Re: Ban all non academic discussions

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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> --- Kishore patnaik <kishorepatnaik09@...>
> wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > I think it is time we maintain some decorum on this
> > group and ban
> > all non academic issues such as abusing others,
> > discussing
> > personalities, questioning the credentials and so
> > on.
> >
> > Let us assume that I post on dating on MBh, saying
> > that the event
> > has occured in 3000 bce, there is not a single post
> > that logically
> > discusses the acceppted main stream thoughts - no
> > one even discusses
> > the language and dating of composition of MBh (which
> > is obviously
> > much much later to the event itself!)
> >
> > Similarly, there is a huge difference between the
> > original Mbh
> > (called Jayam) and the Mbh of today's version,
> > compiled mostly by
> > Ugrasravas,a bard of probably south India. However,
> > linguistically,
> > there is no post discussing the difference.
> >
> > Instead of writing nonsensical rebuttals, which will
> > not take us
> > anywhere, I expect academic rebuttals, which
> > certainly require some
> > kind of patience and hard work on the part of the
> > linguists here. I
> > crave such obligations from my friends here.
> >
> > i am appalled.
> >
> > Kishore patnaik
> >
> If you write something claiming the Mahabharata was
> written 3.000 BCE, then you're guilty of violating the
> non-academic policy --

Non-academic policy of this list which is limited to discussion of
linguistics only. There are other sciences like astronomy and
aracheology and geology that have independently valided the
traditional date.


since the only basis of

> postulating such an idea is irrational blind faith.
> It's like the science of the tooth fairy, nothing to
> it. So lets us be appalled when you violate the rules
> of common sense.

When you make such statments as a linguists you are in fact assuming
that linguistis is the be all and end all of all sciences on earth.
And that violates the rules of common sense.

M. Kelkar

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