Yes, I could tell you tales, though let it be at: been there, done that. I just love those aspergers who serve textbook for breakfast. Their prejudices go back to the stone ages. It's that cast eyes upwards look while pointedly not looking at the victim I like. They imagine what has been designated a nutcase does not notice. What about "I just had a conversation with my ghost!" for starters. Groucho Marx is good at pulling the Mickey out of it.
adrian QUIET VOICE wrote: > I'm a skeptic. I don't believe in God, in chiropractice, in > astrology, in Barak Obama, in megavitamins, you name it, I don't > believe in it. But consider the following scenario. You are in an > English class at college, and your professor gives you the following > assignment: Write a story where a person believes something that > nobody else does - and yet the person is correct. This might require > a lot of imagination, but can it be done? > To be more specific, imagine a man walks into a police station to tell > them a crime story. The cop at the desk asks him to sum up the story > in one sentence. The man says "OK, I'm being drugged by unknown > people in my own home.". > How would the policeman react? Would he ask for details on this > story? Well I tried the experiment, and the policeman immediately > phoned my relatives. He locked the door to the police station so that > I would stay there until my relatives showed up. > In other words, by just uttering one sentence, you can convince people > you are insane. > And yet like I said - remember the English assignment. If you really > had to construct a story where something like this was true - could > you do it? > And if you could, what does this say about Epistemology? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
