--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Lsoma@ wrote: > > > > > > > > Please refrain from language that is offensive. > > > > > > Language cannot possibly *be* offensive. Humans > > > may choose to be offended, that's all. > > > > > > > Maharishi does not deserve this.Lou Valentino > > > > > > If he didn't deserve it, it wouldn't be happening. > > > Karma 101. > > > > And the Jews deserved the Holocaust, Africans > > deserved slavery, RFK deserved assassination, > > etc., etc., etc. > > > > Well like DUH. Of course, "Karma did it" when talking about disasters and holocausts has > about as much use as "God did it" when talking about Science. It may be 100% true, but its > ALWAYS true, and hence has no real "excess explanatory power."
Barry has never quite grasped the notion of explanatory power or why it's important. As long as the words he writes look to him as though they're explaining something, it doesn't matter whether what he's written is actually explanatory contextually.
