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From: Fran Baker <fran@gershwin.dgii.com> Subject: More often than not... Date: Thursday, July 30, 1998 12:16 PM Donald Zhang Osborn <osborndo@pilot.msuNOSPAM.edu> writes: >I think more often than not, it is not that people ignore >others' opinions, but disagree and choose not to engage >in argumentation; I think more often than not it is that people respond to other's opinions with poor quality argumentation, specifically, pat answers that satisfy them in their own certainty but fail to convince many others. This is what happens when you spout a religious salespitch or sound bit rather than really listening to either yourself or your critic. Baha'i "teaching," like other conversion-driven conversation, usually includes a "teacher" with a closed mind and a "pupil" who suffers fools gladly. --Fran "Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing is wrong?" --a bumper sticker Homepage |