mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) (11/10/84)
Those who have read any of the Divine Comedy are familiar with Dante's notion that those who are in Hell have in fact chosen to be there. (I freely admit, by the way, that I may have my source wrong; it's been MANY years since I read Dante.) At any rate, Yirmiyahu seems to be going out of his way to provide the net with a second illustration of this principle, Tim Maroney being the first. I don't hate Yiri, although I am often exasperated with his style of argument. I do fail to understand why he has to attack everyone who disagrees with him with such rage and (dare I say) even hatred. I do feel no qualms about telling someone that I think they are wrong; why Yiri should think that this is necessarily hatred is beyond me. I admit to being intemperate on recent occasions; frustration has a way of removing one's better sense. I am getting extremely tired of Yiri's constant allegations that a) we have never read anything, and that b) anyone who dares to disagree with him is anti-semetic. Let me tell you something; went I went to High School, and took sacred studies, we didn't study pious little tracts on St. Teresa; we read critiques of christian ethics, and Camus and Sartre, and in college, Neitzche and Heidegger. As for the insinuation that I am anti-semetic, I have many jewish friends, reform, conservative, and orthodox; we sometimes have spirited discussions of religion. I don't consider them anti-christian, and I see no signs that the think of me as anti-semetic. Seems like it is just you, Yiri. Perhaps the fault lies within yourself. Charley Wingate