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- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:16:02 GMT
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- In article <1eq9hqINNfa3@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, frank@D012S658.uucp
- (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >
- [much deleted]
- >
- >All I am saying is "people are strange". They do not follow the laws of
- >cause and effect. I think that people who attempt to superimpose the laws of
- >science and logic on people's behaviour (and equally God's, if she exists)
- >may be trying to subordinate a higher (more complete) system to a lower one.
- >
- >#-Ekr
- >--
-
- What I _hope_ this poster means is that folks don't always act for
- rational reasons, not that there are no reasons for their actions.
- Surely we are not to discard psychoanalysis and its descendants--which
- are about why we do what we do and how we got that way.
-
- What enabled me to retire to Rochester, New York (_the_ Garden Spot
- of the planet) is that I became fabulously wealthy from my business
- in Los Angeles. Clients would come to me and tell me what they wanted
- to do; for $25.00 I supplied them with a reason why it was okay for
- them to do it.
-
- Erik Timmerman
-