--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
<snip>
> > It's YOU who are stuck in defensive mode, dude.  It's
> > like the moment your life got complicated, you felt
> > the need to cling to TM and its dogma, and to smite
> > anyone who challenges it.  
> 
> I'm not clingingto TM dogma. I'm merelypointing out that the dogma 
> isn't that contradictory.

Which is, in my observation, all you've
*ever* done. Nor have I noticed any change
in the last few days since your mother's
cancer was diagnosed.  That suggestion is
really a rather cheap shot.

There's a difference between insisting that
the "dogma" is the Truth, and pointing out
that arguments which misrepresent the dogma
have not succeeded in refuting it.

A person of intellectual integrity who
actively *disbelieves* in the "dogma" might
even point out such misrepresentations in
an effort to elicit more valid arguments
*against* it.

I'm not suggesting Sparaig actively
disbelieves in the "dogma," merely noting
that citing flaws in the arguments against
it is *not* necessarily an indication that
a person *does* believe in the "dogma."

Those to whom it's important to be able to
cling to their stories of why the "dogma"
isn't valid, however, may have a tendency
to paint any criticism of their arguments 
as "True Believerism," because then they
don't have to actually examine whether their
stories are quite as airtight as they had
hoped.





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