[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[pholden at davtv.com]

SA:

Good post. Your points are well taken. I have nothing to add.

Thanks, Platt



> 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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