"Real" ringworlds

[Fyron]

Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by Jack Simth:
How do you know you are the one with the "real" meaning...

Here is the dictionary definition:
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
- Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary

And here is a more succinct definition:
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
- Mark Twain

I hope that clears things up!

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As I have said countless times, dictionaries are great for a basic understanding of a term, but they often miss the more sublte meanings and uses of complex terms.

Jack:
I never claimed to have "authority" in this matter. Just because someone is contradicting me (though not very effectively) does not mean that I am autmotatically wrong.

Why should he post a conter argument when all you have been doing is contradicting him, and not arguing yourself?

I already posted my argument, and he ignored it up until the very Last post or two. There is not really much in his Posts to argue against. And, any more argument on my part would be repeating what I already said, which would be counter-productive. Most of my Posts were trying to get him to actually read my post, which took quite some time.

Actually, now that I think about it, I did post another argument, that his "definition" was included in part of my "definition". His is just too narrow.

Here is a quote of myself for you:

My "definition" includes all common usages of the term faith.

This is part of the argument that the term "faith" is much broader than Narf thinks it is.

[ May 22, 2003, 19:53: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]