Salutatio Frank!
13-Jan-98, Frank Masingill wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: Back to Apes
 RM>> Many people find it hard to face simple non-existence after
 RM>> death. They
 FM> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 RM>> Oh my dear friend, you will have to show me where I stated that I
 RM>> KNEW what happens after death.  I merely said that religion is
 RM>> the result of the fear of nothing after death.  Not that there
 RM>> WAS nothing after death.
 FM> O.K., Richard, (grin) look at the careted sentence above.  Are you
 FM> contending that I should not have understood that as a statement
 FM> of a known fact?  If so, then, of course, I misread you.
You *assumed* that is what I meant, Fank ol' boy.  You simply read more
into what I wrote.  Should I have to put some kind of disclaimer
specifically for you benefit?  No where in there did I state "fact" or
"truth" or any assumption of that kind.
 FM> I
 FM> believe that if I had stated such and wanted it to be clearer I
 FM> would have inserted "possible" between "face" and "simple."
It would have been too wordy.  What I stated stands all on it's own and
retains the same meaning (provided the one reading it is not you, of
course ;).  You can go right ahead and put "possible" in there, but it
is a waste of time.
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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