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I believe in the utility of my product more than he believes in his. I can almost guarantee you this is false. His beliefs have driven him to stand on the stre

I believe in the utility of my product more than he believes in his. I can almost guarantee you this is false. His beliefs have driven him to stand on the street corner every day and yell at strangers. Your beliefs have you picking up the phone here and there or sending a few emails. Not even remotely similar in terms of evidence of underlying belief in what you have to offer.

secretasiandan 17y ago
You're probably right, but everything is relative. Maybe he's deathly afraid of phones. Maybe the other guy feels very at home yelling at strangers. Que Dr. Jules Hilbert "if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes."
- ajju 17y ago
  I am not deathly afraid of phones, in fact I have grown sort of fond of the challenge of calling of stranger and convincing them about something I believe in. In that sense at least, I am not very different from the preacher. (Assuming of course that he likes what he does. Didn't seem that way from his demeanor :))
astine 17y ago
That depends on why he is out in the street yelling. If really is as angry as he sounds, it's probably not his faith per se that is prompting him to yell at strangers but his own disillusionment with either his faith or society at large. In this case, his beliefs merely give him cause to vent. I've known people like this. Then again, maybe he's not really angry and the whole 'fire an brimstone' thing is just his shtick.
ajju 17y ago
It's true, here's a more accurate statement: In my opinion, hard evidence of the utility of my product outweighs hard evidence, if any, of the utility of (at least) his brand of religion. As to the fact that his belief drives him to stand on the street corner and yell at strangers, that is what I am admiring. I can't comment to his motivations, but I didn't mean to cast aspersions on his enthusiasm with that sentence. Quite the contrary, in fact.

secretasiandan 17y ago

You're probably right, but everything is relative. Maybe he's deathly afraid of phones. Maybe the other guy feels very at home yelling at strangers. Que Dr. Jules Hilbert "if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes."

ajju 17y ago
I am not deathly afraid of phones, in fact I have grown sort of fond of the challenge of calling of stranger and convincing them about something I believe in. In that sense at least, I am not very different from the preacher. (Assuming of course that he likes what he does. Didn't seem that way from his demeanor :))

astine 17y ago

That depends on why he is out in the street yelling. If really is as angry as he sounds, it's probably not his faith per se that is prompting him to yell at strangers but his own disillusionment with either his faith or society at large. In this case, his beliefs merely give him cause to vent. I've known people like this. Then again, maybe he's not really angry and the whole 'fire an brimstone' thing is just his shtick.

ajju 17y ago

It's true, here's a more accurate statement: In my opinion, hard evidence of the utility of my product outweighs hard evidence, if any, of the utility of (at least) his brand of religion. As to the fact that his belief drives him to stand on the street corner and yell at strangers, that is what I am admiring. I can't comment to his motivations, but I didn't mean to cast aspersions on his enthusiasm with that sentence. Quite the contrary, in fact.