LawfulGood's Journal: My friend the logistician...

In response to:

Hypocracy, hatred and bigotry

Seeing as you're a born again Christian, I'm fully aware that no amount of evidence can convince you that your religion is based on lies.

If you insist on believing something which cannot be demonstrated, and frankly isn't logical, then that's your right...

even though mine is based on logic, and yours is based on faith...

You think there's a God, even though no evidence exists to support that claim.

You know... you actually have given me some insight. The assumptions you make about me are staggeringly inaccurate. And yet you are in active correspondence with me. Amazing. If you can be so wrong about someone you're actually conversing with, no wonder you're so wrong when dealing with 2000 year old writings.

But I can see that you want to end the conversation, so I'll try to end on a positive note.

I'm glad to learn that we both consider ourselves to be students of logic. You're such a bright guy, I'm sure you've noticed that many people think they know something about logic, but really don't. I was talking to someone just the other day. He kept talking about how he only believed in logic. So I asked him to define modus ponens and modus tollens for me. Can you believe that he couldn't do it! Imagine! There he was going on and on about logic, when he didn't even know the basics. Amazing! Needless to say he didn't know what a categorical syllogism or an analytic proposition was either. Wow. I sure am glad you're not that way. I'm sure you know all about that without even having to look it up. You wouldn't be talking about logic so much unless you really knew your stuff.

Of course, there's no way for me to know either way. Now that you have the terms you could just look them up and I wouldn't know the difference.

But you would... wouldn't you...