Re: CHAT: SWP anecdotes (was: RE: (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida)

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:58:05PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, And Rosta wrote:
>
> > David Bell:
> > > early '60s.  Ah youth!
>
> And last Tuesday, perhaps for the first time ever, the verb "bogart"
> appeared (in a non-meta context) in the _New York Times_.  Ah, youth.
What was the context?

> But suppose a t.r. took over the country and decided to purge former
> non-members?
>
> This is like Smullyan's rejoinder to Pascal's wager ("Bet on God, for if
> you win, you win everything, and if you lose, you lose nothing"), namely
> "Isn't it possible that the real God is a scientific type who has little
> patience with people who believe things without evidence?"
Ah! I'm glad to finally have a name to put with that idea (which I've had
for some time).

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo