Official Ramakanta vs. IRM discussion thread

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Dear Yaduraja Prabhu, PAMHO. AGTSP!

 

 

> Ok I got you.

> ...

> Clearly I did not make a straw man argument since you have just made the

> very same assertion.

 

 

I am not sure if you got me. I guess you see no difference between following

two statements:

 

"Srila Prabhupada announced that he will stop being the sole diksa-guru for

ISKCON."

 

"Srila Prabhupada announced that he will stop being diksa-guru for ISKCON."

 

Is it like this? Why?

 

 

> If you withdraw your accusation we can return to arguing over point a)

> again since you have gone back on what I thought we had agreed.

 

To not correctly understand the position of the opponent and then to refute

what you have understood is also refuting a straw man argument. (From

Wikipedia: Present a misrepresentation of the opponent's position, refute

it, and pretend that the opponent's actual position has been refuted.)

 

So you have refuted a straw man argument, unintentionally though. This is

not an accusation, but just a fact.

 

This is what we agreed:

 

Srila Prabhupada was the sole diksa guru for ISKCON from 1966 to 1977.

Srila Prabhupada set things up that way in 1966.

 

Following is unproven:

 

Srila Prabhupada established himself as the sole diksa guru for ISKCON in

1966.

 

 

ys Ramakanta dasa