From: bod on
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

"Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message
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> 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

"bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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

"Norman Wells" <stibbons(a)unseen.ac.am> wrote in message
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> 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
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