Re: virus: Re: Social Metaphysics

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:25:04 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, David McFadzean wrote:

> At 01:14 AM 9/21/97 -0700, Tadeusz Niwinski wrote:
> >Good story. As you say, he explained it with "God works in mysterious
> >ways". Or "who am I to know?" Once we assume supernatural it is quite
> >consistent to say so.
>
> This seems to indicate that adding "the supernatural exists" to your
> list of axioms destroys the credibility of one's arguments just as
> assuredly as adding "A and ~A", right?

Hate to interrupt while the two of you play off one another, but "why?"

David, you said that some explanations were that God(tm) doesn't stop bad
things from happening to good people or "the rain falls on the just and
unjust". And then the hacks say, "God works in mysterious ways".

Did you chose the hacks' explanation for any reason other than to use it
as a strawman, Tad? David?

-Prof. Tim