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From: Charles Thomson Category: Art Date: 01 November 2006 Time: 01:38 PM Review: Hey, well thanks for the apology, but I don't want you to feel bad, as I don't feel hurt and angry. I'm highly flattered you've bothered to write about us, but I just needed to set some things straight in the interests of intellectual objectivity, you understand. Anyway, I still think it's bonkers to say that in your view we don't believe what we're saying, when you don't have a scrap of evidence to support that view. I might just as well say that in my view you are a piece of cheese or a skyscraper. It would mean nothing. If I say I believe something, then I believe it. It's simple. I might be deceiving myself about the thing I believe in (i.e. it might be wrong), but not the actual fact that I do believe in it. It's not linguistic pedantry, though it might be a misunderstanding of your intention, which I assumed was to say we don't believe in concepts - this is something that has been presumed by others on more than one occasion. Cheers!