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I might well be. In fact he well may be right that if this is a claim, that it's subject to its own test, and may well fail it. But I'm not sure that I agree that this particular yardstick has to be able to measure itself. That, I think, may (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mr. Pieniazek: (...) true (...) When Mr. Irvine challenged the author's statement as being (apparently) self-defeating, you responded with: (...) I (...) The question, with this in mind, can be put as follows: Is the author's statement -- "[E]very (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Grin. FUT .debate, this is debate fodder if anything is. Well I just read the entire USSC opinion (you can get to a .pdf of it on the CNN site) and I am not sure I agree. My take on it is that the supremes feel that the Florida Supreme Court (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) OK, if an individual were are the bottom of the social/economic ladder in the US - how could they buy an axe to chop down the tree? Who's tree would they chop down? How would they get to the tree to chop it down? What would they weave cloths (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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