Thank you for setting me straight. I will endeavor to sharpen my writing skills and get up to speed on various literary devices one might use in making a point.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Jesus, where have you been living Mars? > > My comment that "Vaccines are the panacea that cures all ills" wasn't meant to be taken literally, Mr. PhD. It was in fact an example of both hyperbole, which is the use of exaggeration to emphasize a point, and the use of allusion, which is using one fact or idea to reference another, although it was more hyperbole than allusion. > > I was alluding to the fact that drug companies aggressively and somewhat deceptively market their wares (both drugs and vaccines) and using a bit of exaggeration to make the point, as well as alluding to the deceptive marketing practices of TM. > > If you and feste who seem eager to root out the ignorant and uneducated here on FFL would spend some time EDUCATING yourselves as to the use of literary devices in the English > language, AND educate yourselves about the way drug companies market their wares you would be much better off than simply blindly accepting what the drug companies tell you. > > I know that is difficult since you have had a fine indoctrination from the TMO to just believe what you are told, but a bit of education on your part on these matters might stand you in good stead. > > I doubt you read all that I posted on drug companies, but my writing is based on my reading on the subject, various investigative reporting that has been done in the past 20 years on the enormities of drug companies, first hand accounts from friends of mine who are drug company reps and my own good common sense. > > Once again I offer you good sense in a cogent and concise manner, regardless of what Barry thinks. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: seventhray27 steve.sundur@... > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:42 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: marshy > > > >  > It is a little painful to say, Mike, that you do appear, as Feste has said, to be pretty uneducated. Where have vaccines been declared to be a "panacea that cures all ills". This is your trademark hyperbole, which you likely would not have the ability to back up. But maybe you'd like to give it a try. >  > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > > > I'm not against all vaccines, but I don't care for the deceitful way in which they are marketed. Vaccines are the panacea that cures all ills, sound familiar? Wouldn't surprise me if the marketing departments of the drug companies were staffed with the likes of Neil Paterson - the TM hucksterism is of the same stripe. > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: authfriend authfriend@ > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:22 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: marshy > > > > > > > > à> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: > > (snip) > > > He left a carpet of broken lives. This is my opinion. I know > > > others, including the creator of FFL feel > differently and if > > > Alex and Rick want to ban me for expressing what I believe > > > (which ain't much of a stretch given his behavior) then so be it. > > > > As much of an asshole as you're showing yourself to be, > > nobody's about to "ban" you from FFL for expressing your > > views on Maharishi and the TMO. > > > > That you would consider being banned for doing so even a > > faint possibility is a very clear demonstration of your > > inability to think rationally about anything TM-related. > > (Or anything else, for that matter, given your recent > > idiotically paranoid tirade against vaccines.) > > >
