Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA02441 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:07:02 +0100 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:53:14 +0100 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: mysticism etc Message-ID: <20000925195314.A505@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745A45@inchna.stir.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745A45@inchna.stir.ac.uk>; from v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:02:07PM +0100 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:02:07PM +0100, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> I realise Robin is bowing out on this, there's one point here I just wanted
> to respond to, and I'm not expecting a response from Robin, I just wanted to
> put this out there. It contains a few rhetorical questions.
Just one brief point in self-defense.
> > Psychology is
> >what it's ALL about. It's just a pity neither the fundamentalists
> nor
> >the atheists can appreciate that. Both take it all too literally.
<snip>
> Psychology is vitally important in understanding people's beliefs and
> behaviours, but anti-rational beliefs and practices I truly feel encourage
> people to be delusional:
None of my beliefs or practices is anti-rational. If you insist that
mysticism is, then we disagree on what that word means.
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