Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

António Marques · 12 Aug 2010, 23:12 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:12:53 +0100
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
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Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> Tony, crystal clear understanding of the speech of Hierogrammates
>> is  surely a skill to be admired.
>> Tony Ellis: Sanctimony, less so.
>
> Tony, my comment was not sanctimony but meant purely as sarcasm
> though prompted by the perception of sanctimony and condescension on
> your part. Perhaps I misread you and you were not talking down to me
> but actually trying to learn something from our communication. My
> apologies either way.

You probably do not intend it, but your assertions on how your 
hyoptheses have support do not sit well with many. It's not the 
hypotheses themselves, it's both your insistence that they have textual 
support - where most view at bestest a tiny possibility that they aren't 
outright excluded, i.e., they may be possible readings, but not 
certainly the 'supported' ones - and your occasional dropping of wild 
interpretations as if they were obvious and universally accepted. Then 
you don't really like it when you're called on that. That's what comes 
across - at best - as sanctimonius.

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