[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Heather Perella]

Platt,

> SA:   They asked very clear questions, and made very
> > clear statements.  What is not clear to you Platt,
> is your cookie cutter episode, in which you have
this
> > preconceived notion about what they must be
> talking about.  Even though, what they are saying is
> > straightforward, you search and search, thinking
> you know what's going on in their heads, and you try
> to analyze too much between the lines.  Notice how
> you say, "what the writer really means."  Your
> searching beyond the words they typed.  So what your
really
> > saying is what they asked and stated is not what
> they really mean, and so the writer must ask and
state,
> > "what the writer really means."  You think they
> really mean what they did not ask or state, I guess

     [Platt]
> Their statements and questions were not clear to me.

      ok

     [Platt]
> As said, the 
> burden is on the writer, not the reader to make
> himself clear and to
> respond to questions the reader asks without
> insulting the questioner
> by calling him "morally bereft," "ignorant,"
> "idiotic," and a 
> "patriotic masturbator." Such personal attacks are
> pure evil, as Pirsig 
> has pointed out.

     I'm not going to get tied up in the personal
attacks.  So I'll move on.


> In the context, "Otherwise" means "other than in
> battle." What did you 
> think I meant?

     I thought you meant another example in battle. 
Miscommunications and misunderstandings are becoming
more numerous in this thread.

 
> What comments did I make that you considered
> "weird?" 

     When you avoided their questions, and went
straight into America is better than everybody.  It
seemed as if you took an unquestioned stance, a blind
obedience, in your in-step with American policy, but
hey, I guess the way politics are now-a-days many
preconceptions are in the air about this party and
that party, independent party, green party, etc....


> What personal insults have I been guilty of?

     You said to Arlo as follows:  "It figures. Those
on the left make no moral distinction between the
policies of Bush and the policies of Ahmandinejad." 
     Is Arlo from the left?  Other than this I see no
personal insults.  I have not paid attention to any
personal insults, so, I'm not sure if Arlo or Ian had
made any personal insults towards you, as well.


     [Platt]
> Also, I don't understand 
> the meaning of your next to last sentence. Please
> explain who is "They"

     "They" is personal insults.
 
> and how are personal insults caused by "my
> philosophy is my way of 
> life?"

     This whole personal insulting 'thing' is not
something I have paid attention to, really.  I was
just stating that anybody's philosophy will be their
way of life.  What we think will be in step with how
we behave and express ourselves, that's all.
     As to the Einstein A-bomb story, thank you for
correcting me.  Your right.  A back and forth dialogue
can help clean-up intellectual messes.

Thanks,
SA
 

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