> Kenneth Boyd wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com wrote:
> >
> > > Richard Brodie wrote:
> > >
> > > > Drakir wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >On the other hand, religions often restrict people in their actions,
> > > > >thus
> > > > >curtailing their enjoyment of life. I am an athiest because I beleive
> > > > >in
> > > > >maximum freedom for everyone - religion goes against this belief, and
> > > > >so
> > > > >I must oppose it!
> > > >
> > > > I doubt you'd find much agreement from anyone religious that their
> > > > religion curtails their enjoyment of life. This is your simple
> > > > prejudice, and an inaccurate one.
> > >
> > > I don't think that you can brand someone's personal opinion as "prejudice".
> >
> > ???
> >
> > As far as I know, "prejudice" is a specialization of "personal opinion".
> >
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> You have taken me very slightly out of context here. I personally believe that
> Shreddies are nicer than Corn Flakes, but this does not make me prejudiced
> against Corn Flake eaters, does it? A "prejudice" is a "personal opinion"
> taken to the point where anyone who disagrees with it becomes hated! As
> I have stated on many occasions, a large proportion of my friends are
> religious in some way or another. I don't hate any of them! I may well
> not like their religion, but that's an entirely different matter.
I see.
One of the reasons I work in mathematics is that writeups that use
invisible context [like the invisible context in the entire paragraph I
clipped after that sentence!] are bad writeups by definition.
"Invisible context": The context that the language bootstrap driver
[Chomsky grammar filter] SHOULD pick up automatically. This procedure is
vulnerable to nonstandard processing efforts. [For instance, using
kinesthetic modes when doing abstract thought CORRECTLY is a dead
giveaway that the processing weights are off.]
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