pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman) (08/26/85)
All I could say to Mr. Ardnt is, well, you've confirmed everything I've seen of you from a distance when you decided to attack me personally. Anyone who disagrees with you, it seems, hasn't gone to high school yet. Or hasn't learned to read. I'll have you know that I read more than a few science texts in my quest for a Bachelor's in Physics and a Master's in Electrical Engineering. And more than a few philosophy and religion texts. (I had a very broad liberal religious education, not the strict upbringing you might assume as the ``cause'' of the positions held by some atheist types.) And I went through a bit more than the bare bones Philosophy 101 course that you apparently flunked. I list these things, not because they are relevant, but because credentials seem to impress you, Mr. Ardnt, more than facts do. Mr. Dyer also suggested that my position was worthy of men with butterfly nets coming along. I suggest that maybe Mr. Ardnt and Mr. Dyer are so afraid of coming to grips with a realization of the truth about the Damager-God that they feel the need to ridicule anyone who holds this position. Out of total petrifying fear, perhaps, that it just might be true. ``There are none so blind as those who will not see.'' God wrote that line into the Bible (through His agents) in hopes that it would convince people like Ardnt that it is his beliefs that other people do not see, instead of him not seeing other beliefs. Like the evil of God. Certainly, Mr. Ardnt has never acquired a new belief. His ideas have been stagnant since they were first acquired. He condemns my ideas of coming from as far back as the first century. Since his ideas are even older than that, they must be even worse [sic] than mine. I'm sure the knowledge that Mr. Ardnt is a buffoon of the most idiotic kind is no news to anyone, common knowledge to anyone whos seen anything he's written. He complains about others not reading books that are to his liking. To be sure, those books are typical of the stagnant witless thinking that permeates Ardnt's mind. But worst of all is his condemning of another person's thinking just because he doesn't like it, because he is afraid it might be right, not because he has the facts or even the tools to prove that thinking wrong. So I must ask, Mr. Ardnt (and Mr. Dyer), what it is about the idea of a heinous evil Damager-God fouling up the universe that you fear so much that you can do nothing but ridicule it. (I apologize to others reading this article for the vindictive tone, but I'm sure others among you have been the victim of Mr. Ardnt's out of hand condemnation of anything he just happens not to like.) -- Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories pyuxn!pez
tischler@ihlpg.UUCP (Mark D. Tischler) (08/27/85)
> I suggest that maybe Mr. Ardnt and Mr. Dyer > are so afraid of coming to grips with a realization of the truth about > the Damager-God that they feel the need to ridicule anyone who holds this > position...... You obviously don't know the meaning of the word "truth". > .... Out of total petrifying fear, perhaps, that it just might be true. Don't make me laugh!!! > ``There are none so blind as those who will not see.'' It seems to me that this applies more to you than anyone else. > So I must ask, Mr. Ardnt (and Mr. Dyer), what it is about the idea > of a heinous evil Damager-God fouling up the universe that you fear so much > that you can do nothing but ridicule it. I think that they fear you and your kind more than a non-existent entity. -- Mark Tischler (312) 393-7199 (home) (312) 979-5123 (work) ihnp4!ihlpg!tischler