Dear Mike:
You said: "Let me reassure you, Bill, that I include myself firmly in the ranks of that same "lunatic fringe" whenever I make such a comment. Like so many of you here, I've come a *long* way in what I will admit to the realm of possibility, since coming aboard the internet a dozen or so years ago. Thus, even if I poke a little fun at us, it's with respect and fondness." Well said, Mike! I'm firmly there myself, and see the OT list as the place where we can spout til we drop on any fringe belief we might entertain. You have once again proven why you are our respected OO. With regards, Bill Missett <LOL>!!! I think this thread illustrates aptly just how *impossible* it is to communicate succinctly in an all-text medium such as this! Was I casting aspersions on all of our alternative thinkers? Was Bill's post *really* tongue-in-cheek? Am I insulted by his "OT Loony Bin" remark? <dum dum dummmmm...> (Organ music, with lots of tremolo!) The reason for my original post was to encourage you all to keep the more speculative stuff short, or move it to the OT list. The fact is, I'm not so many years removed from my pre-awakened state that I've forgotten how *I* would have reacted to chemtrails, pyramids, orgone or the persecution of Tesla, if early on I had stumbled into a forum like this looking for information about colloidal silver. When deciding about topics I always visualize somebody arriving, relatively new to the net, a bit nervous about this alternative medicine stuff, and ultimately skeptical about anything that's not been blessed by coverage on the evening news. Do we want to help them or scare them away? What we have here is a balancing act. I don't want to stop everybody from enjoying the discussion, but for the sake of the mission we have to be sure that the "crazy sounding" stuff stays to a small-ish fraction of the content. That way folks will see that there *is* worthwhile information to be found here "despite" the handful of "crackpots" and "lunatics" who believe in all that "other junk..." In time, of course, they'll begin to realize that we're practically *all* crackpots and loonies by those standards -- and hopefully they'll balance that against the solid things they've learned about CS and maybe, just maybe, start to re-examine their assumptions about what they think is real. As I see it, CS is an easy first step on the road to waking up. It works, it's easy and cheap (or should be anyway), and it can be explained in pretty conventional scientific terms. It'll *also* get them rubbing elbows with all of us "kooks" who've decided to stop believing everything our doctors say and taken personal responsibility for our health. Can you imagine a better way to get through to people? Let me reassure you, Bill, that I include myself firmly in the ranks of that same "lunatic fringe" whenever I make such a comment. Like so many of you here, I've come a *long* way in what I will admit to the realm of possibility, since coming aboard the internet a dozen or so years ago. Thus, even if I poke a little fun at us, it's with respect and fondness. Peace. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
