Re: Native Hawaiian Religious Imbeciles

2015-12-27 Thread Pierz
On Monday, December 28, 2015 at 2:01:09 PM UTC+11, Brent wrote: > > > > On 12/27/2015 5:49 PM, Pierz wrote: > > The argument that the telescope should be built (or not) can only be > > founded on values, not facts. Like JC, I value the progress of > > scientific knowledge highly, and I've neve

Re: Native Hawaiian Religious Imbeciles

2015-12-27 Thread Brent Meeker
On 12/27/2015 5:49 PM, Pierz wrote: The argument that the telescope should be built (or not) can only be founded on values, not facts. Like JC, I value the progress of scientific knowledge highly, and I've never been to Mauna Kea, so I'm naturally in favour of building it. But pointing to the

Re: Native Hawaiian Religious Imbeciles

2015-12-27 Thread Pierz
For my own selfish reasons - I dig deep-space photography and love reading about new astronomical discoveries - I wish the telescope had gone ahead. And when the benefits and competing interests are weighed up I tend to agree the wrong decision was made here. However, I disagree with the simpli

Re: Native Hawaiian Religious Imbeciles

2015-12-27 Thread Brent Meeker
On 12/27/2015 3:56 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Brent Meeker > wrote: On 12/23/2015 1:12 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:31 PM, John Clark mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, Dec 23,

Re: Native Hawaiian Religious Imbeciles

2015-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 12/23/2015 1:12 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:31 PM, John Clark wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 Telmo Menezes < >> te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: >> >> ​ > > ​ >>​ > ​ > and their land is no

Re: Native Hawaiian Religious Imbeciles

2015-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 6:40 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > ​>>> ​ they ​ [the ​ Pirãha tribe ​]​ have absolutely no interest in anything our civilization has to offer. >>> >>> ​>> ​ >>> The ​ >>> Pirãha tribe >>> ​ has a great