Re: Fake religion

2009-12-04 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Dec 4, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:52 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Dec 2009, at 21:11, Bruce Bostwick wrote: All religions are fake from the perspective of those seeing them from outside. No religion is fake from the perspective of its true believers.

Re: Fake religion

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Land
On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:52 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Dec 2009, at 21:11, Bruce Bostwick wrote: All religions are fake from the perspective of those seeing them from outside. No religion is fake from the perspective of its true believers. Not a very useful metric, all things considered

Re: Fake religion

2009-12-04 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Dec 2009, at 21:11, Bruce Bostwick wrote: > All religions are fake from the perspective of those seeing them from outside. > > No religion is fake from the perspective of its true believers. > > Not a very useful metric, all things considered. I see all 10,000 or so current religions as f

Re: Fake religion

2009-12-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:40 PM Tuesday 12/1/2009, William T Goodall wrote: Remind me which one of these is supposed to be the evil phoney religion? http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/12/irish_govt_report_on_catholic.php http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2009/11/16-john-lindsteins-lawsuit.html Is the

Re: Fake religion

2009-12-03 Thread Bruce Bostwick
All religions are fake from the perspective of those seeing them from outside. No religion is fake from the perspective of its true believers. Not a very useful metric, all things considered. (Alignment with the majority perspective isn't much more useful, either, unfortunately, as in the f

Re: Fake religion

2009-12-03 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Julia wrote: -Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l- boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Bostwick Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:28 AM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: Fake religion "

RE: Fake religion

2009-12-03 Thread Julia
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Bostwick Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:28 AM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: Fake religion "Sorry, the page you were looking for in the

Re: Fake religion

2009-12-03 Thread Bruce Bostwick
"Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog Infinite Complacency does not exist." On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:40 PM, William T Goodall wrote: http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2009/11/16-john-lindsteins-lawsuit.html The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed

RE: Fake religion

2009-12-03 Thread Julia
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of William T Goodall Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 7:40 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Fake religion Remind me which one of these is supposed to be the evil

Fake religion

2009-12-01 Thread William T Goodall
Remind me which one of these is supposed to be the evil phoney religion? http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/12/irish_govt_report_on_catholic.php http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2009/11/16-john-lindsteins-lawsuit.html Evil is as Evil does Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : w...@wtgab.