Subject:      Re: Quit picking on Fishman
From:         David Mayo <mayo@lightlink.com>
Date:         1996/05/15
Message-Id:   <4ndn1t$gp7@light.lightlink.com>
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Newsgroups:   alt.religion.scientology



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On 15 May 1996 09:26:52 GMT, av282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Martin G. V. Hunt)
wrote:

>David Mayo (mayo@lightlink.com) writes:
[...]
>> 
>> I don't want to be "cut slack" for any reason, *especially* because of
>> which side I am on (was on or will be on).  I want my position to stand,
>> fall or be modified on its merits.
>
>You can count on that, David.  I think most people here are not in the
>mood to cut anyone slack at the moment, which may be for the best.

Good.  I think it will have the result of raising the standard and making
this n.g. even more effective

[...]
>> regardless of which side is involved.  My position on this point may be
>> right or it may be wrong.  It is an opinion and as such is just another
>> of
>> my religious beliefs, expressed here so you know where I am coming from.
>
>I agree with this; extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence, as
>I've mentioned in another thread.  I see no reason not to apply this
>science-based thought to opinions and arguments delivered here.
>

Nor do I, with no double-standards.

[...]

>A long-expressed opinion of many people here; we are after *behaviors*,
>not *beliefs*.  Still, discussion of the beliefs takes place, as it
>should.
>
I do not mind that, either.  Both ways.

>Whoever you've been talking to has given you some good advise.

It was good up to here.  Are you now making an unsubstantiated bs opinion
that you cannot back up because it is as devoid of rationality as it is of
fact?

I was and am expressing my own opinions and these are not the result of
advice.

>> I would like to see a new civilization come about.

Even more so.

>
>It is continually evolving all the time.

I know.

>> Rev. David Mayo
>> "Cutting slack could lead to slack cutting."
>
>ttyl,
>martin <cutting slacks could lead to some weird 70s styles>

David Mayo
(a.r.s-Kickin' Kiwi in slack=OFF mode)


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