Official Ramakanta vs. IRM discussion thread

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Posted by Yaduraja on Jan 05, 2006:

 

Dear Ramakanta Prabhu,

PAMHO. AGTSP!

You wrote:

 

> You are evading my question:

> What is the guarantee that you correctly understood Srila Prabhupada?

 

Your question is nothing but a clumsily erected smokescreen to cover the

fact that you have contradicted yourself. Your 'question' could apply to

anyone in the world, including you. You are pushing this question to

distract attention from the fact that you have once again not answered mine:

 

> I meant that I did not write that Srila Prabhupada announced that he would

> stop being diksa guru for ISKCON.

 

You have accidentally missed out the word ‘the’ yet again. It should read:

 

Srila Prabhupada announced that he would stop being *the* diksa guru for

ISKCON.

 

In English this sentence with which I paraphrased your position means

exactly the same as:

 

Srila Prabhupada announced that he would stop being the sole diksa guru for

ISKCON.

 

Which was your statement. Yet you claimed I had made a straw man argument,

and then later said I had attacked a position that was not yours, which is

the same as a straw man argument.

 

But it is your position since it means exactly the same. So you will need to

withdraw your allegation that I attacked a position that was not yours, or

explain what the difference is between the two statements, which will be

tough since they mean the same. I have asked you to do the latter but you

keep on repeating what you did NOT mean, but refuse to tell me what you DID

mean which is different from the sentence I attributed as a summation of

your position.

best wishes

ys

Yadu