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That's all you need to know LadyShea. I was responding to Stephen Maturin's attack on Lessans as someone who made up imaginary figures. I did not bring his name up as if he is some kind of authority on the book that you now need to consult.
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Please see below. I don't want to consult Dave
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I still am interested in who these Canadian scientists are/were and why there has been no follow up with them since they seemed to agree with Lessans
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Dave claims to have seen a pavilion at an "Expo in Canada" with a sign reading “Come inside and let us prove scientifically that the eyes are not a sense organ.” Then came back to the US to become "very much involved". That involvement was nothing much, in reality, was it peacegirl?
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He was as involved as he could be at that time, but he had other responsibilities and eventually went off to college. What could he have done anyway when Lessans himself spent thousands of dollars in advertising and couldn't get very far because he was an unknown and not a member of academia?
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Also, I call complete and total bullshit on there ever being a pavilion at an expo in Canada with such a sign. No way anyone else used Lessans exact phrasing "eyes are not a sense organ" and his weird choice of "scientifically", and if they did why didn't he follow up to see if these mysterious people were on the same track he was?
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In Canada, the proof has already been
made a part of a scientific exposition.”
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Who are these Canadian scientists and where is this proof? Really Lessans didn't seek them out? You haven't sought them out yourself peacegirl...scientists who are already inclined to agree with you? That would be a ludicrous choice for you to make!! |
I really don't care if you think this is bullshit or not. Almost everything I say you think is bullshit, so why should I be surprised? Lessans wasn't in the business of following up on every lead that would confirm what he already knew was true. It was a coincidence that this guy happened to go to the expo and saw this display, so when he came back he was even more intrigued. Lessans did call Will Durant when he was working on his first discovery because he was still living at the time. Who are you to say how Lessans should have responded in this situation? You were not there and you have no idea why Lessans did not respond the way you would have expected. Anyway, who are you to determine how someone should have responded? What does this prove LadyShea? You're supposed to be one of the more scientifically inclined, but all you're doing is making wild assertions.
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Someone, whose interest had never been sufficiently aroused to
pursue my discoveries because they sounded ridiculous, was visiting an
exposition in Canada where he saw a sign on one pavilion that read,
“Come inside and let us prove scientifically that the eyes are not a
sense organ.” He was absolutely amazed because he knew when I said
that man does not have five sense organs that I was also referring to
the eyes. When seeing this sign he couldn’t believe it, however, after
convincing himself in Canada that man only has four senses and a
pair of eyes, he became very much involved in my work upon his
return.
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I'll never forget how excited he was when he told us what he saw at the expo. Seeing this sign increased his curiosity, but Lessans had no desire to go on a wild goose chase trying to find out who these people were. He had to stay focused on his writing. He knew that this knowledge was real so it didn't surprise him that sooner or later someone else would discover the same thing. BTW, the wording at the expo was not exactly like Lessans except to say the eyes were not a sense organ. So you're false conclusions that this was made up are being flatly denied.