Arny Krueger wrote:

This post is an email that went awry - it was supposed
to be private email. Sorry

**Apology accepted.

So far so good.

Then the self-righteousness started spilling out:

It's not the self-righteousness that I find pathetic, Arny,
but the paucity of its rationale.

Few of us here bother with a dodgy,
policially censored, 2,000 year old book. Gobbledegook
is for the morons, not those of us who actually think.

Bare facts aren't worth thinking about, surely? The only
worthwhile thought is one that starts with gobbledegook, and
ends with enlightenment.

You can see where Arnie's "I know the Truth, I will
instruct you in it" attitude comes from :-)

I picked it up from certain people who have exactly the
same attitude about their perceptions of the world's
absence of need for spiritual interests. ;-)

Ah! Another opportunity for:

http://www.ivesonaudio.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/hegel.htm

Ian