--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:42 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > Let's take another example. > > > > Suppose somebody says they don't think MMY is a > > male chauvinist. > > > > And I respond, "Well, he does say women should > > stay at home and raise the children." > > > > Would you assume I *believed* women should stay > > at home and raise the children? > > > No.
Good. That's the point I was trying to make. > But what you and the others (pro-TMers) have been > saying all along is, "Well, he does say women should > stay home and raise the children, but that doesn't > necessarily make him a male chauvinist." > > See the difference? :) Well, it's not what I've said, Sal, to the contrary. And in any case, a pro-TMer who *did* say that would be making it quite clear they *did* believe what they were quoting. You would know what they believed from the context. So you're actually reinforcing my point. I think part of your problem is that you assume, perhaps unconsciously, that being pro-TM automatically means believing everything MMY says. It doesn't. Some pro-TMers do believe everything MMY says. Some believe some things he says and not others. Some believe some things he says, don't believe others, and haven't a clue about still others. I'm in the last category, FYI. So you need to know the *context* of my quoting MMY to know whether I agree, disagree, or don't have a view either way; or in some cases I may have a view, but it's not relevant to the context. Barry knows I'm in the last category too, but he simply ignores the context and makes the default assumption that I agree with anything I quote MMY as saying, because he can always use that as a putdown. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
