----- Original Message -----
From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
> I think this conversation originated with Jason Joel Thompson
contradicting
> Eliezer's statement:
> "There is only one reality" -- which disagreement I took for obstinance,
because
> Eli's statement seems to me as self-evident as the statement that 2 + 2 =
4.
> I mean, of course someone could argue that 2 + 2 = 5 (for very large
values of
> 2). But to spend more than a few sentences voicing disagreement seems
> extravagant if not confrontational.
That might explain why you disengaged my argument so quickly.
Unfortunate, because I suspect that even in my 'extravagant obstinancy,'
there might have been a glimmer or two of genuine thinking therein.
Hey, stranger things have happened.
I'm not exactly trying to argue that black is white here. You might be
aware that despite your beliefs on this matter, there are lots of rational
people out there who have yet to throw their chips into the pot on this one.
I don't think it's entirely fair to deride my questioning of the nature of
reality as pure confrontation. The issue is -somewhat- more contested than
the basic mathematical truths.
--::jason.joel.thompson:: ::founder::
www.wildghost.com
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