Letters to the Editor 02-09-2005
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Preconceived Notions - Responds To Perry - Future Readers - Hunting Preserve Zoning
Preconceived Notions
Editor, Times-Union:A sound conclusion is reached only after examining relevant facts, and making specific comparisons of assertion. Especially those assertions that are 180 degrees opposite one's own position. Assertions and claims are preconceived notions absent the method of inductive reasoning.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle discovered both deductive and inductive logic. Notice my word is discovered, not invent or create, for reason and logic already existed in the great reservoir of understanding that I've referred to in an earlier letter.
Assertions, claims and notions using deductive method reasoning only utilizes only half of the allotted symmetrical logic. To form an opinion prior to actual knowledge or experience is a foolish thing. I have just a few classic preconceived notions (with rebuttal) to share with the readers.
1. Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. This one's obvious, an absolute lie. Ask inspectors Ritter, Blix and El-baridae.
2. The citizens of Iraq will welcome occupation with open arms. This one's been proven wrong also.
3. Torture is acceptable. Not only is it unacceptable, it's inhumane and against international law and the Geneva Accord.
4. Iraq's elections were free and fair and successful. Any sovereign nation that is occupied by a foreign nation can't be free or successful until the occupation ends.
5. The war on terror is a success. Think about it, the term war on terror is an oxymoron. War is terror. It's like saying the way to put a fire out is to pour fuel on it. Violence breeds violence. Where are the bigger men who break the cycle of violence?
6. The war on drugs is a success. A success for who? The prison industrial complex that gets slave labor from non-violent drug offenders. Hundreds of thousands of free laborers stamping out license plates, road signs, culverts and many other things that are necessary for every state in the nation. Successful for medical laboratories who sell drug testing procedures to job applicants daily. Successful for the broadcast industry who makes millions on anti-drug time slots charged to our government, paid for by the taxpayers. The war on drugs is more profitable than the sales of drugs. And just think the taxpayer picks up the tab.
7. America is a Christian nation. If America is a Christian nation, we must demonstrate Christian principles in our dealings with other nations. Christian principles are just words and symbolisms absent the action of the demonstration. If our deeds don't match our words, then our claim is not valid.
I could quote many other preconceived notions, but in the interest of saving words, I will end this way. Sound conclusions are very important actions. If one can't reach sound conclusions, one can't separate the wheat from the chaff, the treasure from the trash or the useful from the useless. Thanks to the readers. Remember use all of your God-given symmetrical logic.
Gene May
Etna Green
Responds To Perry
Editor, Times-Union:Dear Matt Perry:
Your accomplishments and travels must not have done anything for your social life. Harassing someone you don't know, in a town you used to live in, via the Internet. Amazing. You're "career advancements" must really be "something to write home about." Wait, you never write about your job. How sad.
To Harold, I enjoy reading what you have to write in this column. I hope people never quit harrassing you and you stay witty.
Christina Trueblood
Warsaw
via e-mail
Future Readers
Editor, Times-Union:I just read the Times-Union with the pictures of the babies (Future Readers of the Times-Union). I wish them all the best for a bright future, but I have some doubts. I have heard about some people graduating that couldn't even read their own diploma.
Reality came to life when I was talking with a neighbor boy. On the back bumper of my truck, I have a plate that reads "Disabled American Veterans - Life Member." He asked me what it said. I told him, "You read it!" He said, "I can't read." I said, "I thought you graduated from Tippecanoe Valley High School." He said, "I did, but I can't read."
I thought he was joking, but I found out later, he wasn't.
Allen D. Regenos
Claypool
Hunting Preserve Zoning
Editor, Times-Union:I am writing this letter to disprove the notion that a Deer Hunting Preserve is agricultural. The preserves want you to believe they are farmers and their livestock should be considered the same as cattle.
A farmer's sole reason for having livestock is to generate produce. Produce which can be eaten, drank or worn. If preserves were generating produce, the females would be sought after as much as the bucks, as they are more palatable than bucks to eat.
Furthermore, if deer meat or venison was even a byproduct of hunting preserves, you would not be able to drive by the preserve in Pierceton and see dead deer carcasses in the trash while the heads are saved for trophies. Make no mistake, the preserves are generating a product not produce.
The product is a trophy buck, which is sold for a large profit. As a result of the production of this product, hunting preserves should be accountable to the same restrictions as commercial properties.
The zoning should be commercial, because the business is commercial. Deer Hunting Preserves calling their business agricultural is misleading and incorrect.
