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Politically Incorrect: for those sick of PC
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489 I guess my beef is semantic. A theory requires experiment to test it. ExperimenEmile Vidrine-7/15/1997
488 Faith can most assuredly be debated. At the deepest level however I'm not sJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
487 Alex, IMO religion can not be debated because ALL religions were invented by meJames R. Barrett-7/15/1997
486 I guess my beef is semantic. A theory requires experiment to test it. ExperimenJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
485 JF, my Star Fleet issued "universal translator" just broke down. CoulFuzzFace-7/15/1997
484 " How does a student of nature test Jesus' words and promises?" -Emile Vidrine-7/15/1997
483 Huush, Junior. Paw's a'readin. (probably dreamin, ain't I?) SecondJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
482 As you know I am closer to being an existentialist than I am to being anything epicure-7/15/1997
481 You ain't gonna have no time for books, chum, you gonna be a daddy. Jeff, BlueCrab-7/15/1997
480 >>Time for you to hit the books Please recommend some pertinent titles dJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
479 I agree; I wasn't trying to imply otherwise. The assumptions have to come fJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
478 The empirical tests of science are useful only for measurement, and can't bJF Quinnelly-7/15/1997
477 And do you have faith in logic? One "leap" I make daily is to assume JF Quinnelly-7/15/1997
476 >>Moral argument, problem of evil, etc. While I'm not intimately famiJF Quinnelly-7/15/1997
475 But to apply logic to something as illogical as faith seems to me impossible. epicure-7/15/1997
474 I think <i>any</i> process of the mind can be tested with logic. AtJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
473 I don't think you can test your faith with logic. And I don't think weepicure-7/15/1997
472 All my history education came from grade school, so I've only been taught hJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
471 > I'm not out to bait Emile. He's obviously firm in his faith. In faFuzzFace-7/15/1997
470 Thomas. Thanks. I'm just an armchair philosopher, but I have encountered thFuzzFace-7/15/1997
469 >the reality and necessity of a "first cause" is proven by our abiThomas Scharf-7/15/1997
468 >>Alex, then it is likely that you will find conversing with fundamentaliJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
467 Being broken is reality staring <i>you</i> in the face. You clearlepicure-7/15/1997
466 C'mon in!! But first cry convincingly for the untimely loss of Gianni VersaJacques Chitte-7/15/1997
465 "being broken is not something i would wish on anyone or anything. i wouldEmile Vidrine-7/15/1997
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