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Edmond Wollmann has made "hitlists" of many, many people, all of whom share a similar distinction: they either disagree with his views or criticize his Netcopping. That's all it takes to get on Wollmann's list and for him to begin a campaign of complaints against a user. He has also admitted he will go after people's careers and businesses, and has targetted USENET as a whole. He has also mounted a campaign against websites he does not like, an example is documented here

  1. Mr. Wollmann lists his opponents Full post
  2. "The only thing they won't be able to stand is when I start bringing in their careers and informing their connections of their abuse." Full post
  3. "The only way that they will stop their abuse (since ISPs won't take responsibility for them) is if their abuse is known in the groups where THEIR careers are at stake." Full post
  4. "Stop anonym@pacbell.net and other spammer like sherilyn@demon.net from posting off topic in alt.astrology and alt.astrology.metapsych and I'll consider not bringing usenet to a halt." Full post
  5. "And I will remain here with 500 ISPs if need be and bring usenet down " Full post



From: Edmond Wollmann <arcturian1@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: alt.astrology,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,alt.config
Subject: Robin Dowd, Nick Nicolas, and Jason Barr support anonym's calling a woman with a masters in psychology a "Cum gargling cunt" posts as Proper posting, while they use Pacbell as a bully pulpit to badger astrology, astrologers and try to ruin my businesses and cancel my accounts.
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Lady Nidiffer wrote:

Snip! And I will be here to bring all of you bigots to everyones attention so they can see how lazy, rationalizing, two faced and incompetant you are to do so. I will publish, protest, advertise, and in any way I can prove your predjudice and poor and unfair judgments, and abuse of your positions. The following persons have no knowledge of astrology-0. Therefore much as they might like to, or think they can, they cannot really argue it coherently, but are only neophytes themselves in the position of asking questions. They have demonstrated they are here with negative intentions only to harrass, demean, defame, libel and derogate astrology and astrologers. They all have agendas and bias and therefore cannot render objective opinions. Either killfile them or ignore them. I will update it every so often so as to keep the real astrologers and interested informed of the charlatans. It is they who trigger these posts, not I, it is THEY who trigger complaints. Please help clean up usenet to allow it to be the powerful tool for informational exchange it can be.

I am happy to report much progress since my last post and the list is dwindeling as these troublemakers discover it is not worth it simply to be negative and off topic.

Thanks for your attention.

anonym@pacbell.net- Pacbell Internet is the major abuser at this time, never makes any constructive posts or astrology AT ALL. Pacbell has supported him even though he has sent me unsolicited e-mail on many occasions, violated Pacbell's AUP repeatedly by harassing me and posting off topic PURPOSELY to disrupt, they never returned phone calls to me, abused me on the phone, flatly denied and lied about anonym's abuse and will lose their jobs if I have anything to do with it;

http://public.pacbell.net:8001/dialup/usepolicy.html#news

1)Messages posted to newsgroups must comply with the written charters or FAQs for those newsgroups.

2)You may not post messages for the purpose of threatening, harassing or intimidating others. ^^^^^^^^^^

The same goes for concentric.net-who violates their own stated AUP simply to support "widdershins" so he can call me names and disrupt by posting libelous material off topic in metapsych.

They send me autobot responses while they ignore their users tremendous abuse-all so he can call me a liar and fraud etc. day in and day out;

http://home.concentric.net/support/tos/

13. Member expressly agrees not to use the CNC Service in a manner that is prohibited by any law or regulation or to facilitate the violation of any law or regulation. Member further agrees not to use the Service in a manner that will disrupt third parties' use or enjoyment of the CNC Service or other communications services and outlets. Member acknowledges that prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to, use of the Service to invade the privacy of third parties, impersonation of CNC personnel, transmitting via e-mail, USENET, chat service or the Member's personal web page or site, abusive, profane, libelous, slanderous, threatening or otherwise harassing material and posting material in any USENET or newsgroup that is off-topic according to the charter or other public statement of the USENET or newsgroup. Member also agrees not to use the Service to solicit other members to patronize competing services, not to violate or tamper with the security of the CNC Service or attempt to utilize another member's account name or persona without authorization from that member.

Tom Kerr and prodigy.net will be listed highest for ignoring abuse only second to Pacbell.

