[ExI] Tolerance

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 00:57:06 UTC 2009


2009/12/9 Post Futurist <p0stfuturist at yahoo.com>
>
> Actually, I accept possible placebo effects of Santa, astrology, crystals, etc.
> In fact that might be the entire point.
>
> > You probably wouldn't put up this argument in defence of other sorts
> > of nonsense, such as a belief in Santa Claus, or astrology, or the
> > power of crystals to heal disease, or any number of things which you
> > would dismiss as just obviously crap. Why should religious nonsense
> > get special consideration?

Sometimes it is appropriate to tell or even believe lies, but in
general the truth is better.


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Stathis Papaioannou



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