Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uncle Steve Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Qbasic Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:12:50 -0500 Organization: Friends of the Galactic Collective Lines: 56 Message-ID: <6a65b6076df333a-469ea@gmail.com> References: <66f6c76237c1f1f-fb426@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d937dfc22cef0e4be584b6a1fbc7f9e9"; logging-data="27865"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Vi+VzMMIhrfcM+DINysHc" User-Agent: nn 6.7.3 Content-Length: 2766 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JaJJxTzeNPafeJ5MaK6R9oSqXSo= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:160911 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:28:10AM -0800, Quadibloc wrote: > On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 9:30:05 AM UTC-7, Uncle Steve wrote: > > > When I use the word 'science' I do not mean to refer to the "let's > > play God and go forth to commit crimes against humanity for fun and > > profit" science which otherwise refers to itself as 'Christian > > Science'. How others may use the term I cannot say. > > Whatever Mary Baker Eddy might have had to do with the design of nuclear > weapons, or anti-personnel weapons, escapes me at the moment. It's just part of my .sig, and is not intended to apply directly to the topic in the thread. But since you mention it, the OSS psychological workup on Hitler suggests that MBE was much like Adolf (1942). Fast-forward to the late Nineteen Seventies, and we have Stansfield M Turner as Director CIA subsequent to being NATO CIC, Allied Forces Southern Europe. He would have been cleared to know all about strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during that time. Now a comparison of nominal equivalence between Hitler and MBE is not in and of itself a reflection on the religious movement, unless the OSS knows more about the Church of Christ, Scientist than they have so far disclosed through declassified publications through their successor the CIA. Nevertheless it is concerning considering the church's eschatology as we know it. I have personally had a brush with a seemingly high-profile member or members of that "faith" and can assure you that on that basis the slur is applicable. > Not that encouraging parents not to get medical treatment for their sick > children is not wrong, but usually that's not the sort of thing people call > "crimes against humanity". It might be if they (some of them) know they are dooming their children to sickness or death deliberately while they hide behind the excuse of religious doctrine. But that is not the main thrust of my aspersions on their religion. I do not propose to go into great detail here other than to note that many religious people behave one way when they know someone is watching, and quite another when they feel they are unobserved. > Or, possibly, this has nothing to do with the Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist > and instead has to do with the kind of science that sticks to technology, and > doesn't try to needlessly trouble the faithful by speculating on evolution or > cosmology. As I said, my .sig is not intended to apply to every message thread I might post messages to. -- When I use the word 'science' I do not mean to refer to the "let's play God and go forth to commit crimes against humanity for fun and profit" science which otherwise refers to itself as 'Christian Science'. How others may use the term I cannot say.