Arguing
The Debate Team
Have you
ever seen a debate team ever convince another debate team that they are right?
No. Because what is right is not the issue. Who wins the argument is the real
issue. Trying to force other people to change their minds won't work because "a
man convinced against his will--is of the same opinion, still." You can't change
a mind that doesn't want to be changed. (Kent Crockett, The 911 Handbook,
Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2003, 178-179)
Assuming
Got the Wrong Man!
Sam and
Jacqueline Pritchard started receiving mysterious phone calls to their home in
England in the middle of the night. The person on the other end never made a
comment. After a long pause, he would hang up.
They
changed their phone number to stop the harassing night calls. The stalker
changed his tactic. He started sending them obscene and threatening anonymous
letters in the mail. The couple discovered their house had been daubed with
paint, and their tires were slashed. The Pritchards became prisoners of their
own home and spent a small fortune on a security system. They had no idea what
they had done to deserve such cruel treatment.
After four
months of unexplained terrorism, they finally met the perpetrator. Mr. Pritchard
caught James McGhee, a 53-year-old man, while he was damaging their car. As they
looked at each other, Pritchard asked him, “Why are you doing this to us?”
The vandal
responded, “Oh, no—I’ve got the wrong man!”
McGhee
thought he was terrorizing a different man, who had been spreading rumors about
him. He had looked up Pritchard’s name and address in the telephone directory
and assumed he was the person responsible for slandering him. He got the wrong
Pritchard.
Assumptions
make us jump to the wrong conclusions, and others suffer as a result.
(Kent
Crockett, I Once Was Blind But Now I Squint, Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers,
2004, 71)
Atheists
Why Atheists Cannot Find God
"An atheist can't find God the same way a thief can't find a policeman." --Unknown
What Unbelievers Believe
"It's incredible what an unbeliever must believe to be an unbeliever." --Dr. Duane Gish
Saying NO to KNOW
"A skeptic won't take KNOW for an answer."
-- Unknown