ArisKatsaris comments on Rationality Quotes: November 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Apprentice 04 November 2010 07:57:42AM 5 points [-]

While I don't particularly mind this being downvoted and would normally have expected it to be, I am slightly confused why this pantheistic anti-Bible quote is being downvoted while the pantheistic anti-Bible quote I posted it in reply to is being upvoted so much.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 04 November 2010 03:09:14PM *  5 points [-]

Besides those differences already mentioned by others: The parent quote talks about the continuous discovery of knowledge, yours talks about the obliteration of knowledge ("the words will be gone"), as if the fact that a text can be deleted proves it wrong.