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> Edward Dolan wrote:
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>>
>> Yes, both are true. Therefore, appearances matter. Who we really are is
>> unknown, even to ourselves.
>
> Appearances only matter to fools.
You have so far appeared rather poorly here on these newsgroups.
>> Aristotle was wrong about most things under the sun as was Plato and
>> Socrates.
>
> Actually, that's you.
>
> It was a rediscovery of Aristotle that lead to the Renaissance. Prior
> to that, the Church was all about Plato.
>
> Like I said, I would...but I'm afraid you'd only go postal in a
> bookstore.
>
>> But still they were superior to the Orientals that had existed up
>> to that time
>
> Of course, that all depends on what the Dickens you mean by "superior"
> in this case.
>
> (Don't bother -- it's rhetorical. Was only reminded of a program last
> night on PBS about that Egyptian Pharaoh who believed in one god, and
> how the narrator used the most outlandish superlatives without
> qualification or explanation: "the greatest empire ever," "changed the
> world forever," etc. For your own much-needed information, you'll want
> to remember Oxford don Joseph Needham's eleven-volume "Science and
> Civilization in Ancient China.")
The Ancients were human beings of course, but sufficiently different from us
in their thinking that we need not concern ourselves with them. Even the
Greeks and the Romans were not much better.The only kind of civilization I
care about began with the West at about the time of the Renaissance in
Italy.
>>. It took the Renaissance before man began to think at all
>> logically about things due to the emergence of scientific thinking.
>
> No, the ancient Greeks were already codifying formal logic. And as far
> as the empiricism of scientific thinking, nothing could be done without
> its actual practice, whatever the circumstances of its actual
> codification as theory, so the fact is that it was already
Did you know that Aristotle thought women had fewer teeth in their mouth
than men. It apparently never occurred to him to look inside a woman's mouth
and count the teeth. What do you make of that? So much for logic!
The High Middle Ages were quite innovative in very many technical ways, but
still they lacked scientific thinking. Technology is not science and is
always severely limited in what it can know.
>> Yup, he is Jew all right and a New York Jew too - the worst kind. He and
>> Howard Stern are birds of a feather - liberal and scummy!
>
> Who's "he"? What are you talking about now?
You indicated that you thought Howard Stern was the cat's pajamas in
contradistinction to Rush Limbaugh. Stern is scum and Limbaugh is not. Need
more be said?
>> We will never know will we because you did not include the pertinent
>> passage
>> to which reference was being made.
>
> Never heard of google?
The main thing you need to know about me is that I am the laziest person in
the world. Not only that, but I take great pride in being so lazy.
Therefore, I will NEVER go back and look up anything. It either gets posted
right in the first place or it is lost forever as far as I am concerned.
>> Like all half-educated slobs, you do not
>> know how to edit.
>> [...]
>
> I was rather hoping that you wouldn't forget your own ******** so soon!
Nope, include everything that you want me to respond to and I will. I do not
bother to even remember what I say from one moment to the next. I am too
Great for that. I leave the trifling details of life to my inferiors, and
their numbers are legion.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
