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- From: system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Come on Mr. Johnson
- Message-ID: <15kTXB3w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 02:54:11 EST
- References: <1993Jan21.175244.1057@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- ford@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com.mcm.hp.com (Dan Ford) writes:
-
- > It would be greatly appreciated by many on this group if you would take the
- > time to carry on a two sided conversation with *someone* other than yourself.
-
- "Conversation?" Read: interminable savage flame war.
-
- "Two sided?" Read: Let's gang up on the creationist.
-
- > I think that many of us would like to see you respond seriously to Chris
- > Colby. Clearly you can't respond to everybody, or you would get nothing else
- > done. But in the interest of honor, and integrity, I believe it is encumbent
- > on you to dialog with Chris (or Matt if you like).
-
- "Respond seriously?" Read: get so involved in answering our
- disconnected barrage of flaming posts that you
- inevitably contradict yourself in some minor way.
- Then we can use that contradiction to ridicule
- everything else you say.
-
- Alternate reading: take the bogus, impotent
- doctrine of Darwinism as a serious threat. Then we
- can claim that Darwinism MUST be true since it is
- so threatening to its opponents.
-
- "Honor and integrity?" Read: do what we want or we'll mock you for
- having no honor or integrity.
-
- "Encumbent upon you?" Read: debate with us or else our mockery will
- grow stronger and stronger until you stop
- posting your disquieting articles.
-
- > You may not be aware of this, but a common behavior observed on this group,
- > is for someone to appear posting several long discourses (often just articles
- > or chapters from some book which have been transcribed for the purpose of
- > posting to this group), and then to ignore all responses or questions.
-
- Whole paragraph above Read: please, oh please let us get our hands on
- you. Why do they always get away? Oh please, just
- this once, let us get our hands on you!
-
- > My rhetorical question for you is: do you believe this to be a useful
- > behavior?
-
- Speaking in support of Dr. Johnson, I can say that it is very definitely
- useful to me. I do not mind reading what someone has to say, especially
- someone who has the mettle to question something as phony as Darwinism.
- So here's my vote:
-
- Dr. Johnson: please post as often as you wish. I will read every word
- with interest, and I will never demand that you engage in any useless
- arguments with me. I'm sure there are others who feel the same way. We
- are glad to have another articulate voice speaking against this nonsense
- of "scientific" materialism.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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