[MD] Respect

[Ian Glendinning]

4th mail today ... the topic was Respect (not the existence of God)

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:41 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Please explain how what I wrote is off topic, Ian?
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [MD] Respect
>
> Hijacking a thread by changing the subject is hardly respect, Ron ?
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:30 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> Ian had submitted:
>>
>>
>> From yesterday's BBC R4 In Our Time - on the ontological argument for god.
>>
>> QUOTE
>> The Ontological Argument is quite a way down the list of subjects with
>> which I would have thought I would get absorbed. But I did. The notion
>> of a medieval Benedictine monk from Italy, via France, becoming
>> Archbishop of Canterbury and sitting down to compose through logic
>> alone a proof for the existence of God, and both proving it to the
>> satisfaction of some people and not proving it to the satisfaction of
>> others, was extremely seductive. ...
>>
>> The thing about other worlds of knowledge is that the more you examine
>> them and the more you get to know them, the more respect you have for
>> them. It doesn't matter very much whether they seem to be way off-key
>> when compared with "modern" knowledge or information.
>> UNQUOTE
>>
>> [Ron comments]
>> I noticed an article that modern science is close to ruling out the existence
>> of God. I thought, what a stupid article! What a loaded comment!
>>
>> It all depends on what you mean by the term "God"
>>
>> Through examination and rendering other worlds of knowledge more
>> intelligible, we can better grasp it's meaning, it's value.
>>
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