Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00063)

-Now you make me interesting
In Dutch there is one book from Idries Shah titled: Wisdom of the 
Fools.
Now I shall look what he means with that!

bye Christina










-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "thalprin" <thalprin@y...> wrote:
> Hey paul,
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" 
<kpauljohnson@y...> 
> wrote:
> > Dear Sufilight,
> > 
> > You wrote:
> > > 
> > > My views are:
> > > 
> > > I just came across the following.
> > > I think the following - clearly false claims 
> > 
> > Clearly? That's one of those words like `obvious' and `self-
> > evident' that people use as if they were objective perceptions 
but 
> > often/usually are really descriptive of subjective judgments.
> 
> 
> You never fail to make me laugh.
> Thanks for the chuckle - very much enjoyed!
> 
> 
> > 
> > - about Idries Shah shows all of us, why Wikipedia is not a valid 
> > tool to use.
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idries_Shah
> > > 
> > I've read all of Shah's works and met his most eminent critic 
James 
> > Moore. The fact that the article shows `clearly' *to you* that 
> > Wikipedia is "not a valid" tool hardly implies that "all of us" 
are 
> > convinced by *your* certainty and clarity that Shah was not an 
> > impostor.
> > 
> > > If Theosophy should be examined by the same superficial method -

> > it wouldn't look good.
> > > 
> > > Madame Blavatsky can be compared here:
> > > http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Blavatsky
> > > 
> > > I think you have gotten the culturally colored picture by now.
> > > 
> > One thing I notice among religious believers as well as political 
> > partisans, but never cease to be amazed by it. Somehow, people 
> > imagine that calling a book or article or author "culturally 
> > colored" or "biased" etc. refutes their facts and interpretations 
> > thereof. But there are no books, authors, or articles which are 
> > *not* culturally colored, biased, etc. So it would serve just as 
> > well as a one-size-fits-all refutation if we were to say "this 
was 
> > written by a human being." 
> > 
> > It would be interesting to see a correction of any of the facts 
> > about Shah presented in the article. No matter how biased the 
> > source and how culturally colored, the facts remain and it would 
be 
> > preferable (to me at least) to see the facts corrected and 
> explained 
> > rather than see the source smeared without any evidence.
> > 
> > (Lest you assume otherwise, I actually like many of Shah's books.)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > Paul