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Re: cultural myths and misery
- To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: cultural myths and misery
- From: "S.K. Harrison" <skh23ca@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:22:10 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <LISTMANAGER-138133-32983-2001.12.07-00.01.30--skh23ca#yahoo.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
> From: "Rex Teague"
> No you haven't quoted my post in full.
A petty issue. What I left out added nothing to
the substance of your post.
> My point was simple, a rebuttal of your
> advocacy of the scientific/rational as the sole
> arbiter of understanding. I believe I correctly
> attributed the following (excerpted here from a
> larger previous quote) to you and not
> Korzybski: "... but you need to provide
> quantitative and verified data to convince
> those of us who don't want to be led around by
> the stupid-ring in our noses." Correct me if I
> was wrong?
In spite of your accusation, I made no sweeping
claim for the sole value of scientific knowledge.
John made a *single* statement that can be
quantified, to which single statement I replied
with my request for data. If I'm to inform my
choices with knowledge--which I can't help but
do, as an independent thinking human being--I
want bona fide evidence, not the isolated
anecdotal musings of some joe on the street, or
even of a lone professor. Read my other posts in
this thread, in Out of Control, and in language,
meaning and nature (or something). Careful
reading will demonstrate that your comment
remains undeserved.
> > I suspect that the measure of your
> > comprehension of my last post stands in
> > inverse proportion to the amount of the
> > Korzybski quote that you didn't chop.
>
> To my original list of Schumacher's "higher
> faculties" I should add charity. 8<]
Spare me your moralisms. Phrasing a point as a
joke does not qualify as an uncharitable
attitude. You failed to understand me in the last
post--and you continue to do so here. Look again.
Sean
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