Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00595)

Bhakti Ananda Goswami wrote:
> 
> WHAT ARGUMENT ? WHAT 'STRAW MAN' ? PROPOSTION # 1. BELOW IS A
> STATEMENT OF ASSERTIONS FOUND IN THEOSOPHICAL SOURCES THEMSELVES.

A straw man is when you use an argument that does not exist and is easy
to strike down. Now, of course, you may use word twisting, but, for
example, Blavatsky, in her book The Secret Doctrine (which is a book
about the true basis of the Universe, but not a revelation of it) calls
it a only a small corner of the barest outline. And the Mahatma Letters
are simply answers to questions, based on their own view of The Secret
Doctrine, and even then, they explicitly state that they have not even
verified it for themselves beyond our Solar System. A very far cry from
your statement. And, even if you can find somebody who actually believes
your statement, it is contradicted by the contents of the Mahatma
Letters themselves, which makes your proposition self-contradictory,
and, once again, invalid, making any conclusions drawn from it also
invalid.

> > > THEOSOPHICAL PROPOSITIONS
> > >
> > > 1. THE ONLY TRUE PHILOSOPHY OF THE EARTH, THEOSOPHY IDENTIFIED AS
> > > BUDDHISM, IS FOUND IN THE MAHATMAS' LETTERS, AND THESE LETTERS ARE
> > > THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF ESOTERIC / OCCULT OR HIGHER WISDOM FOR
> > > THEOSOPHISTS. NEXT TO THESE LETTERS, THE "STANZAS OF DYZAN" ARE
> OF
> > > CANONICAL IMPORTANCE TO THEOSOPHISTS.
> >
> > Straw man argument. The rest of your message bcomes
> meaningless.
> >
> > Bart Lidofsky
> 
> 
> 
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/