June 15, 2007

Daniel. J. Shepard

The World Embracing Hope Foundation

Dear Sir 

Thank you for your reply.

Logician: You did not reply to the previous mail, outlining more of your works, and I have to ask myself why? You went straight on to the third mail and put it on the blog. I hope that you have received and read the work called A Respect For All Life, in it you will see just how much we differ. 

Djs: It was an extensive document. I'm still digesting it.

Djs: How can truth be dependent upon ones culture, religion, upbringing, personal experience? Truth to be truth must be truth.

Logician: All truths are time related

Djs: I don’t agree. This is not a case of ‘opinion’ but rather ‘truth’. Truth is truth. The concept that ‘what is truth today is different from what was truth in the past’ does not apply to truth but rather applies to opinions, applies to perceptions, applies to social morals, applies to scientific hypothesis and theory, …

We are fairly, I say fairly, certain ‘two plus two in base ten is four’. We believe this is ‘truth’. It is true today. It was true a thousand years ago. We have confidence it will be true a thousand years from now.

Again I will say it, Truths are not time related.

Djs: Sorry, no literary discretion license here.

Logician: There is always a scope of literary discretion, to say there is not, leads to very negative attributes. If someone has a different version of understanding then they have a different version, nothing more or less. There is nothing wrong with having several interpretations of a piece as long as the” jist” of the message gets through.

Djs: When you use the phrase ‘as long as …’ you forget the other side of the equation, namely: Often the interpreter twists statements into something entirely different than the writer intended. Twisting is sometimes the result of innocent intents but often twisting is intentionally initiated to reinforce the position and opinion of the interpreter.

One may say: Negative and false interpretations are not acceptable. But who is to be the universal judge overseeing all interpretations?

Sorry but again I will say it: ‘… no literary discretion license here.’

Djs: Your interpretations are simply what they are, namely: your interpretations.

Logician: Exactly

To be continued: Part II of III:

Djs: This is not just semantics. There is a definite concept involved here. The concept is one regarding the structure of reality. Damnation implies reality is divided into three regions, the physical, heaven and hell.

Logician: Damnation makes me...