Here are the regular abusers at this time in alt.astrology and alt.astrology.metapsych -bigots that NEVER present any arguments and are allowed to disrupt, spam the same derogating messages, and abuse usenet as if they own it-and then bragg about their abuse on top of it;

Dr. Matt University of Michigan

Bob Officer ivn.net

Bill Keesing supernews.com

Taylor Netscum mindspring.com

Paul Schlyter over 4 years

Prem Thomas demon.net

Rick Ellis earthlink.net and ftel.net

Demon.net

Lady Nidiffer abs.net

truth@beauty.com earthlink and sprintlink

PZ myers netaxs.com

dr. digger ptialaska.net

Dr. John digital.net

J White hooked.net

Gary Burnore databasix.com who pacbell supported while he called Marsha a slut and all sorts of names-I guess these ISPs think its real important for him to call people whores all day everyday.

What sort of mentality must one have to believe this is a free speech issue? The only free speech issue is their attempt to thwart intelligent discussion of astrology and psychology. This is GARBAGE, thats all these idiots post and I will stay here to remind the ISPs of their abusers as long as these abusers harass, and defame with their same content messages SPAM-if it takes me years (I have been doing it for two now). These bigots have no intention other than to derogate things they know nothing about. Thanks for your attention. -- Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A. © 1998 Altair Publications, SAN 299-5603 Astrological Consulting http://www.astroconsulting.com/ Artworks http://www.astroconsulting.com/personal/ SDSU http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~wollmann/

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From: Edmond Wollmann <Pleiadian1@worldnett.att.net>
Subject: Re: Goodbye
Date: 23 May 1998 00:00:00 GMT
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Edmond Wollmann wrote:

Follow ups set to alt.astrology

David G. Goggin wrote:

> On Wed, 20 May 1998 20:28:47 -0700, Edmond Wollmann > (w@astroconsulting.com) says in article > <35639F6F.4968@astroconsulting.com>... > > Scot Mc Pherson wrote:

> > > I am leaving. You do nothing except argue. You can't find the good > > > articles and posts. They are the needles in the haystack.

> > > Bye

> > > Scot
> > > Just act rightly, wisdom will follow.

Action is the conviction of belief-that's why I ACT ON MY CONVICTIONS.

> > Well, you are welcome to stay and ignore whatever. I still answer
> > astrology questions, and if others would help me by complaining to these
> > ISPs as I have said before they would have no choice but to remove the
> > abusers. Without help they only get more confident that they can
> > continue to abuse unabated.
> > Thanks

> PMFJI, but you'd have a lot more success if you ignored the spam

You still don't get it? It's not me partner.

> and senseless bickering. By responding, even in a threatening way (or > actually, especially in a threatening way) you guarantee it will > continue. The only thing these folks can't stand is silence.

> Mark my words.

The only thing they won't be able to stand is when I start bringing in their careers and informing their connections of their abuse. They have tried to ruin mine and my credibility here because they are bigots and fear my book. And by the end of the year you will see I was correct-mark my words.

Look at the posts I posted with Lazzwaldo and Rick Ellis businesses (pretty sure of Rick Lazzarini-not so sure about Rick Ellis). Until now they have gone unscathed-that will now change since the ISPs have been protecting them because they have money. I am afraid you are naive. I am a VERY good astrologer, and I don't boldly go where my charting hasn't been. I don't say I will succeed unless I know I will. And I am here to serve by doing this-if it bothers you, ignore it. I am not a coward. Best to you. This is not a flame. -- "I'm not askin for an easy passage, so I hope you'll understand. I'm not after any special treatment-but I wouldn't mind a hand! On a rough ride to heaven. Want to get inside what'll I do? On a rough ride to heaven, want to get inside to be with you." Paul McCartney "Rough Ride" -- Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A. © 1998 Altair Publications, SAN 299-5603 Astrological Consulting http://www.astroconsulting.com/

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From: Edmond Wollmann <wollmann@sdsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Goodbye
Date: 23 May 1998 00:00:00 GMT
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David G. Goggin wrote:

> On Wed, 20 May 1998 20:28:47 -0700, Edmond Wollmann > (w@astroconsulting.com) says in article > <35639F6F.4968@astroconsulting.com >...

> > Scot Mc Pherson wrote:

> > > I am leaving. You do nothing except argue. You can't find the good
> > > articles and posts. They are the needles in the haystack.

> > > Bye

> > > Scot
> > > Just act rightly, wisdom will follow.

Acting rightly may be taking action.

