On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 03:57 am, John E Hayes III wrote: > >>>>I have been mostly deleting all the political discussion recently... In > >>>>addition to it making me ill, I just don't have anything to say. > >>> > >>>Why not? > >> > >>A number of reasons. I have been inundated with it, and none of it will > >>change my mind and I doubt I'll change anyone elses. > > > >People's minds, behaviour and actions are very often changed through > >discussion with other people. That has happened here quite a lot. > > "In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a > really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would > actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them > again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, > because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it > happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that > happened in politics or religion." -- Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote > address > > Cheers > > John
Yes, it has happened to me too. Several times. One time I remember particularly was arguing with my wife until 3 am in the morning that science and religion were not related. She finally convinced me that they were related. then I could go to sleep (to be clear, she was happy to leave it. I kept arguing. I think she was vaguely bemused. Tired, but bemused. Frustrated but bemused. I know she likes me because I woke up free of bruises :-) ) I guess my own lack of clarity has made it very hard for me to articulate exactly why it is wrong to go to war here. I mean, I can think of dozens of reasons, but without a clear idea as to why the US (if living in the US substitute "washington", if in Washington substitute "the folks on the hill" or whatever...) wants to go to war so badly. -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 It's a book. Non-volatile storage media. Everyone should have one. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Your own Online Store Selling our Overstock. http://us.click.yahoo.com/rZll0B/4ftFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
