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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:24:01 GMT, "Jason Gastrich"
<usenetspam1@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Severian wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 05:13:53 GMT, "Jason Gastrich"
>> <usenetspam1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Severian wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 07:34:22 +0000 (UTC), "Jason Gastrich"
>>>> <usenetspam1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snipped to comment on one quote>
>>>>
>>>>> No.  In no way does the jcsm.org main page misrepresent itself or
>>>>> pretend to be any other site.  It is clear from the top of the page
>>>>> that this is a Christian ministry site and not a secular science
>>>>> one.
>>>>>
>>>>> There obviously isn't anything wrong with this.  If there were, I
>>>>> would't do it.
>>>>
>>>> You are so egotistical to assume your own infallibility? That is an
>>>> obvious example of hypocrisy. At least on-line, you come across very
>>>> much like the businessman that hired me one time:
>>>
>>> I never said or implied I was infallible.  I said I believed that
>>> what I was doing was right.
>>
>> You just said:
>>
>>>>> There obviously isn't anything wrong with this.  If there were, I
>>>>> would't do it.
>>
>> Again, for emphasis, you just said:
>>
>>>>> There obviously isn't anything wrong with this.  If there were, I
>>>>> would't do it.
>>
>> IOW, "If there were [anything wrong with this], I wouldn't do it."
>>
>> You asserted your infallibility . Perhaps you meant, "There isn't
>> anything *obviously* wrong with this," but that has a quite different
>> meaning than, "There obviously isn't anything wrong with this."
>>
>> I know you've typed a lot the past few days, so perhaps it was only a
>> misplacement of an adverb.
>
>I'm obviously referring to my perception.

In that last sentence you obviously are, but the sentence, "There
obviously isn't anything wrong with this" implies that everyone's
perception is the same.

>>>> On my first day, he informed me that he was "a good man and a True
>>>> Christian," and that any future disagreements between us would thus
>>>> be obviously my fault.
>>>>
>>>> I did not return.
>>>
>>> This doesn't sound very nice or right.  Sorry for your circumstance.
>>
>> Please don't be! It was a wonderful learning experience. I learned a
>> valuable early lesson about people who are so convinced that they are
>> right that they are unable to discuss anything. I learned about
>> double-standards, hypocrisy and the irrationality of people who
>> proclaim the infallibility of any person, idea, religion or book.
>
>I hope you haven't thought that all Christians are like this employer.  They
>aren't.

Well of course not. I grew up surrounded by Christians of many faiths.
But that experience (and many since, including watching your
prevarications on Usenet) have certainly exposed the
narrow-mindedness, hypocrisy and irrationality inherent in claims of
infallibility 

>I'm glad you learned about hypocrisy and double-standards.  Perhaps you can
>speak to those that put me down for having http://michaelnewdow.com and
>http://talkorigin.org while they support those that have
>http://aboutjasongastrich.org and http://gastrich.org.  Now that's hypocrisy
>and a double-standard.

No, that's a slapfight, a pissing contest, or a fagdance, depending on
which common slang you want to use. It's also simple to discover who
started this particular pissing contest.

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Sev