Briefly, I'm delighted you've returned. I was feeling guilty, thinking I'd
scared you off. I was writing the post below as you were responding to Curtis,
and yes, there's overlap. Also, for the record, I have Protestant DNA, but I'm
not a practicing Methodist. My family is interesting: Methodist
Summa Wrestling and one more swipe at William of Occam: at_man_and_brahman
poses a question or two for Masked Zebra:
Robin, no one has taken up my suggestion to consider how William of Occam would
treat your story. As you probably know, Occam's Razor says, "Pluralitas non est
ponenda sine necessi
Nice post. I have no specific comments about it, but
wanted to reply so I'd have the opportunity to thank
you for the Golda Meir quote. That's approaching Oscar
Wilde territory.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman"
wrote:
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> Robin, no one has taken up my suggestion to co
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman"
wrote:
...
> If the Vedic gods can bring me a bit of life after the evening
> news, they can otherwise kiss *my* butt. Sometimes, they succeed,
> sometimes not. A meditating friend of mine once told his children
> that, if his head was abo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman"
wrote:
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> ...I look at the early history of Peter's church as one
> focused on accumulation of gold, jewels, and relics
> largely to the exclusion of simple original teachings,
> such as not storing up treasures where moths and rust
Robin, no one has taken up my suggestion to consider how William of Occam would
treat your story. As you probably know, Occam's Razor says, "Pluralitas non est
ponenda sine necessitate; "Plurality should not be posited without necessity."
The simplest solution is the one most likely to be correc