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 More options May 17 2012, 8:31 pm
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish.moderated
From: cindys <cste...@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 00:31:11 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Thurs, May 17 2012 8:31 pm
Subject: Re: Some Will Be Angry, I'm Just Sad
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On May 17, 5:51 pm, Yisroel Markov <ey.mar...@MUNGiname.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 May 2012 13:09:00 +0000 (UTC), cindys

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> >You have labeled the hiring of cleaning companies and vegetarianism as
> >being "dangerous" (sic) trends and believe at face value faith-based
> >religious claims amongst other things. Personally, I think it's
> >dangerous when a person whose scientific work has the potential to
> >impact on countless people's lives lacks the ability to think
> >critically, cannot follow a line of logic without meandering off the
> >subject, and attempts to pass himself off as an authority about
> >subjects he doesn't know and couldn't possibly know the first thing
> >about. As a scientist, don't you find that dangerous?

> Now this I find unwarranted. IMHO Malcolm is both logical and
> intelligent.

Not that I've seen at all. How is it logical to claim that the torah
is true because it was written on parchment, and therefore the only
possible conclusion is that people must have thought it important? How
is it logical to take at face value anything you read in a book? And
how about this assertion (assertion mind you, not speculation, not
suggestion, but assertion) that companies don't have cleaning people
on staff as company employees because they don't want to see them at
the company Christmas party, or their presence is going to somehow be
damaging to the company's image? And this is not to mention his
assertions regarding how 1950s yeshivos operate. There have been other
things, too, but those are just a few that I can think of off the top
of my head. The bulk of his posts seem to me to be from outer space.

>He also has a knack for looking at things from unusual
> angles. Combined with his coming from a somewhat different cultural
> milieu

He's from the UK and he was working temporarily in Israel. I don't
think this is such a different cultural milieu. There are other
posters on SCJM who live in the UK and/or Israel, and they don't seem
to hold these opinions.

> his observations may seem strange sometimes, sure.

To put it mildly.

>But I think
> that it's very useful, especially for a scientist, to be able to think
> outside the box.

I can't see where there is anything scientific about anything he's
posted at all. Just wild assertions with no proof  to back any of it
up (and phrased in an authoritarian manner, as if there can be no
argument about the correctness of his statement/opinion).
Best regards,
---Cindy S.

 
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