Re: HOPE but not faith
Bob Casanova <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 10:45:17 -0700, the following appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by Siri Cruise <[email protected]>: >Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 29-Mar-23 4:16 pm, David Dalton wrote: >>> Right now I donÂt have faith but do have hope that my global new >>> age onset magickal workings will have effect. >> >> Having some expectation that something will happen with no >> reasonable basis for thinking it will is neither hope, nor faith. >> It's delusion. > >Thanks for the update Miss Pandora. > "Miss Pandora"? Ah, another apologist for magic (or as David calls it, "magick". Cool. > -- Bob C. "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov