Re: Organon allopathy & palliation - was Aphorism 1
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:22 am
Irene, Paul distinguished clearly enough between allopathy and enantiopathy; it is you who decided to make an issue of the word palliation; to treat him with your usual ignorant contempt; and to interpret his reference to Vithoulkas, Roy, and Herscu as a reference to you on the basis that he begins with "Hi Irene".
Choosing always to take insult at statements whose topics are and will always be beyond you, such as Vithoulkas, Roy, and Herscu, does not make you any more in demand or relevant. It makes you look egomanic.
Try reading the words people actually use rather than read into them any possible insult you may dredge out of them, and you may find yourself surprised -- and even capable of learning something (despite your constant haughtiness at any such possibility). You may even begin to notice that wonderful fact that the rest of us already know about you: that, of the seven billion people on the planet, all but an insignificant single one are not you.
John
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“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge, and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively.”
Robert A. Heinlein, “Gulf”, Assignment in Eternity, New English Library, 1971, p. 63.
Choosing always to take insult at statements whose topics are and will always be beyond you, such as Vithoulkas, Roy, and Herscu, does not make you any more in demand or relevant. It makes you look egomanic.
Try reading the words people actually use rather than read into them any possible insult you may dredge out of them, and you may find yourself surprised -- and even capable of learning something (despite your constant haughtiness at any such possibility). You may even begin to notice that wonderful fact that the rest of us already know about you: that, of the seven billion people on the planet, all but an insignificant single one are not you.
John
--
“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge, and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively.”
Robert A. Heinlein, “Gulf”, Assignment in Eternity, New English Library, 1971, p. 63.