--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> Your problem is, you're not making a distinction
> between what is *self-evidently* true and what is
> *probably* true.  Your caveat is fine when it comes
> to what is *probably* true, but it looks real silly
> with regard to what is self-evidently true.

Well, this is fascinating. It is self-evidently true for you. It is
not self-evidently true for me. So in your world, and this is the
dangerous thing, it appears that you are willing and even feel
compelled to declare  that that which is self-evident to you to be 
self-evident for everyone. While I am not stating that you are a
fanatic, this is the logic and MOs used by fanatics world wide and
through the ages. 


 
> > >  It needs clarification by
> > > > Wilson -- which I assume he will provide today.
> > > 
> > > I'm sure he will, yes. 
> > 
> > Yes, so lets wait till he does instead of putting words in his
> > mouth.
> 
> Nobody put words in his mouth.  I stated what he had
> meant by the words he actually said.

Ha ha ha. I would not have believed you would say such words if I had
not read them myself. It is arrogance and even perverse to state
emphatically what another person meant, if there is ambiguity, without
consulting them. 

You KNOW what Wilson meant. Jerry Farwell KNOWs what Jesus meant. GWB
KNOWS what God meant. Bob Brigante KNOWS what MMY meant. Peter KNOWS
what Krishna meant. Si'ites KNOW what Mohammad meant but Sunnis also
KNOW what Mohammad meant -- and they are different. Pat Roberson KNOWS
what the founding fathers meant. Critic x KNOWs what TS Elliot meant
in the Four Quartets. JoeUFO KNOWS what the  Crop Cirles mean. Dick
Cheny KNOWS what al-Quada meant. Brown KNOWS what the DiVinci code meant. 

I am bent over in laughter. And a bit sad. 


 
> > > But he really shouldn't
> > > even have to; 
> > 
> > Yes, the world would be a lot simpler if the damned press would just
> > call you and clarify what everyone meant when words are ambiguous. 
> > But until Sat yuga, we will have to let the original speakers 
> > actually clarify for themselves what they meant, instead of relying 
> > on the clearly superior method of relying on you. :)
 
> Actually we can all use our God-given brains in
> many cases to figure out where the press has failed
> to use theirs.

And sometimes we are right and sometimes we are wrong. Are you always
right?


 
> > > it's quite obvious what he meant,
> > > in context.  

Not to all readers Judy. Because it is obvious to you, does not make
it obvious to everyone. Your defense for this proposition appears no
more sphisticated than "nah nah, everyone who doesn't see things like
me is STUPID!" (Do they poo poo in their pants too?) 





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