"Bored With The *****" <firewevr@airmail.net> wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:43:02 GMT, duke32 <duke32@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:54:14 -0600, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Okay, get this.
I picked up this book religious book _When The Skeptics Ask_ for 50 cents
at a book sale in order to see what kinds of apologetics this guy had
going on. Naturally, his arguments were pathetic and totally not
happening. Anyway, the other day I decided to put it up on ebay to see
if anyone was interested. Rather quickly a person requested to buy the
book from me for $10. I couldn't fucking believe it. I mean, you've got
to really want a book to pay ten bucks for a used hardback with a
slightly damaged dust cover. This made me suspect that the person is
probably some kind of theistic nitwit. I'm not positive, but I find it
very unlikely that an atheist would pay $10 plus shipping just to own a
book with some weak xian apologetics. In any event, the person probably
isn't any too smart, whether a theist or no, because it's pretty easy to
get a copy of this shitty book at the library and in lots of used
bookstores. You won't even have to pay another $2.50 in shipping and
handling for the privilege. I think that most people who read the book
for about an hour realize what a piece of crap it is in short order
anyway, which explains the excess supply in the used bookstores.
Anyway,
if this person is a theist, then it gives me pleasure to think that I'm
separating them from some of their cash.
Suppose he's an atheist, quib, then what? Will you give him his money
back?
Doesn't matter. The odds of an atheist buying such a book on ebay are fairly
slim. This is jeezoid stuff we're talking about here.
The guy wants to trade, so trade with him. If he finds the book worth $10 then
quibbler is doing a fair trade by selling it to him. Quibbler may think he'd be
ripping off a God-bot, for which he'd take enormous satisfaction in doing, or
an atheist, in which case he may feel guilty, but the fact is quibbler would
be giving the buyer what he wants for an amount he's willing to pay. Obviously
the book is worth $10 to someone even if we think it's crap on stilts.
Cheers,
Tony.
http://isil.org/resources/introduction.swf
"That which is proper to each thing is by nature best and most pleasant for it; for humans,
therefore, the life according to reason is best and most pleasant, since reason more than anything
else IS human. This life therefore is also the happiest." -=Aristotle=- ("The Nicomachean Ethics,"
Book X, Ch. 7)
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