Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!psuvax1!burdvax!sjuvax!iannucci 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 Article-I.D.: sjuvax.919 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. Lines: 34 [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 =============================================================================