--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:19 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. If > > Barry, for example, has said that MMY has lost it, > > and then quoted MMY as saying the world is going > > to end if TM-Sidhas don't all go to the domes, > > would you assume Barry believes the world is about > > to end if TM-Sidhas don't all go to the domes? Or > > would you assume that Barry is quoting MMY to back > > up his point that MMY has lost it? > > The latter, which is exactly *my* point. Barry quotes > some goofy quote to show the goofiness. You guys (pro-TMers) > quote some invariably goofy thing and then try to rationalize > it, no matter how absurd it may be on its face. As you say, > it's all in the context.
Yeah, except that we don't always do that, Sal. Sometimes we do what Barry does (as I just did in the case of MMY's dictum about women staying home and raising the children). Sometimes we're just correcting somebody who was misrepresenting MMY--eliminating a straw man, in other words. Sometimes we play devil's advocate because the "goofy" interpretation is so, well, goofy. I just realized who you keep reminding me of. It's the fundie Christian who used to hang out on alt.m.t. I once got into an argument with him about a fine point of Christian theology concerning baptism. He was arguing the fundie view, naturally (that only adult baptism is biblical), and I was arguing the mainstream Protestant view, that infant baptism is also biblical. He knew I wasn't a believer, and he couldn't figure out for the *life* of him why I'd be defending infant baptism as having biblical support when baptism in general wasn't something I believed in. He simply couldn't grasp the notion of my playing devil's advocate against his extreme views. 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/
