From: Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A guide on setting up C/C++ development environment for Emacs
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:47:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMJ-YiRQ1E7JcCaFNwkQCdbeu_=vOCoOP7BoPB5esPwynM1Zvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140828214327.48d41c9c@aga-netbook>
1) Hitler was a Christian.
2) What do you mean "false interpretations"? There's no canonical
interpretation of these religions, hence large factions exist between
almost all of them; killing under these "interpretations" is very much
dogma.
> So for me, it's rather a 0:0 draw. Of course, we *might* count in
pseudo-religious causes, but then why don't we count in
pseudo-science? Both ways of counting are similarly dishonest.
There is no such thing as pseudo-religion; it's all just religion.
Pseudo-science isn't even close to science.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
wrote:
> Dnia 2014-08-28, o godz. 13:13:53
> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> > So, let me ask again: how many people have been killed in the name of
> > science vs. killed in the name of religion? It's pretty clear: very
> > few people have murdered someone else because "the science dictates
> > this should happen", when many people have killed other people simply
> > because of religious dogma.
>
> This is becoming totally off-topic, but to keep things precise:
>
> 1. I have yet to hear about a murder because "the science dictates this
> should happen". Unless we count in pseudo-science, that is, like the
> "science" of racial purity of the German authorities during WW2 and
> similar things. Nobody's going to treat this seriously as "science",
> though.
>
> 2. I have also yet to hear about a murder "because of religious
> dogma". I've heard about murders because of false interpretations
> and/or false religions, but not about a single one because of a
> *dogma*.
>
> So for me, it's rather a 0:0 draw. Of course, we *might* count in
> pseudo-religious causes, but then why don't we count in
> pseudo-science? Both ways of counting are similarly dishonest.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>
>
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2014-08-27 7:05 A guide on setting up C/C++ development environment for Emacs solidius4747
2014-08-27 12:48 ` Dmitriy Igrishin
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2014-08-27 14:15 ` Dmitriy Igrishin
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2014-08-27 14:53 ` Fwd: " Tu Hoang Do
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2014-08-27 18:14 ` Tu Hoang Do
2014-08-27 18:15 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-27 18:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-08-27 18:42 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-27 18:42 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-27 18:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-08-27 19:05 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-27 19:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2014-08-27 20:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-08-27 20:11 ` Jai Dayal
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2014-08-27 23:17 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-27 23:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2014-08-28 3:30 ` Rusi
2014-08-28 3:33 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-28 4:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2014-08-28 5:39 ` Rusi
2014-08-28 12:27 ` Jai Dayal
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2014-08-28 15:53 ` solidius4747
2014-08-28 21:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-08-28 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-28 23:28 ` Dmitry
2014-08-29 0:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2014-08-29 3:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-29 6:06 ` David Engster
2014-08-29 13:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-08-29 13:16 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-29 13:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-08-29 13:52 ` David Engster
2014-08-29 14:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2014-08-29 13:15 ` Rusi
2014-08-28 17:08 ` Rusi
2014-08-28 17:13 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-28 19:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-08-28 19:47 ` Jai Dayal [this message]
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2014-08-28 17:26 ` Rusi
2014-08-28 23:01 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-08-27 18:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-08-27 14:39 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2014-08-27 15:01 ` solidius4747
2014-08-27 18:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2014-08-29 14:33 ` Tory S. Anderson
2014-08-29 17:21 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-29 18:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-08-29 18:15 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-29 18:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-08-29 18:34 ` Jai Dayal
2014-08-29 19:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.7863.1409335908.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-30 3:43 ` Rusi
2014-08-30 7:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-08-30 21:27 ` Jai Dayal
[not found] ` <mailman.7951.1409434065.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-31 1:53 ` Rusi
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