Oannes

Gerry Quinn · 20 Mar 2012, 20:26 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:26:21 -0000
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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From: Lee Berman 

> > Gerry Quinn: There is no need for me to dwell on the inanity of 
> > drawing the above conclusion about my supposed world view from my 
> > observation that some people have a better grasp of some things than 
> > others do.
 
> Sorry Gerry, I didn't mean to offend you. You have to admit that your choice
> of listing Knowledge of God, Science, Economics and card playing was an 
> interesting collection of activities in a discussion of ranking people's
> knowledge against others.
The examples I picked were merely a more or less random though deliberately disparate group of fields in which it is generally agreed that we have some knowledge, but far from perfect knowledge.


> You seem like a very competitive guy in your dialogue here. You once compared 

> yourself to the scorpion who stings the frog giving him a ride across the river. 
> I took this to mean you took pride in your competitive, combative nature. 
> I didn't know mentioning it would offend you. Apologies again. Many times I 
> have praised your contributions to this board and I still do so.

As I think you well know, I was not referring to myself when I alluded to the scorpion.
- Gerry Quinn
 
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