Dr. Douglas L. Phillips
Former Pierceton resident
via e-mail
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- Preconceived Notions - Responds To Perry - Future Readers - Hunting Preserve Zoning
Preconceived Notions
Editor, Times-Union:A sound conclusion is reached only after examining relevant facts, and making specific comparisons of assertion. Especially those assertions that are 180 degrees opposite one's own position. Assertions and claims are preconceived notions absent the method of inductive reasoning.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle discovered both deductive and inductive logic. Notice my word is discovered, not invent or create, for reason and logic already existed in the great reservoir of understanding that I've referred to in an earlier letter.
Assertions, claims and notions using deductive method reasoning only utilizes only half of the allotted symmetrical logic. To form an opinion prior to actual knowledge or experience is a foolish thing. I have just a few classic preconceived notions (with rebuttal) to share with the readers.
1. Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. This one's obvious, an absolute lie. Ask inspectors Ritter, Blix and El-baridae.
2. The citizens of Iraq will welcome occupation with open arms. This one's been proven wrong also.
3. Torture is acceptable. Not only is it unacceptable, it's inhumane and against international law and the Geneva Accord.
4. Iraq's elections were free and fair and successful. Any sovereign nation that is occupied by a foreign nation can't be free or successful until the occupation ends.
5. The war on terror is a success. Think about it, the term war on terror is an oxymoron. War is terror. It's like saying the way to put a fire out is to pour fuel on it. Violence breeds violence. Where are the bigger men who break the cycle of violence?
6. The war on drugs is a success. A success for who? The prison industrial complex that gets slave labor from non-violent drug offenders. Hundreds of thousands of free laborers stamping out license plates, road signs, culverts and many other things that are necessary for every state in the nation. Successful for medical laboratories who sell drug testing procedures to job applicants daily. Successful for the broadcast industry who makes millions on anti-drug time slots charged to our government, paid for by the taxpayers. The war on drugs is more profitable than the sales of drugs. And just think the taxpayer picks up the tab.
7. America is a Christian nation. If America is a Christian nation, we must demonstrate Christian principles in our dealings with other nations. Christian principles are just words and symbolisms absent the action of the demonstration. If our deeds don't match our words, then our claim is not valid.
I could quote many other preconceived notions, but in the interest of saving words, I will end this way. Sound conclusions are very important actions. If one can't reach sound conclusions, one can't separate the wheat from the chaff, the treasure from the trash or the useful from the useless. Thanks to the readers. Remember use all of your God-given symmetrical logic.
Gene May
Etna Green
Responds To Perry
Editor, Times-Union:Dear Matt Perry:
Your accomplishments and travels must not have done anything for your social life. Harassing someone you don't know, in a town you used to live in, via the Internet. Amazing. You're "career advancements" must really be "something to write home about." Wait, you never write about your job. How sad.
To Harold, I enjoy reading what you have to write in this column. I hope people never quit harrassing you and you stay witty.
Christina Trueblood
Warsaw
via e-mail
Future Readers
Editor, Times-Union:I just read the Times-Union with the pictures of the babies (Future Readers of the Times-Union). I wish them all the best for a bright future, but I have some doubts. I have heard about some people graduating that couldn't even read their own diploma.
Reality came to life when I was talking with a neighbor boy. On the back bumper of my truck, I have a plate that reads "Disabled American Veterans - Life Member." He asked me what it said. I told him, "You read it!" He said, "I can't read." I said, "I thought you graduated from Tippecanoe Valley High School." He said, "I did, but I can't read."
I thought he was joking, but I found out later, he wasn't.
Allen D. Regenos
Claypool
Hunting Preserve Zoning
Editor, Times-Union:I am writing this letter to disprove the notion that a Deer Hunting Preserve is agricultural. The preserves want you to believe they are farmers and their livestock should be considered the same as cattle.
A farmer's sole reason for having livestock is to generate produce. Produce which can be eaten, drank or worn. If preserves were generating produce, the females would be sought after as much as the bucks, as they are more palatable than bucks to eat.
Furthermore, if deer meat or venison was even a byproduct of hunting preserves, you would not be able to drive by the preserve in Pierceton and see dead deer carcasses in the trash while the heads are saved for trophies. Make no mistake, the preserves are generating a product not produce.
The product is a trophy buck, which is sold for a large profit. As a result of the production of this product, hunting preserves should be accountable to the same restrictions as commercial properties.
The zoning should be commercial, because the business is commercial. Deer Hunting Preserves calling their business agricultural is misleading and incorrect.
Dr. Douglas L. Phillips
Former Pierceton resident
via e-mail
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