From: CHARLES DITTELL     
To: DRAGONFLY           
Subject: relig & logic??
Date & Time: 05/20/91 17:20:17
Message Number 16936

Some _very_ good points. I think there's an underlying continuum we're
both referring to, and it relates to the basic question "How to we
'know' something"... so, for instance, we may use the word "useful" or
"correct" or "true" to describe a point on that continuum, but you're
position and mine may be some distance apart. I use "know" or "true"
to describe something such as "the world is (more or less) round",
being aware that some physicist may do some study of alternate
realities to "prove" that the earth is a torus, but in an additional
dimension which we don't directly perceive...and at that point I would
have to say that what I thought I knew, I didn't! Or I may feel that
it is "useful" to believe that the earth is more or less round, etc...
So though I use "useful" much as "true" (or at least as a subset of
"true"), I still may find some items useful/true which you don't.
And so the upshot may well be that as interesting as this discussion
is, it may well lead nowhere! Which is ok, too. After all, I think it
is useful/true that we all are born and we all die and the only 
question is what to do in between, and discussions sure seem "usefule"
to me!! :)