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From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Why I won't debate Greg Stevens
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Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 15:59:39 GMT
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In article <3e0duf$3gu@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> roose@ix.netcom.com (Richard Roose) writes:
>Greg,
>
>[...]  You have certainly demonstrated that you 
>are very intelligent, very well educated and very committed to your 
>beliefs.  You are also the most articulate of all of the "my fantasy is 
>as valid as your knowledge fanatics that have responded to my essays 
>concerning Reality and the Purpose of Life.  
>
>I say "fanatic" because by definition, only a fanatic will assert that 
>which they know they cannot prove with hard evidence open to independent 
>verification.
>[...]
>
>I don't need to work for a living anymore, I've 
>scaled back my "nut" to the point I can make it on $5 an hour and still 
>have 12 to 18 hours a day to devote to this subject.  

Now *that's* what I call a fanatic!



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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Department of Psychology            cgreen@vm1.yorku.ca
York University 
North York, Ontario M3J 1P3
