[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-23 Thread Duveyoung
ruthsimplicity wrote: > I, of course, would love to see you levitate and then see what I would think > about it. Most likely I would think you had learned a cool trick. Ruth, Really? Merely a cool trick? WTF? The red-flag aspect of all levitation reports is that the exhibition of such is d

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-21 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I wouldn't. I know that I saw it, whatever it was > that I saw. Hundreds of times. Among groups of > hundreds of other people, who also saw the same > things. > > But does that make what we saw a "fact?" I think > not. It only makes wh

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-18 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > Interestingly, I have *seen* levitation, many times, > > > but I make no assumptions as to whether it can

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > Interestingly, I have *seen* levitation, many times, > > but I make no assumptions as to whether it can be > > done physically. I know only what I and hundreds > > of other pe

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-18 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" wrote: > > > > > > Wouldn't an opinion based on sufficient experience and > > > observation be as good as a fact? > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" wrote: > > > > Wouldn't an opinion based on sufficient experience and > > observation be as good as a fact? > > I don't know about "as good as fact" but sometimes it is > all you can

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-17 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" wrote: > > Wouldn't an opinion based on sufficient experience and observation be as > good as a fact? > I don't know about "as good as fact" but sometimes it is all you can get. For example, lawyers give opinions based the state of the law as ap

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-17 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > So this post is a troll in that I am offering > > > people an opportunity to WEIGH IN on this > > > gener

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > 1. Define "sufficient" experience. Have you > ever seen those consumer-protection TV shows > where they take a car with one fouled spark > plug that would cost $5 to replace to 30 > different auto repair shops and get estimates > from all

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > So this post is a troll in that I am offering > > people an opportunity to WEIGH IN on this > > generalized subject. If you feel like it, WEIGH > > IN and tell us whether you

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-17 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > This post was a troll. > > I could just sit back and see who responds to > it, and how. But instead, for a change, rather > than allowing everyone to project into the post > what they believe my *intent* was in posting it, > I will spell

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief

2009-03-17 Thread TurquoiseB
This post was a troll. I could just sit back and see who responds to it, and how. But instead, for a change, rather than allowing everyone to project into the post what they believe my *intent* was in posting it, I will spell it out for you. It was a troll. It was a "generalized rant" not just ab