----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 2:26 PM Subject: re: brin: My big salvo
> At 12:03 PM 10/11/2004 -0700 d.brin wrote: > >I will happily take brickbats and/or criticism about it and/or > >suggestions for more material. Just kindly do not quote me except > >when citing words and opinions that I actually say. > > A low blow. The only word I quoted before was "officially." The point > of the quote was to draw attention to the fact that the sort of > millenialist movement you were describing is far too decentralized to be > accurate described as having "official" positions. I probably should have taken brin out of the last reply, but I think it belongs in this one. I found it rather difficult parsing the meaning of your comments, because the most obvious meaning of a straight reading of the text , was Bush was a Jehovah's Witness..since they are the only body that I know of that takes the 144k literally. I'm almost certain you didn't think that, but I had to guess at the real meaning. In other words, a bit more precision and a bit less steam would go a long way in helping us obtain your meaning. Misunderstanding is not the same as twisting. I go toe to toe with John on a lot of topics, as my last few posts show, but I can certainly see how he mistakenly parsed that meaning from your text. Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
