From: bod on 2 Jul 2010 11:00 David wrote: > "Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message > news:FimXn.99673$NW.51767(a)hurricane... >> Don't you think a belief in fairies is a pretty naive and foolish view for >> a grown man to hold? >> > > I know a few! > > Grown men or fairies? Bod
From: Brimstone on 2 Jul 2010 11:11 "Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message news:FimXn.99673$NW.51767(a)hurricane... > Brimstone wrote: >> "Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message >> news:vv6Xn.86515$x15.34714(a)hurricane... >>> Brimstone wrote: >>>> "Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message >>>> news:6m1Xn.110852$aS3.9251(a)hurricane... >>>> >>>>> You stick if you like with your view that water can have a memory, >>>>> and that fairies may exist. What do I care if it makes you >>>>> ridiculous? >>>> Someone who tries to deny the existence of something when no one >>>> knows one way or the other is the most ridiculous of all. "Closed >>>> mind" is the usual term I believe. >>> >>> Do you think fairies exist then? >>> >>> Or can you rule the possibility out completely? >>> >> In the absence of any evidence either way, I'm ruling the possibility >> of fairies neither in nor out. > > A possibility either exists or it doesn't. You cannot rule a possibility > neither in nor out. > > Since you have not categorically denied that fairies exist, despite being > asked, it follows you think that they may exist. A willingness to accept the possibility of fairies is not the same as believing in fairies. > > Don't you think a belief in fairies is a pretty naive and foolish view for > a grown man to hold? > On what basis do you make that assumption?
From: Brimstone on 2 Jul 2010 11:12 "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:896d8nFrufU1(a)mid.individual.net... > David wrote: >> "Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message >> news:FimXn.99673$NW.51767(a)hurricane... >>> Don't you think a belief in fairies is a pretty naive and foolish view >>> for a grown man to hold? >> >> I know a few! > > Grown men or fairies? > Perhaps some of the grown men he knows are fairies!
From: Brimstone on 2 Jul 2010 11:14 "Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message news:QnmXn.99680$NW.14569(a)hurricane... > Cynic wrote: > >> I do not pretend to understand the entirity of the claims made by >> homeopathy > > No, no-one can. > > But you could if there was any scientific proof, which is the reason > science exists. Does science know everything there is to know? > It's a shame homeopaths never bother with it. > Perhaps scientists have yet to find out how it works?
From: bod on 2 Jul 2010 11:36
Brimstone wrote: > > "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:896d8nFrufU1(a)mid.individual.net... >> David wrote: >>> "Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message >>> news:FimXn.99673$NW.51767(a)hurricane... >>>> Don't you think a belief in fairies is a pretty naive and foolish >>>> view for a grown man to hold? >>> >>> I know a few! >> >> Grown men or fairies? >> > Perhaps some of the grown men he knows are fairies! > > :) Bod |