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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by coldtea on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:50AM (#12488175)
>Don't people choose convenient fictions? Not people worth knowing, IMHO, no.

That's a convenient fiction to believe, but I haven't found it to be true in anybody.

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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by Nursie on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:57AM (#12488242)
That would be an opinion of mine, not a belief, that people worth knowing try not to hold on to fictions.

Whether they end up doing so is less important, they choose not to whenever the choice is apparent.

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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by coldtea on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:43AM (#12488664)
Not so sure about those "people worth knowing".

I've known wonderful artists and creative persons who absolutely could not give a flying duck for the "reality".

Was the person here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/ worth knowing?

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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by Nursie on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:50AM (#12488737)
A fun story, but not making pretensions to objective reality, which creationism certainly does.
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