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To: mlc9852
Why do you assume I'm ignorant because I refuse to accept that humans descended from some other life form? Should I assume you're ignorant because you do believe that?

No, I assume you're ignorant because you refuse to acknowledge facts that don't fit your preconceived notions. You ignore knowledge that you don't like because it doesn't support your chosen worldview. That's willful ignorance in the face of potential learning.

Words mean things, don't they? Or are those "in the mind of the beholder" as well? You already admitted that you don't believe in facts, perhaps you don't believe in words either?

161 posted on 07/22/2005 11:36:53 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

You apparently choose to believe facts as you interpret them and that's your right. Many, many people don't believe we descended from anything other than humans. Why does that bother you so?


162 posted on 07/22/2005 11:38:29 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: highball
Words mean things, don't they?

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - - that's all.'

193 posted on 07/22/2005 12:16:20 PM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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