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From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
"Robert Bannister" wrote in message
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> On 13/08/13 11:11 AM, David Hatunen wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:01:18 +1000, Peter Moylan
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 13/08/13 02:44, David Hatunen wrote:
>>>> On 10 Aug 2013 20:51:02 -0400, wdstarr@panix.com (William December
>>>> Starr) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article ,
>>>>> Robert Bannister said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/08/13 10:58 AM, William December Starr wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm certainly not expecting some Brilliant Lone Genius(tm) to
>>>>>>> discover a loophole in General Relativity ("Einstein was
>>>>>>> wrong!"), but "It is known to be impossible" rankles at me. I
>>>>>>> have trouble believing that we know Reality and all of its rules
>>>>>>> completely enough to say that. In fact, I'm not convinced that
>>>>>>> it's possible to know that you know everything about it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am quite certain that I don't know very much about anything, but
>>>>>> I do believe the people who work in that field.
>>>>>
>>>>> Believe them when they say what, precisely? Is it "FTL and time
>>>>> travel are not possible under the rules of the universe as we
>>>>> currently know and understand them" or "FTL and time travel are not
>>>>> possible under the rules of the universe?"
>>>>
>>>> You do realize you could give the same arguments about ghosts, the
>>>> afterlife, and clairvoyance?
>>>
>>> Careful. Do you realise how many powerful religions you're offending?
>>
>> I deleted the ones I started posting for my own safety...
>>
>
> How do you delete a religion?
Get the devotees to believe that any form of sex at all is a cardinal sin.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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