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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (186110)	5/3/2006 4:20:59 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Excellent point Hawk: <The truth is.. a position that is unwilling to be publicly discussed and subjected to critical analysis is a position that isn't worth a sht in the first place.*> That's the dividing line between ego and reason. Very often people won't discuss and allow analysis. That's when it's their ego and feelings and beliefs on the line and they do NOT want those things discussed. King George II has more than a bit of that in him. Religions are all full of it. As are most, if not all, groups. Maybe the Skeptics Society is not so subject to the problem. Dogma is the rule. Which is not to say that one has to waste one's breathe explaining everything, as there are only so many hours in the day and a popular attack method is to consume all the opposition's energies. We can see such approaches when explanations are given, which are ignored. Such as my explanations to Geode about why we can know Iran wants nukes. Note that not once did she try to reason those points. Just asserted that I'm an economic ignoramus, declared victory, and left = full of dogma and ego. Mqurice

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