andree@uokvax.UUCP (12/25/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-294000:uokvax:8300024:000:599 uokvax!andree Dec 22 19:23:00 1983 Even more interesting: why the distinction between two forms of media, both of which require special equipment to read? I'm speaking of microfilm and disk, of course. However - this is all moot. Religions are religions because they aren't suspectible to rational argument. Hence, you should do as whoever you believe to have the best line to the appropriate diety instructs you in this matter. In my case, finagle doesn't give a hoot, so I can spell his name out (and even lower-case it). Come to think of it, mentioning his name may attract his attention, so I probably ought to avoid it. <mike
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (01/06/84)
-- From: andree@uokvax.UUCP
-- Even more interesting: why the distinction between two forms of media,
-- both of which require special equipment to read? I'm speaking of
-- microfilm and disk, of course.
I understand that the difference is that microfilm is still "writing"
in the conventional sense. A physical copy exists on the medium; and
with some microfilm, you can read it (perhaps not very well) without
any special equipment. Also, the special equipment is really no different
than a pair of glasses. Disk, on the other hand, does not store something
written. It stores a bunch of magnetic impulses which your computer
CONVERTS to print on your terminal.
-- However - this is all moot. Religions are religions because they aren't
-- suspectible to rational argument. Hence, you should do as whoever you
-- believe to have the best line to the appropriate diety instructs you
-- in this matter.
True; although in Judaism we don't really think of any rabbi as having
a "line" to the Deity. Rabbinic answers to questions are based on learning,
scholarship and religious observance.
Dave Sherman
Toronto
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