Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: \"What'd he say Harry??\" \"What'd he say?\" Message-ID: <815@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 10:46:57 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.815 Posted: Thu Nov 7 10:46:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:37:52 EST References: <1269@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 25 In article <1269@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@squirt.DEC writes: > Mike Huybensz writes (hysterically): > "Even assuming the Bible is inspired by God, we cannot know God's purpose > in giving it to us. Because we cannot understand the purpose, we have no > way of knowing if God intended us to accept/reject/believe/disbelieve the > Bible." > > Even assuming Mike wrote the above, we cannot know Mike's purpose in giving > it to us. Because we cannot understand the purpose, we have no way of > knowing if Mike indended us to accept/reject/believe/disbelieve the message! > > I'm afraid the same applies to any reply we can assume Mike will make! Ooops. This time I can't blame Ken for taking me out of context. I wrote it out of context. I'd just finished an article on maltheism, and my mind (the one we can't understand :-) was in the wrong context for net.origins. That paragraph only makes sense as a demonstration of an undesirable conclusion drawn from an assertion someone else had made in another article. (Yuck! Awful number of prepositions....) Thanks, ever-vigilant watchdog Ken. Keep me honest, careful, and humble. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh