Till in Atlanta
Miracle (miracle@procyon.com)
Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:58:16 -0500 (CDT)
RJV 4/13
Well, I saw Till today for the first time in Atlanta at around 1:30
eastern time. He, Raymond Hicks, and myself ate lunch and talked about
the list before the 3:00 meeting of the Atlanta Freethought Society (AFS).
At around 3 o'clock eastern, we went into the lecture room and introduced
ourselves to members of the AFS. Jager was there, and Raymond and I
talked with him while Till was preparing to lecture on Bible Prophesies.
Till's lecture went OK - although, he really needs more than just an hour
to discuss this topic. I thought he did OK though, using the breif time
to introduce the topic of failed prophesies, state qualifications needed
for a prophesy to be fufilled, and pointing out a few examples. The group
of around 50 people seemed to enjoy the speech, and some seemed
interested in the topic in general. After Till's 1 hour presentation,
there was a Q&A session in which the audience asked Till questions. The
people in Atlanta seemed to be very receptive and interested in the topic
of failed prophesies. After the meeting was over, Till, his wife, and
myself went to Piedmont Park for about 1/2 hour and then back to his hotel
room and discussed postings and posters. (Yes, that means YOU! ;) ) I
left a few hours ago and drove back home. It was definitely a fun
experience, and I hope to meet more of you in the future... Anyways,
that's about all from me unless you have specific questions. Perhaps
Jager, Hicks, or Till will have more insight on the meeting.
Oh - Till said he'd be back in E-mail distance late Thursday, so if you
have any postings waiting on his response - he should get to them after
then. Of course, he'll probably have a few hundred postings to waddle
through, so most of us might become known as "delete". ;)
-- R Jason Valentine ..ooOO miracle@procyon.com
"As I argued in "Beloved Son", a book about my son Brian and the subject
of religious communes and cults, one result of proper early instruction
in the methods of rational thought will be to make sudden mindless
conversions -- to anything -- less likely. Brian now realizes this and
has, after eleven years, left the sect he was associated with. The
problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to
a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy
is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and
irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in
changing the believer's mind."
[Steve Allen]