stiggy wiggy
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Depends. (There's that word again) Not trying to be a Bill Clinton here, but it depends on your meaning of the word "know."
Let's suppose a new guy moves next door to me. I meet him in his driveway. He introduces himself as Bob. I now know his name, but pretty much nothing else. I certainly know he exists. But do I KNOW him the way his wife knows him? Certainly not. And I might have even made some false impressions about him perhaps based on some false impressions the previous guy who lived in that house conveyed about him from the transactional sale of the house.
Does Bob WANT me to know him? Depends. He probably wouldn't mind my knowing him the way his friends know him. But to "know" him the way my ex-neighbor "knows" him, he'd probably just as soon I not even know he exists.
Now here's where some atheist might chime in with "Yeah, but does Bob threaten eternal punishment if you don't know him," or some such nonsense, causing me to once again point out the difference between an analogy and an equation. So let me just summarize my point:
To merely know someone exists is not to know him. Just ask Bob.
Let's suppose a new guy moves next door to me. I meet him in his driveway. He introduces himself as Bob. I now know his name, but pretty much nothing else. I certainly know he exists. But do I KNOW him the way his wife knows him? Certainly not. And I might have even made some false impressions about him perhaps based on some false impressions the previous guy who lived in that house conveyed about him from the transactional sale of the house.
Does Bob WANT me to know him? Depends. He probably wouldn't mind my knowing him the way his friends know him. But to "know" him the way my ex-neighbor "knows" him, he'd probably just as soon I not even know he exists.
Now here's where some atheist might chime in with "Yeah, but does Bob threaten eternal punishment if you don't know him," or some such nonsense, causing me to once again point out the difference between an analogy and an equation. So let me just summarize my point:
To merely know someone exists is not to know him. Just ask Bob.
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