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   Michael Gray to All   
   Re: Truth has no legs   
   05 Apr 06 13:53:38   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism   
   From: fleetg@newsguy.spam.com   
      
   On 4 Apr 2006 20:26:11 -0700, "lseib@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"   
    wrote:   
     - Refer: <1144207571.010471.173320@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>   
   >   
   >Joseph H wrote:   
   >> David V. wrote:   
   >> > Michael Gray wrote:   
   >> > > On 3 Apr 2006 13:52:10 -0700, "Joseph H"   
   >> > >  wrote: - Refer:   
   >> > > <1144097529.978644.211960@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>   
   >> > >   
   >> > >> Truth has no legs. It doesn't run. It has no narrative. It   
   >> > >> doesn't stir the heart. It doesn't insist or demand. It   
   >> > >> doesn't dream. It has no form or beauty.  It doesn't offer   
   >> > >> hope or redemption. It has no flags or anthems. It has no   
   >> > >> symbols.It doesn't market itself well.  It just is.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > I bet you are the life and soul at parties!   
   >> > >   
   >> > > (Ah, I see, you are a "philosopher". That explains your   
   >> > > absolute statements of quite unsupportable and erroneous   
   >> > > personal opinion, as though they were somehow universal   
   >> > > immutable facts.) --   
   >> >   
   >> > That's why he's in my killfile.   
   >>   
   >> Please, David, I make this appeal to you.   
   >>   
   >> Cyberspace hasn't been the same since you so cruelly cut me off. Please   
   >> let me enter your world again. I promise I will be zealous and dutiful.   
   >> I will definitely NEVER tell the truth again. I will enter all your   
   >> impassioned denunciations of Creationism with added zeal. I will be a   
   >> narrow and unthinking humanist. AND I WILL BEAT DOWN ALL PALTRY   
   >> ATTEMPTS AT THOUGHT-   
   >   
   >Ah a creationist, no wonder you use so many word to say nothing   
   >at all.   
   >   
   >Larry   
      
   I do believe that Joseph was joking.   
   --   
      
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