--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2006, at 10:07 AM, authfriend wrote:
> 
> > Also absolutely correct, and also absolutely irrelevant.
> >
> > Look, let's make it *real simple*.
> >
> > If I were to say, "George Bush says God tells him
> > what to do," would you automatically assume I
> > believed God tells George Bush what to do?
> >
> > Or would you need some *context* to determine
> > whether that's what I believed?
> 
> Judy, you might not do this, but when people are trying to make a 
> point, and they offer quotes, it is usually as *evidence* or backup 
> that what they said is true.  What you are saying is that people are 
> offering MMY's quotes whether or not they believe them to be true, 
> whether or not they back up their (the poster's) point.  I'd say the 
> context in which this happens on this board pretty much negates that, 
> and it's nuts to think otherwise.  You and other pro-TMers who use 
> MMY's quotes to back up what you've said either believe them to be 
> true--or else are trying to deceive.  So which is it?

Or, O LIght of My LIfe [she still has me kill-filed], they're backing up their 
argument about 
what MMY says and apparently believes, by quoting him, regardless of whether or 
not they 
agree with what he says or believes...






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