Re: KRS: Final thoughts

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:24:49 -0400, "Steve Marcus"
<smarcus_spamout_@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:no21c1d944ke1n3g29o5h3tnmseutnc0qv@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:03:08 -0400, "Steve Marcus"
>> <smarcus_spamout_@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:rhivb1dh19um72glc9bvncf4hdt0jqivds@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:30:39 -0400, "Steve Marcus"
>>>> <smarcus_spamout_@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>The accounts of Inventio Fortunata that I have seen suggests it did
>>>>>>>exist, but that it was a collection of stories and favored myths of
>>>>>>>the time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These words will come back to haunt you. :-(
>>>>>
>>>>>The words are not Philip's words. They are the words of the person who
>>>>>wrote the paper that Philip linked.
>>>>
>>>> Please cite the source and quote the relavant parts.
>>>
>>>Why not go to the link and read the words for yourself? It's only 12
>>>pages;
>>>you should be able to manage that much. I'll even re-post the link for
>>>you:
>>>
>>>http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/Places/Mercator%20Article.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I was responding to Philip's statement:
>>
>> "The accounts of Inventio Fortunata that I have seen suggests it did
>> exist, but that it was a collection of stories and favored myths
>> of the time."
>>
>> Those words are not in the document referenced by the URL. They are
>> Philip's words and not to be found in a URL or anywhere else. That's
>> why I was puzzled by your statement "The words are not Philip's
>> words".
>>
>
>And once again, you prove to be either a smartass of the first order, or
>simply lazy (perhaps you didn't read the linked document but simply searched
>it for the string "collection of stories ... of the time"), or you are just
>buck stupid.
>
>This document linked by Philip is entitled "The Mythic Geography of the
>Northern Polar Regions:Inventio fortunata and Buddhist Cosmology", and this
>appears on page 3, where the author gets in to discussing the Inventio:
>
>"Thus the source of this mythical polar geography is a lost work by an
>unknown author of the 14th century. Nonetheless, it is possible to speculate
>about where the author of the Inventio fortunata may have derived this
>geography." The author then goes on to discuss some of the mythic themes
>and stories that may have formed the basis for the Inventio and which are
>reflected on the maps of the day.
>
>So, while all of the following words were obviously written by Philip, ""The
>accounts of Inventio Fortunata that I have seen suggests it did exist, but
>that it was a collection of stories and favored myths of the time."

Listen shyster, of course they were obviously written by Philip. Those
were the words to which I obviously responded. Yet your (now snipped)
response was "The words are not Philip's words. They are the words of
the person who wrote the paper that Philip linked".

I then asked you "Please cite the source and quote the relavant
parts". Rather than do that you just told me to go back and read the
URL. Had you done what I asked, you might have realised the source of
the confusion - but perhaps you did and chose to evade rather than
admit your mistake?

Now that your nose has been rubbed in your own misunderstanding you
resort to several paragraphs of waffle in an attempt to conceal your
error and change the subject.

You are an utterly unhelpful waste of time. Back on ignore.


>those
>before the comma reflect Philip's position (he believes the position taken
>by the author of the article), and the words that follow the comma are a
>short and accurate summary of *the theme discussed by the author of the
>article*. If you don't believe that the words "collection of stories ... of
>the time" are accurate, your quarrel is with the author of the linked
>article linked by Philip (and that author's sources), and not with Philip
>who chooses to believe them. Obviously, you lack the information to rebut
>what the author of the article wrote, and so once again, your squink
>generator has swung into action.
>
>> Eric Stevens
>
>
>Steve




Eric Stevens

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