--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > --- William T Goodall wrote:
> >> Well, religion is evil after all. > > > > <rolls eyes and snorts> > > That's as silly as saying "All men are potential > > rapists." > > That seems rather an inapt comparison since I didn't > state that > religion is potentially evil, but that it is evil. <grin> Both are equally ludicrous statements; instead, I could have said "Love is evil" or "Guns are evil" or "String theory is evil" or... <snip and paste> You later wrote: "Crutches for the mind are probably evil. (Have to think about that one)." Ahh, be very careful here - nearly *anything* can be a mind-crutch: music, reading, web-surfing, love... (and possibly equine obsession ;D ) <serious> If you want to say that *using* anything as a permanent non-thinking mind-crutch is evil, I'd agree -- well, I'd probably say "wrong-headed and ultimately self-crippling" rather than "evil," but certainly wrong. Nearly everyone , at some terrible low point in their life, has needed a temporary mind-crutch to get them through the day/week/month; such use is neither wrong nor evil, but a survival mechanism. It's allowing the 'today' to become 'everyday' that is so dangerous. > How long a minute is depends on which side of the > bathroom door you're on. Oh, very true! <BOSEG> Debbi who has certainly needed various mind-crutches on numerous occasions, but strives to be very aware of them as such, and drop them as soon as possible __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
