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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'>From that previous post: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'>“These
assertions are generally recognizable by the practical impossibility of being
neither unequivocally confirmable nor <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>falsifiable</span></b>…”
</span></font></i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>(em. mine)<i><span style='font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Mr. Fox,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am pleased to see your admission that my
religious beliefs are not “falsifiable”. You have given me more
that your atheistic cohorts, and for that I thank you. And since my beliefs are
not falsifiable, why reject them so readily? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'>“When
searching for "the truth" it may be useful to understand that some
statements are neither true nor false. For example: <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'>‘The
square root of blue recrystalizes sodomy.’”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please point out one of my statements that
is equivalent to that. Perhaps I could have stated my case more plainly, but I
do not recall making such a silly statement.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'> “Ron,
I hope you are a sincere person who wishes to better the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sometimes I am and I do, and sometimes I
am a selfish s.o.b. Thank you, Jesus for obeying and suffering on my behalf for
all my imperfections.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'>“you
might consider shifting the focus of your faith and the use of your talents
from proselytization to working directly, non-judgmentally, and
non-theologically to alleviate some of the obvious sufferings in the world --
hunger, disease, illiteracy, war, religious strife, crime, social disorganization,
etc.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please try and look at it from my point of
view, Mr. Fox. According to the scriptures, this suffering is all caused by mankind’s
war with God. We can try our best to alleviate all the suffering in the world,
but those efforts apart from the reconciliation of mankind with their Creator
would be akin to putting a band-aid on cancer. My religious convictions tell me
to do both.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-style:italic'>Matthew
4:4 But He [Jesus] answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE
ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'"<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></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'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ron Smith<o:p></o:p></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>Art Deco<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 10, 2005
10:49 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Vision 2020<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Gary
Larson on one of today's headlines</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Ron,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>As expected, you only reassert your position, without giving any
verifiable evidence to support it. C. S. Pierce in his essay "The
Fixation of Belief" called such ways of fixing belief the Method of
Tenacity. The users of such methods have contributed little or nothing,
save acting as a bad example, to the advancement of knowledge or to the
alleviation of the causes of suffering of humankind.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Rather than argue about first principles, Occam's Razor, etc. I
recycle the post below, slightly altered. Consider the last paragraphs in
the light of the discussion of the quotes from <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Mark</font></i></em> (also appended) in a recent thread
on V 2020.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>__________________________________</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>When searching for "the truth" it may be useful to understand
that some statements are neither true nor false. For example:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>"The square root of blue recrystalizes sodomy."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Just because words can be strung together in an
apparently syntactically correct sentence doesn't mean the sentence has a
comprehensible, literal, testable meaning.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>In your quest for "the truth" you might watch out
for these kind of assertions. Religion, philosophy, politics,
etc. are rife with such statements. These assertions are
generally recognizable by the practical impossibility of being neither
unequivocally confirmable nor falsifiable or for the establishment of any
significant probability of thier truth. The latter two cases is often
especially the case.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A parable derived from an example written by an apostate
Catholic disciple of Wittgenstein intended to illustrate the point of
Occam's Razor may be helpful as an illustration to you. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Neighbors A & B were having an over-the-back-fence discussion:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: I heard you have a new kind of powerful watchdog
or something.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: Yes, it is called the Odg.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: What does it do?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: It watches over us continually and protects us and
our property from harm.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: I haven't seen anything. Where is it?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: The Odg is invisible.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: I have heard any barking or anything.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: The Odg makes no sound.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: You don't have a fence. How do you keep the
Odg in?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: The Odg stays with us always. It is the
loving nature of the Odg to do so.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: Your lawn is immaculate. I don't see any Odg
droppings at all.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: The Odg never eats. Consequently, it makes
no droppings. It doesn't slobber or have bad breath either.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: Tell me again what it does.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: It watches over us and protects us from all
harms. It requires only unquestioning belief on our part in return.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>A: But wasn't your home robbed of everything of
value, weren't you badly beaten up, and wasn't your wife taken for
and enjoyed a month-long sexual romp by a motorcycle gang a few months ago?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>B: Yes, but it must of been good for us, else the Odg
would not have let it happen. </span></font><font size=4 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>[</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Also, consider the Tsunami in this context</span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>.]</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Ron, I hope you are a sincere person who wishes to better the
world. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>After understanding the above parable and its ramifications, perhaps
you might consider shifting the focus of your faith and the use of your talents
from proselytization to working directly, non-judgmentally, and
non-theologically to alleviate some of the obvious sufferings in the world --
hunger, disease, illiteracy, war, religious strife, crime, social disorganization,
etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>When I lived in Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I meet a number of
missionaries and other once very religious people of various faiths who came to
Africa originally to spread their religious beliefs. [Though a
nonbeliever, I was a volunteer distribution point for Catholic Relief
Services.]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>The pursuit of the alleviation of suffering and the physical
improvement of the general conditions of life for many of these
one-time fervently religious people soon became the meaning of and center for
their existence. Religious beliefs, if not abandoned completely for many
of these people, became a very less important part of their lives. Their
faiths, like that of Albert Schweitzer's were greatly altered. I know
because I worked with and enjoyed several of these people. They openly
and unabashedly talked about their spiritual transformation from an impotent
pseudo-oracle to a foe of suffering and unattained aspirations. They
talked about their determination to help those less fortunate than
themselves in a multitude of non-spiritual, but very welcome ways.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Many formerly very religious persons believed that in the overall
scheme of the universe as they came to see it, preventing glaucoma or
teaching Africans to farm productively enriched humankind a great
deal more than such self-serving activities like building churches,
making doubtful converts, or singing hymns. Again, in this
context, I refer you to the passage from <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Mark</font></i></em>
below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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13.5pt'><br>
Wayne<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>Art Deco (Wayne Fox)<br>
<a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>_____________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Matthew 25:31 - 46 (YLT) </span></font></b><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left"></strong><sup><font
size=2 color=black face=Default><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;
color:black'>31</span></font></sup><font color=red face=Default><span
style='font-family:Default;color:red'>‘And whenever the Son of Man may
come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon
a throne of his glory; </span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>32</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>and gathered
together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from
one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats, </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left"></X><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left">
<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>33</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>and he shall
set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.</span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left"></X><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left">
<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>34</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>‘Then
shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my
Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation
of the world; </span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left"></X><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left">
<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>35</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>for I did
hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a
stranger, and ye received me; </span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left"></X><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left">
<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>36</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>naked, and
ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye
came unto me.</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left"></X><X style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tabstops: 19px" align="left">
<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>37</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>‘Then
shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering,
and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink? </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>38</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>and when did
we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around? </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>39</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>and when did
we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee?</span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>40</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>‘And
the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>it</span></i> to one of these my brethren—the
least—to me ye did <i><span style='font-style:italic'>it</span></i>.</span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>41</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>Then shall
he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire,
the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>42</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>for I did
hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>43</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>a stranger I
was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in
prison, and ye did not look after me.</span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>44</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>‘Then
shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or
thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not
minister to thee?</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>45</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>‘Then
shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>it</span></i> not to one of these, the least, ye did <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>it</span></i> not to me. </span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><sup><font size=2 color=black face=Default><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Default;color:black'>46</span></font></sup><font
color=red face=Default><span style='font-family:Default;color:red'>And these
shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.’</span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'></X> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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