[Vision2020] Wedded bliss -- entirely possible without the approval of Greg

[thansen@moscow.com]

It is really quite simple, Mr. Dickison.  One has an extensively violent 
history.  That pretty much nails it.  Don't you think?  Or don't you think?

Tom Hansen


> Dear Melynda:
> 
> Alas, we are not on the same page. I checked my last post, and nowhere
> therein did I take exception to your use of the term "married." Frankly, you
> and Joan can refer to yourselves that way all you want. In my humble
> opinion, neither your wishful thinking, the decrees of courts, or the
> pronouncements of your goddess will make it so. I do not fret about what
> cannot be. I will lose just as much sleep and good humor over you calling
> yourself married - none- as over someone who wants to hold himself out as a
> poached egg.
> 
> But it does seem to matter a great deal to you whether Doug Wilson is a
> historian, a racist, a Nazi-sympathizer, or a willing accomplice of all the
> lynch mobs and white supremecist wingnuts who now live or have ever gone
> before. I'm just wondering why you get the monopoly on the meaning of words
> (or why you get to pick the authorities that determine the historical
> issue). You think you are married, I think you are not. I think Doug is a
> historian and a fine theologian, and you think he's not.
> 
> Where does that get us? What is truth? Who's to say?
> 
> Gregory C. Dickison
> Lawyer & Counselor at Law
> Post Office Box 8846
> 208 South Main #2
> Moscow, Idaho 83843
> (208) 882-4009
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>
> To: <gdickison@moscow.com>; <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wedded bliss -- entirely possible without the
> approval of Greg
> 
> 
> > Dear Greg,
> >
> > We're not on the same page here at all . . .
> >
> > 1.  I promise, I'm not incensed.  Curious, puzzled, bemused--but not
> > incensed.  You, on the other hand, seem a trifle hot under the collar.
> But
> > perhaps I misconstrue your tone.
> >
> > 2.  Good gracious, criticize away.  It doesn't hurt me, and it amuses you,
> > as the Irishman said when his wife began to beat him (a quotation from
> > Charles Dickens--and what a fine time of year this is to re-read *Pickwick
> > Papers*).
> >
> > 3.  Slavery . . . that's where we started.  Slavery.  Let's head back
> there,
> > shall we?  Dulce desipere in loco, and all that, but on the whole, I think
> > the question even of the Revolutionary Mind is more interesting to local
> > citizens than you and I arguing about whether or not you think I'm
> married.
> >
> > And then we could dredge up some interesting social history of, say,
> > pre-Revolutionary France, and then undoubtedly someone could explain why
> > even a thoroughly evil king is better than a Revolutionary Committee, and
> > someone else could have read *The Scarlet Pimpernel,* and the ills of the
> > guillotine could be explored, and someone could point out that Citoyenne
> and
> > Comrade are practically the same title . . .
> >
> > Actually, let's call the whole thing off.
> >
> > Melynda Huskey
> >
> >
> >
> > Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
> > Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
> > Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
> > Cannot bear very much reality.
> > Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot
> >
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