--from above--

To help ground the difference between how the universe just "is" and its behaviours just "are" in contrast to our excepted behaviour according to the man-made "Laws of Physics" I'll give an example:

When an electron gets "hit" by a photon the electron doesn't think to itself and say: "I've got to obey the laws of physics" so it whips out a calculator and solves the equations of quantum electrodynamics and moves accordingly. No, instead it just interacts with the photon just as it is in it nature to.

However, whenever a human has observed an electron/photon interaction the best (most accurate) description of what has happened, to the limits of the precision our current measuring equipment, is given by a solution to the equations of quantum electrodynamics. Furthermore, because this same behaviour has been observed every single time an election/photon interacts we assume that in the future they will interact in a similar fashion. So we assume that by using rational reasoning, in the form of mathematically manipulating the equations of the description, we can predict future behaviour that would occur in a novel scenario.

'OK, OK, you don't want tell us how many converts you picked up on this post; but there is something you can tell us: Pell - guilty or not guilty? You're in the God game so we reckon you should know the answer to that.'

Well Mr O. Seven High Court judges said he was not guilty. We have not become as corrupted as the American courts with lying democrat activist judges yet. Of course Victoria is an exception.

runner,

The High Court's ruling does not mean the Cardinal
is innocent. The High Court's appeal did not ask
whether Cardinal Pell committed the offences. It
asked whether the two majority judges in the Victorian
Court of appeal in dismissing Pell's earlier appeal made
a legal error about the nature of the correct legal
principles or their application. Pell got off on a legal
technicality - not because he was found innocent.

Dear Ozpen,

You wrote; “Some posters on OLO are so bad with their attacks and logical fallacies that I won't open their posts - to avoid further rants at me personally or my God.”
Seriously?

Really? Is that really going to be your position?

Mate, you are the one who constantly brings up logical fallacies yet when it is pointed out to you that your use of them is utterly suspect you claim some kind of persecution rather than addressing the charge itself.

Where have I attacked your God? I consider myself a strongly cultural Christian, proud of those roots, who has a deep respect for the bible and utterly adverse to those who would take its teaching in vain to promote their particular brand of exclusionary religion.

I have rightly challenged your use of the charge of logical fallacies. You have at best a shallow understanding and a highly selective application of them. My suggestion still stands, go and learn more about them before inflicting them on the rest of us.

That you somehow feel the need to claim the victim card rather than address those challenges speak far more about you than the others on this forum.

This is an opinion site. If you are so put out by the opinion of others then why don't you go an post of a far more sympathetic forum.

To do so would be to deny the real utility of posting to a site where divergent views, though admittedly muted in comparison to the past, allow you to test your world view.

Grow up, grow a spine, and put counter arguments rather than cowering in victimhood.

'Pell got off on a legal
technicality - not because he was found innocent.'

Foxy even you are smart enough to know that in our court system one is innocent until proven guilty. I know the lying left like to change it for those they dislike but you are talking garbage. He was not found innocent just like you have not been found innocent of child abuse. It is only the corrupt Victorian Police and Court that act this way. We could advertise in the paper for those who you might of abused if you like.

runner,

Sorry I don't understand what you are talking about.
You make no sense.