Official Ramakanta vs. IRM discussion thread

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Posted by Yaduraja on Dec 22, 2005:

 

Dear Ramakanta Prabhu,

PAMHO, AGTSP,

 

You wrote:

 

> By "stop being the diksa-guru for ISKCON" I did not mean "stop being the

> sole diksa-guru for ISKCON".

 

In the first phrase the word ‘the’ is singular.

 

Therefore to say ‘sole diksa guru’ or ‘the diksa guru’ in English means the

same thing.

 

If there was more than one diksa guru you would say ‘one of the diksa

gurus’.

 

If there is just one diksa guru, then he is the sole diksa guru, by

definition.

 

So as I say, you contradicted yourself, with all due respect.

 

Therefore it is absurd to claim you have refuted all my points when you

cannot even agree with yourself on what your star evidence actually

‘announces’. And it was also quite unfair to once again claim I had made a

straw man argument, when I did not.

best wishes

Ys

Yadu