Frankly, that latest tidbit by Don Moore struck me as rather funny.
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Isaac Asimov
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in
telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after
death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst
out "Don't you believe in anything?"
Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement,
and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how
wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous
something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
― Isaac Asimov
On 10/18/2018 12:45 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I have just written an off list email to Mustafa, requesting him to take the
Blind Democracy list off his distribution list and to send his emails to us
directly. In that way, if any of us choose to respond to his emails, our
responses won't go to a lot of people whom we don't know are receiving them.
And we will them be protected from receiving some very unpleasant emails
like the one that Don Moore recently sent out. I don't want to be on other
discussion lists. That's why I haven't joined them. So I don't want to be
inadvertently dragged into them. I realize that some of you enjoy debating,
and it doesn't matter to you, with whom you debate. But please be sensitive
to the fact that not everyone feels the same way as you do.
Miriam
