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- From: keegan@pan.crd.ge.com (James G Keegan Jr)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Stranded on an Island
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.220220.11389@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 22:02:20 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.163850.5575@acd4.acd.com>
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- Reply-To: james g keegan jr <keegan@crd.ge.com>
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- Disclaimer: i speak for myself only, unless noted otherwise
-
- In article <1992Sep14.163850.5575@acd4.acd.com>
- wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck) writes:
- -> In <1992Sep11.120035.8556@crd.ge.com> keegan@pan.crd.ge.com
- -> (James G Keegan Jr) writes: >
- -> >> did you not speculate, wrongly, i might add,
- -> >> about my motivations and then criticize them in
- -> >> this and related threads?
- ->
- -> I don't think my speculations are/were wrong.
-
- i understand.
-
- -> > did you not argue my motivations with others?
- ->
- -> Susan Garvin and Dean Kaflowitz decided to jump in,
- -> so I responded to them. Was I not supposed to?
-
- i don't think so. you look(ed) pretty silly arguing
- about my motivations with others.
-
- -> > perhaps this just slipped your mind.
- ->
- -> Nope. The only thing I've concluded is that you
- -> don't have enough information to assess Doug's (or
- -> anyone elses) mental status via Usenet
- -> correspondence. And unless you've been holding out
- -> on us, you also lack the background.
-
- i'm not expressing a professional diagnonis. i'm
- expressing an opinion, one which is shared by many.
- haven't i said that to you before?
-
- -> > and mine is that therapy might help the lad(s).
- ->
- -> Help him with what, Jim?
-
- what do you think therapy might help with, bill?
-
- are you not a therapist?
-
- -> >> Many people use therapy as a vehicle for
- -> >> facilitating personal growth, even in the absence
- -> >> of any identifiable pathology. Your comments (re
- -> >> denial) suggest that Doug suffers from some type
- -> >> of disorder, though. I hope you see the
- -> >> difference.
- -> >
- -> > yes, i do. demonstrating one (denial) might cause
- -> > one to suggests that the other (therapy) might be
- -> > of help. if DODie's posts suggest that he might
- -> > suffer from some type of disorder, why have you
- -> > been debating this point for so long
- ->
- -> So, are you about to unveil the basis of your
- -> inference that Doug is in denial? I'm looking
- -> forward to this.
-
- i might, if you'll agree that inferences must
- supported. but that might put you in a difficult
- position of having to support your own.
-
- -> >>> several people posted to explain DODie to you.
- -> >>> and i provided a list of chaney articles and
- -> >>> even offered to email them. they contain all the
- -> >>> information i need to form my opinion.
- -> >
- -> >> I see. What symptoms seemed most prominent to
- -> >> you?
- -> >
- -> > you're the professional, bill. why don't you tell
- -> > me.
- ->
- -> I already have: his posts don't contain enough
- -> information to infer any pathology. You, however,
- -> are contending that there is some pathological
- -> process at work here. It seems reasonable to assume
- -> you have some criteria for your assess- ment. I'm
- -> asking you to provide it.
-
- you're misrepresenting me again, bill, something you've
- been doing quite a lot of lately.
-
- you will be supporting your claim that i am "contending
- that there is some patholigical process at work here,"
- will you not?
-
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