From: dart@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dartanyan the Witchling)
Newsgroups: alt.satanism
Subject: Re: xians here
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:27:26 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Aug3.163204.7222@njitgw.njit.edu> rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu (Ray Rich) writes:
>In article <1992Jul31.030741.3103@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> locklin@henry.ece.cmu.edu (Scott Locklin) writes:

	He might not have written this.  Someone else could have.

>>
>>They try to save the soul, we try to save the mind... Its like trying to
>>convince an astrologer in sumeria that the sun is the center of our solar-
>>system and the earth is a ball hurtling through the void...

	It might not be.

>>
>>Do you realize that lots of these born-again xtians believe that the earth was
>>created 6000 years ago??!! I had an Electrical engineering (student) roomie

	It might have been.  He might not have been an engineering student.

>>who was born-again actually believes this!!! This is an "educated" guy!!!

	He might not have been born again.  He might not believe it.
	He might not be educated.

>>The depth of their ignorance astounds me...

	They might not be ignorant.

>>
>>"the world is in a nightmare from which it is desperately trying to awaken"-
>>Siddhartha (sp?) buddah

	The world might not be a nightmare.  Or it might not be trying to awak-
en.  Or both.
	Siddhartha Buddha might not really have said thet.

>>
>>-Scott

	That might not be his name.

>	Yep, I believe it.  That and other myths espoused by the New Jersey
>Institute of Technology's christian Fellowship.  They also believe that at

	They might not really espouse them.  It could be a CIA cover.  Or KGB,
as the CIS might really be still the USSR, secretly.

>one time (presumably prior to the great flood but post-eden), all life that had ever existed on earth, including dinosaurs, did so simultaneously.  This means  that man, dogs, elephants, fish, dinosaurs, and all other terran life forms
>co-existed in the same time period.  You don't have to know much paleontology
>or biology to realize this is absurd.

	They might have.  I might need to know a lot of paleontology to know
that is absurd.  Absurdity might have its merits.

>	Their "proof" of this is some geological data which actually just
>throws doubt on carbon dating and strata theory.  It's hard to believe that
>students at an engineering school would doubt science backed by research and
>experimentation for a belief backed by faith.

	Carbon Dating may not work.  Strata Theory might not work either.  They
might have other, secret proof, that you don't know about and never will.
	Consider, if you prove something, and don't want it disproven, and
you quite simply don't tell anyone about it, no one can disprove it unless some
one else proves it the same way, goes public with it and it gets disproven.

>
>					Boggles the mind,

	It might only boggle this person's mind.
	Or it might boggle mine.  i am not sure.

>						Raymond H. Rich
>
>Pass the Kool-Aid, Reverend Jim!
	
	Don't.  I spiked it.  300 mikes.  Pay me and you can have a drink.

		HONEST! I really mean all this.  Monkeys really MIGHT fly out 
my butt.  
	Consider.  Eris could have started the universe 8 minutes ago, complete
with history, memories, and all the rest.  If she exists, that is.
	Which she might.
	Although it woud be more likely to have been 5.

	If, however, the xtian beliefs are all true:
		1) I want to see them figure THAT out.  That is, if they
are ALL true.
		2) I really hope they aren't, because if they are i am 
going to be burned for eternity by an asshole of a all-powerful deity.  Just
because i had the audacity to say "why" and "what if?"

	Luckily, the chances don't seem any higher than the other ideas.  And
there are a LOT of other ideas.  Most of the others do not have GOD figures
that will be nasty to me for allowing myself to be me.

			>;)