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GUEST,Ewan McVicar BS: The True Double Whammy (15) RE: BS: The True Double Whammy 19 May 03


Never believe what you read in print. This is in print. Do not believe it. Therefore believe what you read in print.
Or, to put it another way, all assertions are only that. All precepts tell you more about the teller than the subject.
Or, to put it another way - stop telling me what to believe or not believe. Especially please do not sneer at me for adducing someone else's evidence. {I suddenly doubted if I was using the word adducing correctly, so I looked it up in a very large dictionary. They agree with me. Am I now more correct in my usage? Or just in agreement with the dictionary?]
I have a mind of my own. And I have a name. Nearly everything else is a matter of opinion. If I report what someone else says, that does not mean I accept it.
But I began by questioning the currect meaning of Double Whammy, and was foolish enough to refer to the 'true meaning'. I should of course have said 'older meaning' or some such. A thousand curses upon language, which was I suppose created to convey meaning and thought as well as emotion, but does a most poor job.


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