[lit-ideas] Re: faith

  • From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:30:48 -0400

At 07:51 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
>Paul Stone wrote:
>
>"You call my question 'nonsense'? That's rather insulting."
>
>If you are going to get your knickers in a knot, at least get it right.
>What I said was that your question was nonsensical.

What's the difference between nonsense and nonsensical?
Nonsensical? NOT nonsense? So if something is "ironic", that's different 
from calling it "ironical"?

>And it is.  You are asking for a logical relation to an existential state.

Yeah. Right on man.

>   But I suspect the point of all this handwaving is not understanding but 
> venting, so carry on.

I'm not waving my hands. And I'm too busy to carry on. I know I'll never 
get a satisfactory answer to my question. Brian is right, my standards are 
just too damned high.

paujl

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Paul Stone
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Leamington, ON. Canada


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