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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Atheists "stir up shit" (was Re: Religion = Anything that's fun)
- Message-ID: <12194@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:26:35 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.040551.8750@timesink.chi.il.us> <1992Dec21.120310.20489@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1992Dec21.120310.20489@jcnpc.cmhnet.org> mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
- >Harold Platypus (harry@timesink.chi.il.us) wrote:
- >: Why would anyone want to belong to an organization whose charter and
- >: basic beliefs they oppose?
- >
- >Because we are social animals. If the boys friends are scouts, then he wants
- >to be part of the group.
-
- Hold it. This makes no sense whatsoever. Every organisation imposes
- certain requirements on its potential members. If someone doesn't
- meet those requirements, he has no business in the organisation, no
- matter how social an animal he is and how many friends he has there.
- I might as well demand to be admitted as a member of a women's choir,
- because I like the company there. :-)
-
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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