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Greetings:<br><br>
If the Princess really is Doug Jones, then allow me to quote from the
Trinity debate that I had with him:<br><br>
"Most of Nick Gier’s objections are just impositions of his own
Enlightenment categories. His distinction between rhetoric and substance,
his evaluation of historical and biblical evidence, his use of logic as
if it were some neutral ahistorical norm, and his most recent invocations
of “intelligibility” against the Trinity all set up his personal judgment
as the supreme court of the universe – a typical Enlightenment
prejudice." See full debate at
<a href="http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/trinity.htm" eudora="autourl">www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/trinity.htm</a>.<br><br>
No difference between rhetoric and substance? That sounds like
French deconstruction, which has no respect for reasoning at all.
If Enlightenment standards of rational debate are invalid, then no one
can make any progress in a debate.<br><br>
If the Princess is not Doug Jones does she as a Kirker agree with Doug
Wilson's right hand man? <br><br>
Nick Gier<br>
Amazing. Ire? The only thing I feel is sadness for your sake, Keely, that
<br>
you are only capable of such jaundiced reading. I've been posting nothing
<br>
but reasoning, yet you say there is no reasoning, even as you give no
reason <br>
except to say that "God's Spirit" has revealed something to
you, and <br>
therefore we're all supposed to just accept that. Have you forgotten
about <br>
the injunction to "be ready always to give an answer to every man
that <br>
asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
<br>
having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of
<br>
evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation
in <br>
Christ"?<br><br>
-- Princess Sushitushi<br>
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<font size=2>"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the
application of it to human affairs."<br>
--Ralph Waldo Emerson<br><br>
"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings
who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."<br>
--Mohandas Gandhi<br><br>
"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot
be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each
part by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on
the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our
intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science,
religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its
various parts." --Ma</font><font size=1>x Planck<br><br>
</font>Nicholas F. Gier<br>
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho<br>
1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID 83843<br>
<a href="http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm" eudora="autourl">http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm</a><br>
208-882-9212/FAX 885-8950<br>
President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO<br>
<a href="http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/ift.htm" eudora="autourl">http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/ift.htm</a><br><br>
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