> > Well, you are welcome to stay and ignore whatever. I still answer
> > astrology questions, and if others would help me by complaining to these
> > ISPs as I have said before they would have no choice but to remove the
> > abusers. Without help they only get more confident that they can
> > continue to abuse unabated.
> > Thanks

> PMFJI, but you'd have a lot more success if you ignored the spam
> and senseless bickering. By responding, even in a threatening way (or
> actually, especially in a threatening way) you guarantee it will
> continue. The only thing these folks can't stand is silence.

> Mark my words.

The only thing they won't be able to stand is if someone is trying to ruin their credibility and status in THEIR fields of interest and profession. The only way that they will stop their abuse (since ISPs won't take responsibility for them) is if their abuse is known in the groups where THEIR careers are at stake. They come here and abuse these groups unabated while the groups of their interest are unscathed. Thay are abusing alt.astrology.metapsych day in and day out. You watch, if I crosspost to their groups they will start whining bigtime! Mark my words.

Anonym@pacbell.net, Altair12@mydejanews.com (AKA LazzWaldo-Rick Lazzarini) and Rick Ellis (UU.net and earthlink.net) are the worst abusers of this group and have been here for almost a year now obsessively spamming off topic.

http://www.cinenet.com/~waldo/links.html

http://www.character-shop.com/anteater.html

TCS - TV Appearances - Miscellaneous more like this... URL:http://www.cinenet.com/~waldo/tvmisc.html Summary: Rick explains that he doesn't just make gory things, but cutesy things also, like the Duracell toy commercials. So this Waldo® device integrates it into one operator or as few operators as possible."

Subject: Lots of new links added to Studioguru From: studioguru@earthlink.net (Rick Ellis)
Date: 1998/05/09
Message-ID: <studioguru-0905980020570001 @pool009-max18.mpop2-ca-us.dialup.earthlink.net >
Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro [More Headers] [Subscribe to rec.audio.pro]

I've added lots of new links and articles thanks to the positive responce and suggestions from people on this ng.

Keep 'em coming!

Studioguru: The Pro Audio Resource

www.studioguru.com -- Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A. © 1998 Altair Publications, SAN 299-5603 Astrological Consulting http://www.astroconsulting.com/

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From: Edmond Wollmann <arcturian1@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Usenet] EMP: Kettler spam report, Oct. 1998
Date: 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 GMT
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Jeffery J. Leader wrote:

> Edmond Wollmann <arcturian1@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >I suppose because I am a professional in something you are ignorant of I
> >am kook too?

> I reject the notion of a "professional" astrologer, but that's beside

I reject the notion of "admin" ruling usenet.

> the point. You are a kook for a wide variety of reasons. Please,

And those reasons are son? Because I understand things you have no inkling of?

> stop flooding nanau with your off-topic rants and complaints. They

Stop anonym@pacbell.net and other spammer like sherilyn@demon.net from posting off topic in alt.astrology and alt.astrology.metapsych and I'll consider not bringing usenet to a halt.

> are inappropriate, unwanted, unwarranted, and bizarre. Go spoil some
> other playground. Oh, and try not morphing to avoid killfiles too,
> eh? It's just plain polite.

I'll do whatever I please-you abuseing bigots have taught me the law of the land. Now you are going to get it full force.

> >Do you realize how this will play in court people? That 40
> >or so bigots in one group designed to defame is used to lable people who
> >admins are bigoted against as kooks to censor them and try to remove
> >them from usenet?

> Imbecile.

Idiot. Two can play these games and I'll flame you fuckers off the planet.

> >Forwarded to legal counsel.

> I encourage you to sue me. Is there anything I might be able to
> say--something slanderous, libelous, defaming--that would ensure this?
> Let me know, twit. If it helps, I'm a Scorpio.

I've got the post punk when the time comes I'll gladly include all blithering idiots such as your big mouthed self. -- Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A. © 1998 Altair Publications, SAN 299-5603 Astrological Consulting http://www.astroconsulting.com/ Artworks http://www.astroconsulting.com/personal/ SDSU http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~wollmann/

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From: "Wollmann, Edmond H." <arcturian1@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Is Sherilyn the spinic "losing it" he never had it!!! ("he" is a transvestite)
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Your clients are STILL harassing, STILL spinning, STILL defaming and STILL off topic. And I will remain here with 500 ISPs if need be and bring usenet down until you ISPs find some integrity and take action against these MORE THAN OBVIOUS ABUSERS. Get it?

Sherilyn wrote:

> In article <362b3af6.14786498@news.pcisys.net>, Dan Kettler > <dan@psicounselSPAM_YOT.com> writes

> >"Wollmann, Edmond H." <arcturian1@earthlink.net> wrote:

> >>Sherilyn wrote:

> >>> >He's threatened to rip me a new asshole...

