Theos-Talk Archives (June 2006 Message tt00221)

Daniel,

Sorry, my only real point is that the book by Schoppenhauer on Eristic is a really interesting book.

I am sure you can understand my viewpoint:  circulating libels. You should know what you published! Take a look at your own book... 

Remember? 

Regards,  Carlos. 









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Data:Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:22:30 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World No, We are Not Trying to Twist Your Sentences

> Carlos,
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> "Getting one sentence and twisting it against another twisted 
> sentence may be funny, but it does not work."
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> But in my post at
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> I was simply trying to clarify your GENERAL statement by
> giving you two SPECIFIC examples and asking you to confirm or
> to deny if your general statement applied to these 2 examples.
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> Why is that twisting anything?
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> I will attempt one more time to get YOUR opinion on the following.
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> If in a future book I write:
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> In the latter part of 1877, H.P.B. told others that she was planning
> to go to the East. She wrote to a Russian correspondent Mr. Aksakov:
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> "We have now a multitude of corresponding fellows in India, and are
> proposing next year to set off for Ceylon and to settle there, as
> headquarters of our society." (A Modern Priestess of Isis, p. 277.)
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> H.P.B. writes about her first book ISIS UNVEILED as follows:
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> "Well, my book has appeared at last. My darling was born last
> Saturday, September 29th, but a week ealier my publisher had sent
> pre-publication copies to the editors of all the papers. I am
> enclosing herewith the review in the New York Herald...." (letter
> by H.P.B. to N.A. Aksakov from V.S. Solovyov's A Modern Priestess of
> Isis (London, 1895).
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> ...If I write the above, would you then say that I am a "slanderer" 
> for considering and using Soloviof (that is, Soloviof's book) as a 
> legitimate source of historical information??
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> In other words, Carlos, in these two examples, I am taking HPB 
> letters from the Solovif book and quoting them and introducing them 
> with "H.P.B. writes..." or "She wrote..."
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> If I do THIS, would you consider me to be a "slanderer"??
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> Daniel
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