14-07-2009, 10:11 PM
Paul,
I've asked myself -- as I often do -- "What would George Michael say about all this?" The answer is important, I think, and I want to share it with you in the most heartfelt manner.
Your passion is commendable. So too is your willingness to defy convention and search outside the proverbial box for answers to the most vexing of questions.
Throughout my labors in our common vinyard I attempt to bring both of those qualities to the tasks at hand.
The trick, I think, is to be willing to abandon even those most dearly held assumptions if they are legitimately and definitively challenged.
And the challenges must include those arising from within.
My challenges to your hypothesis in this regard are the products of the best I have to offer. I did not reject it out of hand; rather, I subjected it to the most focused and informed critical analyses of which I'm capable.
Try as I might, I neither can discern credible supporting evidence nor avoid the conclusion that the entire scenario was born of an effort to defeat us.
So ... While I respect your courage, I reject your convictions relating to the argument at hand even as I encourage you to reinforce your willingness to stand proud as a minority of one (so to speak).
Charlie
I've asked myself -- as I often do -- "What would George Michael say about all this?" The answer is important, I think, and I want to share it with you in the most heartfelt manner.
Your passion is commendable. So too is your willingness to defy convention and search outside the proverbial box for answers to the most vexing of questions.
Throughout my labors in our common vinyard I attempt to bring both of those qualities to the tasks at hand.
The trick, I think, is to be willing to abandon even those most dearly held assumptions if they are legitimately and definitively challenged.
And the challenges must include those arising from within.
My challenges to your hypothesis in this regard are the products of the best I have to offer. I did not reject it out of hand; rather, I subjected it to the most focused and informed critical analyses of which I'm capable.
Try as I might, I neither can discern credible supporting evidence nor avoid the conclusion that the entire scenario was born of an effort to defeat us.
So ... While I respect your courage, I reject your convictions relating to the argument at hand even as I encourage you to reinforce your willingness to stand proud as a minority of one (so to speak).
Charlie
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene