Re: virus: Re: META: topical rules

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sun, 9 May 1999 20:37:31 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 9 May 1999, Eric Boyd wrote:

> >> just remember, I haven't actually
> goten one response with enough guts to give a fair answer.
> >>

> I'm not sure what you mean by your last sentence. Do you mean that,
> in the past, you've posed those problems (lord/liar/luanatic, etc.) to
> atheists and gotten unsatisifactory responces?

Or maybe that she asked you to read the bible from _her_ perspective and you analysed it like a history text rather than read the music of it like you might if you were reading Homer or Virgil.

Remember?

-Prof. Tim

PS: Eric, I hope your paper on e-mail communication includes a bit about how people only reply when they disagree and that as a result conflict is selected for over compassion, leading to futher alienation of the individual despite their belief that they're finding "connection" or "community" online.