Jass Singh
SPNer
- Nov 2, 2005
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My dear Inderjitji
Your apologies for your rudeness are accepted. You seem to want to stick to your guns even though you have been proven wrong. You are only interested in your opinion and not Truth or the SGGS.
It appears that you neither have Ahluwalia’s books nor have read them otherwise you would not call my quote,
You deny being guilty of the fallacy of ad populum (appeal to popularity) by saying:
Neither do you understand the fallacy of appealing to authority for you again commit the same fallacy by listing Ahluwalia’s credentials, of which I am well aware. I have great respect for the man himself but you cannot appeal to his credentials to justify his thesis – that is what this fallacy is about. If you do not understand these basic concepts of philosophy it is obvious that you would drown in the deep concepts discussed in Ahluwalia’s books.
You write that I :
You write:
My dear friend why do you even question the existence of this quote? Once again it is obvious that you neither have Ahluwalia’s books nor have read them otherwise all you have to do is turn to the page and check the quote. And what you have asserted my dear friend, is NOT what he is saying. You are TWISTING & MISPREPRESENTING him. His focus is not “rewriting” but “logic!” He talks about:
Be honest with yourself and step back & try not to be defensive but objective. Your assertions have fallen apart but you still want to lean on them. You have cut the branch on which you sit and do not even know it. It is OK to be wrong & it is OK to be proved wrong, but it is not OK to remain in DENIAL about your errors, fallacies and shortcomings (which are numerous) and keep fighting back with more and more ludicrous assertions. I have nothing against you personally, only your fallacious reasoning. I suggest you take a break and reflect on what I have said instead of lashing back in retaliation without thinking and I suggest you buy Ahluwalia’s books and READ them. God bless.
Jass Singh
Your apologies for your rudeness are accepted. You seem to want to stick to your guns even though you have been proven wrong. You are only interested in your opinion and not Truth or the SGGS.
It appears that you neither have Ahluwalia’s books nor have read them otherwise you would not call my quote,
You are not interested in objectivity. All you have to do if you have the book is turn to page 47 of his book, The Sovereignty of the Sikh Doctrine, where he writes:this makes me howl your twisting things again and sidetracking oh my god you have to get some new material
This is not twisting anything – it’s a direct quote! You are the one who is twisting and misrepresenting Ahluwalia’s thesis/doctrine. Because you do not have any philosophical training then even if you read the book you will not understand what he is talking about because he uses technical philosophical terminology. Since you do not have his books and have never read them & have no understanding of philosophical concepts and categories it is obvious that you do not represent Ahluwalia’s thesis. It is in fact your own manufactured opinions that you are so-calling the Sikh doctrine of Ahluwalia when it is really the Sikh Doctrine according to Dhillon, which neither reflects Ahluwalia’s thesis nor the teachings of the SGGS.“That Sikhism does not claim to be the final revelation of reality accounts for its non-exclusivity…”
Let me give you the full quote:
“That Sikhism does not claim to be the final revelation of reality accounts for its non-exclusivity which is reflected in its pluralistic conception of society…”
You deny being guilty of the fallacy of ad populum (appeal to popularity) by saying:
This response only betrays your utter ignorance of the basic understanding of the fallacy of ad populum (appeal to popularity), inspite of the fact that I defined it. The more you write and try to fight back the more your push yourself into a tight corner from where there is no escape. You seem to hang yourself on your own rope. My dear friend, the majority we are talking about in the context is within the Sikh community not the world community.If I was doing this then surely I am wasting my time the consensus is 2 bilions Christians to 24 million Sikhs
Neither do you understand the fallacy of appealing to authority for you again commit the same fallacy by listing Ahluwalia’s credentials, of which I am well aware. I have great respect for the man himself but you cannot appeal to his credentials to justify his thesis – that is what this fallacy is about. If you do not understand these basic concepts of philosophy it is obvious that you would drown in the deep concepts discussed in Ahluwalia’s books.
You write that I :
When I quote from page10 of Ahluwlia’s book, The Sovereignty of the Sikh Doctrine:go on to twist words again
There has been no conscious system-building attempt at presenting the Sikh doctrine in the form of a logically consistent framework – a gestalt-like organic structure – essential for knitting together Sikh ontology, Sikh ethics, Sikh sociology, Sikh polity, Sikh praxis into a coherent whole.
You write:
What this means if in fact it even exists is that the sikh doctrine is one, all other works have been written about Sikhism and no one has ever tried to rewrite the doctrine and guess what that’s straight from the horses mouth, here some more quotes:
My dear friend why do you even question the existence of this quote? Once again it is obvious that you neither have Ahluwalia’s books nor have read them otherwise all you have to do is turn to the page and check the quote. And what you have asserted my dear friend, is NOT what he is saying. You are TWISTING & MISPREPRESENTING him. His focus is not “rewriting” but “logic!” He talks about:
This declares your statement thata logically consistent framework… a coherent whole.
as utter nonsense! When are you going to muster the intellectual integrity to admit that you are simply wrong? Maybe you need to make a trip to India and meet Dr. Ahluwlia himself instead of TWISTING & MISPREPRESENTING him.logic and reason are annihilated
Be honest with yourself and step back & try not to be defensive but objective. Your assertions have fallen apart but you still want to lean on them. You have cut the branch on which you sit and do not even know it. It is OK to be wrong & it is OK to be proved wrong, but it is not OK to remain in DENIAL about your errors, fallacies and shortcomings (which are numerous) and keep fighting back with more and more ludicrous assertions. I have nothing against you personally, only your fallacious reasoning. I suggest you take a break and reflect on what I have said instead of lashing back in retaliation without thinking and I suggest you buy Ahluwalia’s books and READ them. God bless.
Jass Singh