[MCAD] Not Up to Fatima?

Brian Dean errancy@infidels.org
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 23:21:14 -0400 (00933927674, 37AA54AA.81CE2193@worldnet.att.net)



> >BRIDEAN
> >In that case what if I claimed that my car rolled UP a hill on it's own. Would
> >you accept this claim?
> >
>
> TILL
> What is there about plain English that you can't seem to understand? Of
> course, I would not believe your claim that a car had rolled up the hill on
> its (no apostrophe) own, because this would be an extraordinary claim that
> conflicts with observed reality.
BRIDEAN Sorry Till, there is a hill in Ohio that if you put a car in the right place on the hill, it will roll UP the hill on its own. I can get more information about this if you want, but as I suspect, you as well as most other people are likely to dismiss something that they don't experience themselves EVEN IF it doesn't contradict the natural laws of science.