(urth) Oannes

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Tue Mar 20 13:26:21 PDT 2012


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
 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20120320/168a3082/attachment-0004.htm>


More information about the Urth mailing list