Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00225)

Dear Gary,

Your ENTIRE posting can be read at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/36437

But I will focus in this email on what you write in the following 
paragraph:

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Thus far I have observed very astute academic debate coming from you 
in which anything and everything coming from another party is pulled 
apart and used against them regardless of the overall context of 
their letter. Anyone who has been in debate courses, debate 
clubs,and academic circles recognizes those tactics and also 
recognizes that those tactics are utilized to win by making points 
and generally have nothing to do with establishing truth.
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Well, I gather that those "tactics" as your name them are 
somehow "bad" and do not lead to the "truth" or establishing the
"truth".

I simply take one point at a time and I give my views, giving what I 
deem is relevant material, evidence, etc.  If this leads to 
something other than the truth, then I certainly would like to see 
how this occurs.  But without some concrete examples that you may be 
thinking of, it is hard to say anything meaningful in the abstract.

I should point out that it is by those SAME "tactics" {your term not 
mine!) that I have ALSO written material critiquing for example the 
writing of Paul Johnson on the Mahatmas, on Mr. Leadbeater and his 
teachings, etc. etc.

And in those instances, not one ULT student ever wrote me 
complaining.  In fact, those that did applauded my efforts.  For 
example, several years ago in the pages of FOHAT Jerome Wheeler 
apparently recommended my critique of the Johnson book and said when 
persons asked him about Johnson's book(s) he gave them a copy of my 
critique!  I assume he liked my critique...

As far as I know, I have used the same tactics in my other 
critiques. 

See my Johnson critique at:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/johnson.htm

I can say nothing more without more specific examples.

Daniel
http://hpb.cc