No she's not. We covered Ennis some time ago. She claims that she was ONCE skeptical about homeopathy, but as it turns out, she's fairly gullible and easily mislead.
Old ground. She's been dismissed already. Can't believe you wouldn't know this!
why would I know that & I why would I care? I'm not here arguing for homeopathy, I am here arguing for the third value. The link I provided revealed 13 'anomalies' discovered in recent science. If you know about two being mistaken, there are still 11 on the list.
And when you say "she's been dismissed already" that holds little wieght to me. First, says a bunch of fundamentalist disbelievers, who also have dismissed steorn too I bet. You're acting as if this holds some relative value to the discussion.
I was one of the top chemistry students of my school, and was in the top 10 of the South Florida Chem-A-Thon. My team was the number one team in 1989 or 1990 - I forget which. Though my 'academic scientific background' is minimal, it does actually exist. Point of fact - I do, in fact, conduct experiments on occasion. Mostly for my own gratification, and mostly consisting of at-home experiments to show the kids one scientific principle or another.
High school chemistry awards do not give you the same qualifications of years of rigourous study to get a phd in the matter, so therefore, when you claim arguments scientifically, as in 'this has already been dismissed!" that doesnt hold much value for me, becuase your only arguing your belief system. You yourself did not repeat Ennis experiments, nor did you provide a link to those that did.
Nor is this relevant to the discussion of the third value. The link was merely an ancedotal to relate areas of science requering further research. I hardly find you astute enough to de-value science that suggests something further than your fundamentalist disbelief.
As for 'conducting full moon rituals and pagan mass', why do you keep getting this idea stuck in your head?
Just a funny image, that's why. tryin' to imagine what you look like, ya know.
I'm a Wiccan priest, not a cult leader.
Would not your organization be considered a cult in the classic sense of the word? Is not paganism and wicca reacting many of the mystery cults of Europe?
Yes, on occasion I take part in full moon rituals. I have always loved nights of the full moon. They fire the imagination.
Arr! Verily and Amen, and with pirates glee do we lust and howl and the silver disc!
Pagan mass? No. Followers? Don't have any. I didn't say I was a temple head or a church leader - just a priest.
I see then
The nice thing about being a Wiccan Priest is, you don't really have to 'hold mass' or 'have followers'. Lots of solo practicioners have earned their priesthood as well.
Oh, I get it, a mail order priest.
Actually I've expressed my personal situation here numerous times. I enjoy my irrational, personal, fun beliefs on my own time in my own situation; but I recognize that, when dealing with issues of science, reason, and logic, those beliefs must be set aside as, at best, frivolous, and, at worse, meaningless.
I agree with this, yet those are still your beliefs, and this argument is about the third value, and the relationship of THREE values, i ncluding the personal, in dialectic.
I have provided mathematical and logical reasoning for three values. Three values is a formalized logic, so any argument you have against it is itself illogical and irrational, just like your 'beliefs'.
You, however, have provided nothing regarding any illogical inconsistancy to three values. You claim that three values are meaningless, and then you argue for two values, your 2x2 logic system, which later you tell us doesnt describe TRUTH (nature) either.
I know more about it than you seem to. Cold Fusion was an old subject here what... a year or two ago?
You're way behind the power curve, Rome. Ennis, Homeopathy, Cold Fusion - done and done. Old news.
I think you place a value of intellectual academia here that may not really exist. In case you havent figured it out yet, very very few fundamentalist disbelievers are scientific visionairies, so if you are holding this forum at the standard of the highest rational value to validate your sense of empiricism, then you just have another set of irrational beliefs in addition to your wiccan practice.
Actually, it really doesn't. And referring to me as such is not an ad-hom, no... but HOW you are choosing to refer to me about it is. It has no bearing whatsoever on this discussion.
It DOES have bearing on this discussion, it has profound bearing. It is your belief system, it is that which you hold most personally true. This is the place where we organize our arguments and truths. This is what you think is ILLOGICAL and IRRATIONAL, but that is just because you are sticking it into DUALISM and BIVALENCY, which you are arguing for on this thread.
We are relating three truth values not only logically, but philosophically in this discussion, and you are withholding your philosophy while you are pretending to argue for another.
And that has been exposed, now, let's have a discussion about what YOU BELIEVE to be true, k?
Just an aside - and this is NOT a comment about you, Rome - but I hear this all the time about blacks and gays. Usually it's from someone you KNOW is bigoted - who demonstrates, in very slight ways, their prejudice - but if ever you confront them, they reply in just this form. "I have no problem with gays. I have a gay friend, you know!"
Well, I do have black and gay friends too. I live in Los Angeles, we have about every group one can imagine. We even have AA meetings for Pagans.
I dont have a problem with your belief system, and I dont even think it's irrational like you do, rather, I think that your belief system is composed of 0, 1, and 2 just as much as any other.
