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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (20718)	6/28/2005 2:13:37 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

"My agenda is nothing more than to discuss and/or debate interesting issues or questions. What's yours?" Egsactly. You seem like a good egg, so would you be so kind as to provide us with the proofs of your personage. If you can accomplish that task, then please share with the rest of us the criteria upon which you base your evidence. From that 'evidenciary' criteria, perhaps we would be able to move this topic from its inception and get to the issue of decerning human rights. We seem to be stuck in one of those circular arguments of which comes first. You know like 'the chicken or the egg'. FWIW the answer to that delemma seems to be 'Archaeopteryx'. Perhaps a similar approach might help us in this discussion. Is there something essentially human that is present in existence that entitles flesh to humanity, something other than developmental line drawing or potentials? Solon indicated a fully functioning nervous system might do it for him. Is mind limited to the constraints of electro chemical processes in the nervous system? Best regards, the turnip

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (20718)	6/28/2005 2:36:27 PM
From: Greg or e	Respond to of 28931

Now you've done it! You've awakened (cue the echo machine) "THE POWER BEHIND THIS THREAD" Solon Epiphanes is slowly turning into Solon Epimanes. (Captain Queeg removes the steel balls from his pocket and he spins them in his palm insistently as he speaks.) "Ah, but the strawberries! That's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with ("ADVANCED") geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist! And I'd have produced that key if they hadn't pulled Caine out of action! I-I-I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer and!......(realizes he has been ranting, babbling) Naturally, I can only cover these things from memory if I've left anything out, why, just ask me specific questions and I'll be glad to answer them...one-by-one..." (Emphasis mine) You'd be paranoid too if everyone was out to get you.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (20718)	6/29/2005 5:31:09 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

"It matters not that I arranged them together" LOL! It matters EVERYTHING that you created a sentence out of clip and paste--and brought disparate elements together. If your goal was not trickery, confusion, and outright pretense...this would have been inappropriate and feckless! "Since I don't know you and had never previously, to my knowledge, encountered you on SI or anywhere else, you would have to be rather egotistical and paranoid to think I have some agenda that could be "further[ed] by personally attacking"" You are displaying ignorance. You have attacked many people on SI whom you do not know. You do not like my belief system. Your "agenda" is not to attack me (so far as I am aware). But attacking me certainly is intended to promote your agenda., isn't it? Or do you do it because you are a masochist!--LOL!! "Funny, that's what I accused you of doing" And all honest and intelligent people reading the posts know where that led you!!--LOL!! ONCE AGAIN: "your attempt to distort and to ridicule WAS an intrusion! It WAS asinine and witless! And it WAS as phoney as a six dollar bill!"" Now did you want to talk about your abortion beliefs? Or is your only purpose here to shoot off your mouth like a mindless social insect? You are welcome to spit and spittle if that is your claim to fame!