4th mail today ... the topic was Respect (not the existence of God)
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:41 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > Please explain how what I wrote is off topic, Ian? > > > ________________________________ > From: Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:36 AM > Subject: Re: [MD] Respect > > Hijacking a thread by changing the subject is hardly respect, Ron ? > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:30 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ian had submitted: >> >> >> From yesterday's BBC R4 In Our Time - on the ontological argument for god. >> >> QUOTE >> The Ontological Argument is quite a way down the list of subjects with >> which I would have thought I would get absorbed. But I did. The notion >> of a medieval Benedictine monk from Italy, via France, becoming >> Archbishop of Canterbury and sitting down to compose through logic >> alone a proof for the existence of God, and both proving it to the >> satisfaction of some people and not proving it to the satisfaction of >> others, was extremely seductive. ... >> >> The thing about other worlds of knowledge is that the more you examine >> them and the more you get to know them, the more respect you have for >> them. It doesn't matter very much whether they seem to be way off-key >> when compared with "modern" knowledge or information. >> UNQUOTE >> >> [Ron comments] >> I noticed an article that modern science is close to ruling out the existence >> of God. I thought, what a stupid article! What a loaded comment! >> >> It all depends on what you mean by the term "God" >> >> Through examination and rendering other worlds of knowledge more >> intelligible, we can better grasp it's meaning, it's value. >> >> .. >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
