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- From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.magick,alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Book Review 'Persuasions of the Witch's Craft' (longish)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.143752.12780@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 14:37:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.222113.4031@PA.dec.com> <1992Aug15.162849.295@u.washington.edu> <1992Aug16.015808.16448@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> <ya9mm+f.payner@netcom.com>
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- In article <ya9mm+f.payner@netcom.com>, payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes in part:
- |> In article <1992Aug16.015808.16448@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- |>
- |> > As for the SI interview, that sounds to me too much like the kind of
- |> >intellectual arrogance that the author warns against. The reviewer sounds like
- |> >a conversionary skeptic, a type I dislike almost as much as conversionary
- |> >atheists...
- |>
- |> I am rather perturbed by the concept that one must have all the answers to
- |> absolutley everything in order to be properly skeptical.
- [...]
- |>
- |> Rich
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- |> payner@netcom.com
- I am far less perturbed that R.P. is by this comment because I know
- that this article was posted simultaneously to alt.magick and alt.pagan
- as well as sci.skeptic (a tactic that may be subject to criticism!).
- I expect this comment came from a different news group milieux, and in
- that light is much less problematic. If I wanted to avoid such criticism,
- I certainly would have restricted my postings to sci.skeptic!
-
- A.H.'s comments are well received by me, although I naturally squirm
- under such terrible labels!
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- Robert E. McGrath
- Urbana Illinois
- mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
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