g-rh@cca.UUCP (Richard Harter) (01/12/84)
The bad news on Wombats is that it can be proved that they do not exist, to wit: Either Christianity is the true religion or is not. Suppose that it is not. Then we must settle the question of the existence of wombats by reason based on the evidence of our senses. I have never seen a wombat. Ergo, they do not exist. Conversely, suppose that Christianity is the true religion. Then all truth is contained in the Bible (the final authoritative word of God on all subjects.) However the Bible does not mention wombats; hence they do not exist. Q.E.D. I trust that this meets the high standards for intellectual rigor of submissions to the net. Richard Harter
esj@ihuxl.UUCP (Natty Dread I) (01/13/84)
Obviously another Creationist! Let's tie him up, throw him in a lake, and if he floats, BURN 'IM! (Or is it if he sinks?) "Well, 'e turned me into a newt!" ihnp4!ihuxl!esj
laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (01/14/84)
Richard Harter's proof is marvellous. I, however, have seen a wombat. Therefore Christianity is untrue. This is good, because I don't want to grep it for the occurrance of "Richard Harter". I have not seen him, though, so he doesn't exist. (poof! in a cloud of smoke over in cca). Laura Creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura
franka@tekcad.UUCP (01/14/84)
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tekcad!franka Jan 14 09:45:00 1984
/***** tekcad:net.misc / ihuxl!esj / 12:55 am Jan 14, 1984*/
Obviously another Creationist! Let's tie him up, throw him in a lake,
and if he floats, BURN 'IM! (Or is it if he sinks?)
"Well, 'e turned me into a newt!"
ihnp4!ihuxl!esj
/* ---------- */
No!!! 'E's a witch if 'e weighs the same as a wombat!!!!!
From the truly menacing,
/- -\ but usually underestimated
<-> and soon to be gone,
Frank Adrian
(tektronix!tekcad!franka)twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss) (01/16/84)
I haven't seen Descartes in a long time. Does anyone see him anywhere?
moriarty@uw-june.UUCP (01/17/84)
I'm afraid Descartes has been teaching high school math in the Bronx for the last few years... as I hear it, he hadn't come up with anything new in the last century or so, and so he had to look for work in more conventional areas. On the bright side, he has learned a lot about hand-to-hand combat. Trivia Is My Business | Currently residing in | UUCP: -jwm- | {...decvax!}tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!moriarty | ARPANET: AKA MORIARTY | moriarty@washington
kaufman@uiuccsb.UUCP (01/18/84)
#R:cca:-645900:uiuccsb:9900033:000:84 uiuccsb!kaufman Jan 17 10:37:00 1984 And the wombat says, "Gee, I didn't think of that" and vanishes in a puff of logic.
kaufman@uiuccsb.UUCP (01/18/84)
#R:cca:-646000:uiuccsb:9900035:000:2885 uiuccsb!kaufman Jan 17 16:07:00 1984 | | | _______ | | | | | | / _____ \ | | | | | / / \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ \_____/ / | | | | | '____________Z S____________' | | | / \ | | | | / * ***** \ | | | | / * * \ | | | | / * ***** \ | | | / * * * \ | | / * ***** \ | | / \ | | / \ | | / ***** ***** * * ***** \ | | / * * * ** * * \ | / * * * * * * ***** \ / * * * * ** * \ / * ***** * * ***** \ Z___________________________________________________________S /***** uiuccsb:net.misc / tekcad!franka / 8:45 pm Jan 16, 1984 */ /***** tekcad:net.misc / ihuxl!esj / 12:55 am Jan 14, 1984*/ Obviously another Creationist! Let's tie him up, throw him in a lake, and if he floats, BURN 'IM! (Or is it if he sinks?) "Well, 'e turned me into a newt!" ihnp4!ihuxl!esj /* ---------- */ No!!! 'E's a witch if 'e weighs the same as a wombat!!!!! From the truly menacing, /- -\ but usually underestimated <-> and soon to be gone, Frank Adrian (tektronix!tekcad!franka) /* ---------- */ :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Please put this conversation where it belongs in :-) / / // / net.python! Now, I know that that newsgroup is too :-)///////- full as it is, which is why I am proposing the cre- :-)+++++X ation of: net.python.albatross, net.python.argument,:-)//////-\ net.python.bruce, net.python.dead.parrot, net.py- :-)// -\ thon.find.the.fish, net.python.grail, net.python. :-) 0 -\ gumby, net.python.how.not.to.be.seen, net.python. :-) \ lumberjack, net.python.m00se, net.python.naughty. :-) _____ \______ bits, net.python.penguin, net.python.sheep, net.py- :-) \AAAA\____________I thon.silly.walks, net.python.spiny.norman, and of :-) ---/ course net.python.upper.class.twit.of.the.year. :-)---/ :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) - Ken "Naaah, I never watch the stuff" Kaufman (...!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!kaufman)
esj@ihuxl.UUCP (01/19/84)
You forgot net.python.dinsdale!
kaufman@uiuccsb.UUCP (01/22/84)
#R:ihuxl:-84800:uiuccsb:9900036:000:43 uiuccsb!kaufman Jan 21 13:10:00 1984 And I also forgot net.python.spam. Sorry.