--- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote:
> 
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote:
> >
> > > Would you care to give a brief summary of why you think
> > > it's credible?
> >
> > I read it, and I found it credible. It's hard to say why
> > something like this book has the ring of authenticity;
> > it's more a matter of whether it has any signs of
> > *in*authenticity. And it didn't, as far as I could tell.
> >
> > Part of it is that it's so amateurishly written.
> > Typically, folks who write sensational false exposes do
> > so with a great deal of care because they know what
> > they write is going to be closely scrutinized, and they
> > want to make sure it's as convincing as they can
> > possibly make it. I didn't get any sense of that sort of
> > calculation from Judith's book, but rather of an
> > unskilled, awkward, artless innocence. That's really,
> > really hard to fake.
> >
> > Another aspect--probably even more significant--is that
> > the tone isn't vindictive but instead sad and regretful,
> > almost wistful. That isn't typical of a false expose
> > either. She spends quite a bit of time expressing her
> > great admiration for MMY; she doesn't try to make him
> > into a villain or a fraud as some of the critics here do.
> >
> > So those are two specific points. The rest is mostly
> > intuition: it just *sounds true*.
> >
> Sorry that just doesn't cut it.

Look, you asked me why *I* found it credible, remember?
And I obliged. What I told you cuts it for *me*. If
you'd asked me to tell you why the book should cut it
for *you*, I wouldn't even have tried.

It's ridiculous to argue about whether it's credible
with someone who hasn't even read it.




> > > If you are going to lose any commission on this book
> > > by doing so please forgive me and feel free to ignore.
> >
> > Oh, give me a *break*, Ravi! You sound like Nabby at
> > his absolute worst. Why do you even care about any of
> > this anyway?
> >
> 
> I have a Nabby, a Judy, a Jim, a Rick, a Curtis, a Trickster Turqster, a
> rest of the other posters in me, I always accept everything. And why do
> I care? Why do I care? Goddammit !!! I have an equal right as the other
> posters to indulge in insipid insinuating innuendos.
> I have really a good credible witness that has pointed to the
> involvement of Rick and Curtis here - let's call this credible witness
> Credible Witness "R", I have yet another credible witness, referred for
> simplicity as Credible Witness "A" that has backed up the claims of
> Credible Witness "R".
> There are also two other credible witnesses - for convenience sake here
> referred to as Credible Witness "V" and Credible Witness "I" who have
> graciously agreed to be on standby should the accounts of Credible
> Witness "R" and Credible Witness "A" be ever doubted.
> I, personally have no doubt about the veracity of the statements of all
> these credible witnesses. YMMV.
>


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