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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear Ted:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please don’t put words into my
mouth. Dullards is not a word that I would use to describe any of the
participants in the current debate and that includes both those I agree with
and those with whom I disagree.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In my humble opinion, I would like to see
Vision2020 once again be Vision2020 rather than Division2020. If we try
harder I think we can all find things that we agree upon, things that we can
make happen that would be good for the City of Moscow and it’s suburbs.
I was rather hoping that we could move towards that goal than continuing to
debate those items upon which agreement is almost certainly not going to happen
until after our deaths.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am also completely certain that my
intellect is far from superior to many of those involved in the debate. In
fact my intellect is so far from being superior that I have even been known to
outsmart myself. An example is my futile plea to find an area upon which
we can, at the minimum, discuss and debate each other with a chance of finding
common ground. As it turns out, all I have done is to alienate both sides
of the debate.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As for my belief or is it non-belief in a
supreme being. I have absolutely no idea. I live my life to the
best of my ability making those moral decisions based upon my own personal set
of values that, I hope, mature at least some proportional rate to my own maturity.
In this way I am just like everyone else on the site, rather they will admit to
or not. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Mia Culpa</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Brad Neuman</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Tbertruss@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 30, 2004
9:46 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] The Superior
Intellects Who Silence Discussion </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><br>
Joan, Brad et. al.<br>
<br>
That statement that this is your "final word" on the subject of the
Bible and the divinity of <br>
Christ will require a long term commitment that you may find hard to fulfill.<br>
<br>
Brad complained about dullards (not his wording) who pretend to know the nature
of a Supreme Being, but I assure you, this subject will continue to appear on
V2020 for years to come, unless the list is moderated or canceled.<br>
<br>
The V2020 posts that annoy me the most are the ones by people who try to
silence discussion of a particular subject.<br>
<br>
I recall one subject on V2020 that I tried to silence: football. How
cruel! The universe of a football devotee would collapse without
football. <br>
<br>
I hope the V2020 list is flooded with fundamentalists who cannot program their
VCRs arguing for the divinity of Christ!<br>
<br>
Ted Moffett</span></font></p>
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