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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
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Gerry Quinn: There is no need for me to dwell on the inanity of <BR></DIV>
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drawing the above conclusion about my supposed world view from my <BR></DIV>
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observation that some people have a better grasp of some things than <BR></DIV>
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others do.<BR> <BR></DIV>
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Gerry, I didn't mean to offend you. You have to admit that your choice<BR></DIV>
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listing Knowledge of God, Science, Economics and card playing was an <BR></DIV>
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collection of activities in a discussion of ranking people's<BR></DIV>
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against others.</DIV></DIV>
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examples I picked were merely a more or less random though deliberately
disparate group of fields in which it is generally agreed that we have some
knowledge, but far from perfect knowledge.</DIV></DIV>
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</DIV>You seem like a very competitive guy in your dialogue here. You once
compared <BR></DIV>
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to the scorpion who stings the frog giving him a ride across the river.
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took this to mean you took pride in your competitive, combative nature.
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didn't know mentioning it would offend you. Apologies again. Many times I
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praised your contributions to this board and I still do so.<BR></DIV></DIV>
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I think you well know, I was not referring to myself when I alluded to the
scorpion.</DIV></DIV>
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Gerry Quinn</DIV></DIV>
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