>> Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
> You know, I collect these badges you get at conferences, and when I > have moments of ontological uncertainty, I just have a look at them.
I see from one of mine that I was a Senior Steward at the Royal Welsh Show in 1988. (Wonderful to learn, by the way, that Lancelot Hogben has risen from the Underworld.)
> Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
Just because someone quoted you?
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
> Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
Hmmm.
OK:
1. I am real.
2.:
<Quote> "Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain." </quote>
> >> Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
> > You know, I collect these badges you get at conferences, and when I > > have moments of ontological uncertainty, I just have a look at them.
> I see from one of mine that I was a Senior Steward at the Royal Welsh > Show in 1988. (Wonderful to learn, by the way, that Lancelot Hogben has > risen from the Underworld.)
>>> Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
>> You know, I collect these badges you get at conferences, and when I have >> moments of ontological uncertainty, I just have a look at them.
>Careful. My Field Museum ID badge used to tell me my name was Josh. >Fortunately I had enough other badges to convince me otherwise.
After reading Wilkins's absurd quote which makes no attempt to get his facts straight about Christian theology is there anyone who still thinks Wilkins is an agnostic?
Hall Monitor Harshman has the intellectual honesty to at least hide his bias rather than be disingenuous about it.
>>>> Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
>>> You know, I collect these badges you get at conferences, and when I have >>> moments of ontological uncertainty, I just have a look at them.
>> Careful. My Field Museum ID badge used to tell me my name was Josh. >> Fortunately I had enough other badges to convince me otherwise.
> After reading Wilkins's absurd quote which makes no attempt to get his > facts straight about Christian theology is there anyone who still > thinks Wilkins is an agnostic?
> Hall Monitor Harshman has the intellectual honesty to at least hide > his bias rather than be disingenuous about it.
Did that make any sense at all? Hiding your bias is intellectually honest?
And I see nothing in Wilkins' quote that would preclude his being an agnostic, or even a Christian.
> > Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
> Just because someone quoted you?
Not just anyone. A *real person.
> "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing > would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And > contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it > would. You see?"
> > "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing > > would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And > > contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it > > would. You see?"
On Nov 4, 4:07 pm, T Pagano <not.va...@address.net> wrote:
> After reading Wilkins's absurd quote which makes no attempt to get his > facts straight about Christian theology is there anyone who still > thinks Wilkins is an agnostic?
this, asked by a guy who called the bishops of his own church 'heretics' because they don't agree with his fundamentalism.
> Hall Monitor Harshman has the intellectual honesty to at least hide > his bias rather than be disingenuous about it.
the tragicomedy of creationism finds its shakespeare in pagano. which is like being the tallest building in oshkosh.
> On Nov 4, 4:07 pm, T Pagano <not.va...@address.net> wrote:
> > After reading Wilkins's absurd quote which makes no attempt to get his > > facts straight about Christian theology is there anyone who still > > thinks Wilkins is an agnostic?
> this, asked by a guy who called the bishops of his own church > 'heretics' because they don't agree with his fundamentalism.
> > Hall Monitor Harshman has the intellectual honesty to at least hide > > his bias rather than be disingenuous about it.
> the tragicomedy of creationism finds its shakespeare in pagano. which > is like being the tallest building in oshkosh.
More like the tallest building in Slapout, Okalhoma.
>> >> > Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
>> >> You know, I collect these badges you get at conferences, and when >> >> I have moments of ontological uncertainty, I just have a look at >> >> them.
> >>> Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
> >> You know, I collect these badges you get at conferences, and when I have > >> moments of ontological uncertainty, I just have a look at them.
> >Careful. My Field Museum ID badge used to tell me my name was Josh. > >Fortunately I had enough other badges to convince me otherwise.
> After reading Wilkins's absurd quote which makes no attempt to get his > facts straight about Christian theology is there anyone who still > thinks Wilkins is an agnostic?
1. I am not agnostic about Christianity. It is simply false as it is proposed by the churches, in my view. On that matter, I am an atheist. I have always said this, by the way, Tony.
2. But on what I have called, many times, empirically inoculated deities, whose existence requires no contrary to fact claims, I am agnostic. I have also said this before.
Since you no doubt have trouble thinking of anyone who doesn't agree with absolutely everything that you happen to believe as anything but an atheist, I am happy to find myself int he company of Darwin, Asa Gray, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein and the other "atheists"...
> >> >> > Ergo, *I* am a real person. Whew. That's good to know...
> >> >> You know, I collect these badges you get at conferences, and when > >> >> I have moments of ontological uncertainty, I just have a look at > >> >> them.
> >> > Me too. But none of them say "John Wilkins".
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