--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy > Mental illness or personality disorders run a gambit > > (run the gamut) > > Me Excellent correction, thank you. Been saying that wrong > all my life.
I just realized I had *no* idea what a "gamut" actually was, so I looked it up. It's from the Latin "gamma," for the lowest note on a medieval scale; "gamut" originally meant "the whole series of recognized musical notes," according to my dictionary. Hence the modern meaning of "run the gamut": covering a range of one extreme to another. > > Me > > I am saying that this is just my opinion about the guy. Any > attempt > > > to be more "right" about this topic than I am will not get any > > > traction with me. > > > Judy > Well, I know that. "My mind's made up, don't confuse > > me with the facts." > > > > What I'm pointing out is that your conclusions > > just aren't logical. > > Me Claiming that someone is not being logical works better > on people who didn't study logic. We have different premises > so our onclusions are different. I'm saying your *premises* aren't logical given the known facts. E.g., what kind of "medical (i.e., psychiatric) attention" is a family living in a village in Uttar Pradesh in 1879 going to be able to obtain for a 9-year-old bent on leaving home to seek God? Logic has nothing to do with it. We are both > expressing an opinion about the facts and looking at it from > different perspectives. Your belief that your opinion is more > factual is one of the important differences in how we view > these discussions. Uh-huh. See if you can address my question above, then explain why Guru Dev's parents should be considered psychopathic child abusers.
