From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 9 14: 5:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9337F37B400; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from directvinternet.com (dsl-65-185-140-165.telocity.com [65.185.140.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1193043E4A; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from Tolstoy.home.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by directvinternet.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g89L57Gd055863; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from localhost (nwestfal@localhost) by Tolstoy.home.lan (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g89L566i055860; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:05:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Tolstoy.home.lan: nwestfal owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:05:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" X-X-Sender: nwestfal@Tolstoy.home.lan To: Dave Hayes Cc: Terry Lambert , Juli Mallett , Joshua Lee , Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-Reply-To: <200209092015.g89KF0133976@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> Message-ID: <20020909140246.L1838-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Dave Hayes wrote: > Terry Lambert writes: > > Dave Hayes wrote: > >> What is this assumption that, if I say something in a debate, I am > >> trying to convince people of it? Can't we just be arguing to express > >> our worldview? > > Not really, no. 8-). > > Thus spake Terry Lambert: > > "For yea, there must be One True and Right worldview, and any statement > of one's worldview is trying to convince others that one's worldview > belongs in the One True and Right worldview, amen." > > Did you claim to ever study Zen? =) Ah, but what is the claim that there is no One True Right worldview, but a claim that the only One True Right worldview is the one which denies that there is One True Right worldview? 8-) Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message