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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: Debate
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 19:41:29 EDT
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> Dick Pierce at ...!teddy writes:
> 
> > I have a proposal to make. Instead of casting the heathens of atrology out
> > of the Astronomical temple, let's engage in a cool, rational, scientific
> > debate on the merits or lack thereof of astrological principles. It is
> > only this way that a homeland can be found for the wandering astrologists.
>
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> I don't think this will work.  Astrology is a BELIEF which, by its 
> very nature, is not subject to rational debate. 
> 
> Thomas Aquinas wrote an elegant proof in the thirteenth century that 
> God does not and can not exist.  Has it made any difference since 
> then?  Of course not.  Aquinas even got canonized.
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> 
> Finally, three pleas to keep in mind as you folks continue this 
> debate:  1) Don't jump on other people because they believe in 
> something different than you do.  2) Don't call them names under 
> ANY circumstances.  And 3) be considerate; it feels nicer to everyone.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Harold G. Corwin, Jr.
> uucp: {ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao,charm}!utastro!hgcjr
> arpa: hgcjr@utastro.UTEXAS.ARPA
> mabell: 512-471-7463
> Dept. of Astronomy, RLM 15.308, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1083

Harold hit it right on the head, and was much more eloquent about it
then I was....


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