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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (130696)	4/30/2004 5:39:37 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Try THINKING for yourself You've actually shown far less evidence of sentience than you appear to realize. Your modus operandi, when confronted with an idea with which you disagree, is not to refute it with facts or argument, but to call your opponent names. If you've actually posted something factual, I apologize, because I've missed it. And yes, before you grapple mightily to pull out a tu quoque, I do call people names. Including you. Post facts and you'll get facts in return. Post swill and nobody will make the effort.

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (130696)	4/30/2004 5:42:10 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Trusting no one is not a matter of thinking for yourself, but of the cessation of thought. Much of what we do is evaluate the reliability of sources of information. If we did not by and large trust our textbooks and teachers to be accurate an overwhelming proportion of the time, we would learn nothing. We are not even in a position to independently verify the science that we learned, certainly not until we have access to university level laboratories, and even then, we cannot examine everything for ourselves. If we did not make judgments, well or ill, about news sources, we would not be talking about any of this, because we have to rely on someone to inform us of current events. What you are saying is inherently absurd. Obviously, considering the amount of intelligence which is not universally available, and the amount of expertise involved in matters like this, I am dependent on judgments about the trustworthiness of sources to have any kind of valid opinion about these matters whatsoever.......

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (130696)	4/30/2004 5:48:39 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Didn't anybody tell you Neocon posts from an undisclosed location and Lynn will be calling him for dinner right soon? Rascal @CocktailHour.com