No evidence of Alzheimer's!

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box191@iland.net wrote:


> At 12:11 AM 3/31/98 -0800, Farrell Till wrote:

> >TILL

> >You need to learn a bit more about Deism.  This religious philosophy was

> >accepted by many of the so-called founding fathers.





> DICK JONES

> These silly word games you play are meaningless and make you

> out to be a fool. Of course Washington was a Deist. A Deist,

> for your information, believes in God regardless of the words

> used to express that concept. Washington's favorite term for

> God was 'Grand Architect' which is Masonic. Deism is extremely

> close to my own philosophy with God doing nothing after

> Creation.





> TILL

> >You have bragged a bit, so now it's my turn.  If you don't mind, I won't

> >take your advice to learn a bit more of basic English, because I don't need

> >to.  I will be 65 next month, and I am a retired college teacher.  My field

> >was English, so for 30 years, I taught college writing and literature.  One

> >of my literature courses included Revolutionary War literature, so I had to

> >assimilate at least a little bit of information about Deism.  Before

> >beginning my college career, I spent twelve years as a fundamentalist

> >preacher and foreign missionary.  I attended two Bible colleges, received a

> >bachelor's and master's degree from one, did post graduate work at eight

> >different universities, including the Sorbonne in Paris and the University

> >of Nancy (France).





> DICK JONES

> English professors rarely know much if anything about the nature

> of semantics. Are you familiar with Korzybski's axioms? Do you

> understand the implications of E-Prime English? Do you see the

> errors of identity and predication in language?

>

> I happen to have a master's degree in Colonial History acquired

> after I retired in 1988. I'm also a Master Mason who has written

> several scholarly articles in Masonic journals on Washington's

> and other Deists' philosophy which in large part are tied in with

> Freemasonry. I had access to material written by Washington not

> available to the public. I also have BD and DD degrees, was ordained

> by a fundamentalist group in Tennessee and later by a liberal group

> in California. I have two earned doctorates in medicine and law and

> have both studied and taught at more than a dozen universities, all

> in the United States. None of which means diddly squat for either

> of us in the context of this list.

>

> Does the words senility or Alzheimer's ring any bells?

>

> Dick Jones, BA (biology, chemistry, geography, triple major,

> summa cum, Phi Beta Kappa), LLB, MA (Colonial History),

> JD (Implied Contracts), MD, DD

> Physician-Attorney (Retired)



CLAIRE

Dick, how can you say that Farrell Till is "senile" or has Alzheimer's?
Intellectually, he seems to be doing great (I say this even though I rarely
agree with his views). You must really be desperate if you are accusing him of
having Alzheimer's.

What does "senility" mean to you?

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