Re: Making your mind up

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:42:01 -0700, erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/28/24 11:12 PM, Martin Harran wrote:

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:16:38 +0000, *Hemidactylus*
<ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:
 
[...]
 

So I guess you’ve abandoned Teilhard for Sheldrake now. Who next? Deepak
Chopra?

 
What part of "I don't have an opinion either way on Sheldrakes' ideas
and I'm certainly not seeking to defend them" did you not understand?
 
Or have you decided to replace some of our departed brethren and take
on their approach of arguing against something a person *didn't* say
rather than what they did say?
 
 
[...]
 

The main problem with this group is that we don't have nearly as many
cranks and nutters as formerly.  Let's all resolve to be at least
occasionally unreasonable in order to maintain mental muscle tone.

The problem with that idea is that I never tolerated the previous
cranks and nutters making up shit about me so, in order to maintain
the environment, I can't tolerate it from their replacements.