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From: dant@tekla.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque;1893;92-789;LP=A;60aC)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flat Earth
Keywords: platygaeanism, creationism, astrology
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Date: 15 Dec 87 06:49:47 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@tekla.UUCP (Dan Tilque)
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Organization: Church of Christ, Secular Humanist
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Bret Jolly makes an interesting argument for platypism, the theory that all
crackpots posting to the net have flat heads.  Actually that's not true, some
have pointed heads.

>Now for the part you alt.flamers have been waiting for!  It should be clear
>that my presentation of platygaeanism is *much* more cogent and intelligent
>than anything creationists or astrologers have been able to come up with.
>DO NOT LUMP PLATYGAEANISM IN WITH ASTROLOGY OR CREATIONISM. IT MAKES MUCH
>MORE SENSE. Thanx

At least 10 times as much sense.  Of course, 10 * 0 = 0. 

You remind me of an Arts major at school who tried to convice me that
classical Newtonian mechanics was no longer valid because it had been
superceded by Special Relativity.  My reply was that he better be careful
the next time he drove his car; the engineers who designed it didn't make
any relativistic corrections in their calculations.

There is one difference between his ideas and yours; he was technically
correct.

---
Dan Tilque
dant@tekla.tek.com  or dant@tekla.UUCP

P.S. Be careful on your next plane trip; the navigator is probably a
round-earther and you'll probably land in Poughkeepsie instead of
Pocatello.