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From: smith@cos.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame
Subject: Re: The flat earth
Message-ID: <590@cos.COM>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 12:37:22 EST
Article-I.D.: cos.590
Posted: Thu Dec  3 12:37:22 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 20:08:13 EST
References: <9578@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: smith@cos.UUCP (Steve Smith)
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Keywords: platygaeanism,creationism,astroloy
Xref: hoptoad talk.religion.newage:1978 alt.flame:852

In article <9578@shemp.UCLA.EDU> troly@CS.UCLA.EDU (Bret Jolly) writes:

[Flat Earth stuff]

This article has found its ideal home in alt.flame.  It contains no
facts, no experimental results, no logical arguments.  It DOES contain
innuendos, delusions of persecution, claims of Divine Right, and all the
other Good Stuff that we've come to expect here.

The only purposes that I can find for this entire point of view are 

1.  Mr. Jolly has been bitten with the bug that "if I can come up with a
    logical argument, then it must be right".  Note that this is the
    same thing that he is complaining about.

2.  Mr. Jolly likes to start arguments, and doesn't really care what
    they're about.

I suspect the second.  -- 
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