Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of David McFadzean
Sent: Monday, March 8, 1999 11:57 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: pale religious lechery
At 07:39 AM 3/8/99 -0800, Richard Brodie wrote:
>I think I'm with you, but one can pretty much construct a story S(x) to
>demonstrate anything. That reduces your theorem to "one can construct a
line
>of reasoning R(x) to show anything is useful," which I happen to agree
with,
>but I bet you don't.
You bet wrong. The advantage of having R(x) is that it is open to examination, review and criticism by others. If you have made a false assumption or error in reasoning, someone can point out your mistake. Faith does not allow that possibility. This is extremely important if, like me, you don't have all the answers already.
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/