Hi Steve, Dan's fine with me; I was surprised by his comment though and it was not directed at you IMNSHO. I'm much more concerned with the drift that this is becoming a 'Believer's' forum and that someone who resorts to arcane and unavailable 'proof' such as "calibration" which, note, is used as a weapon as much as a sign of cosmic - and note that - approval of rectitude, is making this his own fiefdom.
If you bother with the list of definitions in the new oxford dictionary, and I haven't yet in this case but I'm familiar with the style, and then observe Boddhi's highly selective usage and his jump from skeptic to '-ism', - again a highly selective and so-illustrated pejorative usage, - you may detect a strong desire to control the conversation and beliefs of others. I do, having been trained in English and rhetoric at the graduate level. I despise it, and though I find all this stuff about dowsing, demons and other disembodied entities interesting, I find Boddhi's use of it to further his control of a clacque disgusting. Well, that's my problem. Take care, Malcolm You can tell English majors by the convolution of their sentences. <g> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 08:42 -0500, Norton, Steve wrote: > Malcolm, > I just want to say that I took no offense at Dan's comment but just > wanted to point out that many of us are skeptics some if the time. I > have a high regard for Dan and consider his posts valuable. I can say > the same for Bodhi, although I may not completely share all his beliefs. > BTW, not sharing all his beliefs does not mean that he is wrong, only > that perhaps I have not yet had the opportunity to develop my own > experiences that would support those beliefs. I have many opinions but I > consider many of them as "opinions du jour". Tomorrow I may learn > something new that causes me to revise my opinion on something. Who > knows? > Best Regards, > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Malcolm [mailto:s...@asis.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 12:07 AM > To: Norton, Steve > Subject: RE: CS>How did we ever get here on this subject? > > Hi Steve, I'd expect you're right, > you are considerably more mild-mannered about this than I feel; it > hasn't been Dan so much as Boddhi who has begun to impose linguistic > correctness upon us; the guy is an egotist and a rhetor. > > Look out!! You Can be Calibrated: "Ve haff vays to Make you Calibrated! > Ziss vill teach you not to be skeptical vit Mee!" > > But no, you're definitely not a Dumb-ass. I think his veneer may be > cracking as he swells, though. . . . > > Your subject-line question, that's truly an interesting one! > > Oh well. > Take care, > Malcolm > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org > > Unsubscribe: > <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subject=unsubscribe> > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
