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From: iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (iannucci)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: why does SHE believe
Message-ID: <919@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 08:03:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 08:03:04 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 05:02:25 EST
Reply-To: iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (iannucci)
Organization: St. Josephs University, Phila. PA.
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[choke on it, bug ..]

>I assume that you are Catholic. Now a Catholic studying at a Jesuit university
>should know better than to post such an article.
>That article was an embarrasment to the Church.
>     
>Please post a further explanation of your article.     [ANON]

            This was your mistake.  I am not a Catholic and never have been.
Nor do I belong to any other religion.  Don't you think it's possible that an
unbeliever(atheist? maybe) can attend a Catholic university and be perfectly
happy?

>> Then what WAS the experience, and how can you defend yourself against
>> a charge that what you encountered was not, in fact, a transcendent
>> Otherness, but only a projection of your mind?   [IANNUCCI]
 
> There's no obligation to defend one's perceptions against "charges".  It's
> simply that the less complex explanation that it's a phenomenon INTERNAL
> to the mind/brain (esp. given that the mind/brain is known to impose
> preconceived patterns on such events) has been shirked in favor of a more
> presumptive one.  Instead of a "charge", a question is asked:  "On what
> basis?  Why?"    [ROSEN]


     Touche'. But this net hasn't seen the last of me!  :-)

-- 
David J. Iannucci (the dirty vicar)                   St. Joseph's University
{allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!iannucci             Philadelphia

"A witty saying proves nothing. "                                  --Voltaire
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