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Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: On nil qua false [was: Re: On conditionals] References: <3215299538573186@naggum.net> <9tgcpc$3ce$1@news.gte.com> <3215360195434986@naggum.net> <3BFC2BC7.BDD2CEF0@nyc.rr.com> <3BFC3F7F.E31CBAF0@nyc.rr.com> <3BFC6AB7.4B7B99B9@nyc.rr.com> <3BFC92C8.FE1BCD84@nyc.rr.com> <3215551923712524@naggum.net> <87y9ksguai.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> <3215865367762047@naggum.net> <87vgfwf5jj.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> <3215910318983115@naggum.net> <878zcrc59s.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215965920426322@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 81 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:52:03 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1006977123 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:52:03 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:52:03 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21239 * Andreas Bogk | Because that's the association I have when reading your arguments. Precisely. This is your problem, and you should just go fix it. Nobody is so fucking stupid as to regard a standard as "gospel". Grow a clue. | The "you must believe in it, because it was written by God^Wpeople much | smarter than you" argument. Where is the "believe in" part outside or your mind? Just because you have a personal problem with your incredibly low reading comprehension and an overactive imagination that fills in the blanks when you do not understand what you read, does not give you the right to assume that you reach valid conclusions. In fact, it is typical of inferior thinking skills that you _do_ think you can fill in the blanks and reach any goddamn conclusion you want. Rational people do not lie about their observations in order to arrive at their pre-conceived conclusions. | The "it's not Lisp unless it is Common Lisp, and everybody deviating from | Common Lisp is a heretic, even if he doesn't claim Nobody says this, either, you dimwit. Notice how you introduce all the religious terms -- because that is _your_ language. > What kind of short-circuiting of your thinking processes are you > satisfied with once you can label someone "religious"? | I can stop trying to have a rational argument with them about the subject | of their belief. But because _you_ make up your mind that somebody is religious, and you are the first to relinquish rational argument, _you_ are in fact the only irrational and religious person around. You will never understand this, any more than most criminals accept that they are guilty. | I'm not lacking evidence, there's enough in your postings. Only for the association in _your_ mind. That has nothing at all to do with me. For all your fascination with logic, you sure do not know how to arrive at valid premises. When you accuse me of something when in fact you are only accusing me of causing associations in a deranged and religious mind, it is important to point out that every monster you see is your own creation. Religious people, especially those who have turned their back to religion for the wrong reasons and who have a huge personal authority problem as a result, tend to assume that _all_ authorities are religious in nature, or want to be. This happens only to stupid people who are too goddamn slowwitted to figure out what they really object to. Because they can label everything they do not like "religious" after this, they will also never mature or develop beyond this infantile rejection of authority. In short, mentally underdeveloped and rebellious children. | If I sound like a religious zealot to you (which of course is just a | pattern in *your* brain), and if you think religious discussions are | pointless, stop listening to me. A person who talks about "gospel" is ipso facto a religious zealot. | I'm only reporting my impressions, honestly and faithfully. My _impression_ of you is that you are probably the stupidest person to come visit us in several months. What value does this impression have? Should I share it with anyone? I am trying to cause you, the stupidest person around, to revv up your dysfunctional brain and stop accusing people of your own mental problems that cause you to think anybody but you think in terms of religion and gospel. This is _your_ problem, and only _you_ can solve it. Here is how: Figure out that people who look religious to _you_, are in fact _not_. Then read my signature and be enlightened, or at least start to think. | If this annoys you, maybe you should search the reason on your side. Of course, it is also Common Lisp's fault that you have problems with it. Dylan seems to breed clueless idiots faster than applications. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.