From: zatavu-AT-excite.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:30:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Lambda and the List


I think Lambda has more than proven his complete lack of worth, let alone is
complete ignorance. Lamarckian evolution? Giraffes have long necks because
they kept stretching them to get more leaves? Lamarckian evolution makes
sense in explaining cultural evolution, but it is pure foolishness in
biology and has been proven wrong definitively. Who still thinks this? How
can one's thinking be stuck in the early 19th Century? And this is just one
thing. He attacks people he doesn't even know, accusing them of being things
when he doesn't know who they are in the first place. He engages in ad
hominem attacks on people who he doesn't even know personally and whose
words he does not even bother to actually read or try to understand. In
fact, his ability to understand, based on his writings I have read to date,
is most clearly in doubt. He makes comments about other
thinkers/philosophers that are nonsense, and he interprets anything he
quotes in such a way that what the writer actually said is lost. Take the
quote he gave about philosophy being nauseous. He mistakes the ideas being
nauseous with the writing itself and the personality of the person being
nauseous. One doesn't have to be a jackass to make philosophy nauseous. In
fact, writing and acting this way only works to obfuscate what you are
trying to say (if anything). Indeed, this is the tactic of those who in fact
have nothing to say. Lambda certainly does not. All he can do is parrot
Nietzsche - and he has only learned to parrot out of context, and only the
bad words (so to speak). In that respect, he is a true parrot, not knowing
what he is saying, but only saying things to get a reaction. I don't talk to
parrots. It is a waste of time. And for that reason, I find it highly
unlikely that, from now on, I will respond to Lambda ever again. Unless, of
course, he does decide to engage in true discourse. There is even a
posibility for Lambda to mature, as hard as it may be to imagine at the
present time. Perhaps I am merely being a naive optimist in hoping this. But
then, I am in good company. Who was a more naive optimist than Nietzsche?

Troy Camplin





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