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To: mrjesse
I didn't have to read 93,000 articles in order to learn about all the other sciences I've dabbled in.

I believe "dabbled" is the operative word here. You obviously want someone to spoon feed you, and it is equally obvious that your response to anything presented will be either "not enough" or "too much -- make it simpler." Educate yourself. Nobody really wants to play games with an adult in a high-chair.

979 posted on 04/18/2008 6:04:32 AM PDT by atlaw
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To: atlaw
I believe "dabbled" is the operative word here. You obviously want someone to spoon feed you, and it is equally obvious that your response to anything presented will be either "not enough" or "too much -- make it simpler." Educate yourself. Nobody really wants to play games with an adult in a high-chair.

Okay, okay, enough empty insults :-)

Seriously, getting an intuitive grasp of other sciences was not as difficult as this. But I digress.

There is at least one valid situation where a person is perfectly justified in complaining about being given all or nothing -- and that is when they are indeed being given all or nothing.

The claim has been made that there are mountains of evidence, that it's plainly clear, or the like.

But I think maybe it's only clear to those who have studied it for hundreds of hours. Why not just say "Here. Jesse, go read this in-depth article and then you'll be able to see the evidence." Is it because I'd have to read a couple hundred in-depth articles? well then just say so! Just tell me that I won't be able to see the evidence without reading thousands of articles, if such is the case.

But after a while of not hearing that I gotta devote my life to it, and after a while of not being directed to one good article that will do it for me, it is natural and proper of me to suspect that nobody knows of these mountains of clear evidence.

How come it has to be 93,000 or nothing? If any one of those would do it, just say so and I'll go pick one!

(I'm no genius to be sure -- but by now I've seen enough to know that if I just pick one you'll say it was the wrong one.)

Thanks,

-Jesse

980 posted on 04/18/2008 6:57:46 PM PDT by mrjesse (Could it be true? Imagine, being forgiven, and having a cause, greater then yourself, to live for!)
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