> >He also wrote that he would do it on TV, just like he'd done on
> >USENET.

> Hmmm, this rather begs the question. Even the most blinkered Edmond
> supporter would hardly claim that he had even made a dent on me on
> USENET. His frequent resort to the most disgusting, vile insults is
> surely evidence that he just cannot cut it intellectually. He's just
> not very bright.

Sherilyn seems to be having a bad day and is trying his best to cover up his obvious abuse of usenet and a sense of integrity.

> >Would he want to do physical violence on TV? With witnesses?

> This is a good question. Here is the answer. Edmond speaking about an > insult to a woman, said:

> "if the son of a bitch was in front of me he'd have some
> bones crushed in his skull as well."

IF he was there and IF he didn't retract telling the woman to "fuck herself" for no reason-chivalry is NOT bad sherilyn, but transvestitism IS a disorder.

This was after Gary Burnore convicted sex offender in two states told Marsha to "fuck herself" for absolutely no reason. When I realized the spinics such as sherilyn would see this as a literal threat rather than a hypothetical, I canceled the post, whereon Rick Lazzarini (anonym@pacbell.net who tried to threaten SDSU with a lawsuit if they didn't cancel my account-which they never did by the way) and Gary Burnore dug it out of the cancel bin and reposted it over and over like they are doing again now.

> As a result of this threat, Edmond's provider pulled his posting rights
> and started an investigation.

And because they botched the investigation and were charging me while they left my account in limbo, I have since filed complaints with the public utilities commision and have others pending with the state attorney. *I* then canceled the accounts because they were illegally charging me each month while they denied me access to my own accounts.

> He has since made harassing phone calls
> to the unlisted phone number of an employee of that ISP.

The employee at Pacbell internet gave me the phone number idiot! Perhaps they should fire their employees for giving out numbers they don't want called? Stupid employee then. It was hardly unlisted.

> [rant snipped]

Sherilyn is the transvestite ranter-the rest of us deal with truths and real non-ad hominem arguments. He is a fake transvestite incapable of reasoned arguments and so resorts to ad hominem attacks and futile twisting-not unlike these other spinics on usenet I have soundly defeated with real logic.

A spinic is a bigoted and biased person/group who hides behind the skepticism idea and attempts to belittle a paradigm or area of interest without investigation, knowledge or study of any sort in the paradigm/person that is religiously defamed. The individual or groups then hold dogmatically onto their fallacious refutation despite all discrediting, academic refutation or current/past acceptance by a large majority of the populace.

Their actions betray their stated goals by the malicious defamation despite evidence, and their psychological denial of facts, refutations and evidenced constructiveness of the paradigms they seek to denigrate. Ignored are the rights, dignity, choice or desire for preference of the individuals/groups they seek to destroy through this propagandic spin and defamation.

The indices listed below are real referenced academic areas of accepted knowledge that refutes and describes the fallacious and defective arguments of the typical spinic's attempts to "color" their defamation as "argument" or disagreement.

CYNIC=From the Greek kynikos, -doglike, churlish. Philos. one of a sect of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that pleasure is an evil if sought for its own sake, and made an ostentatious show of contempt for riches and enjoyment.; sneering faultfinder; one who disbelieves in the goodness of human motives, and who is given to displaying his disbelief by sneers and sarcasm-cynicism=the practice of a cynic; a morose contempt of the pleasures and arts in life. Lexicon/Webster

Ig no rant=Deficient of knowledge of either general information or a specific field; uninformed; untaught; unenlightened-ignorance, the state of being ignorant, or of lacking knowledge; the condition of not being cognizant or aware of. Lexicon/Webster..between ignoramus and ignore.

Bigot=a person intolerant of creeds, opinions etc. other than his own. (Webster College Dict.)

Case # 3,539,080 Conclusion-cynical and unable to acknowledge larger frameworks within which fragmented knowledge fits.

Psych-Inferiority, persistent feeling that one does not measure up to societal standards and personal fictional standards. Ego lock on physicality and the belief that only psychic material accessible to egoistic functions is "real." Habitual responses. Inability for holistic cognitions.

Philo-The desire to participate in emotivism and the inability to remove such judgments. Begging the question vicious and cyclic argumentation which denies purposeful existence other than to prove pointlessness. Fear that existence is pointless and construct development to reinforce this conclusion. Pleasure derived from invalidating arguments that inspire and improve the human condition. Inability to understand coherence theory of truth. Inability to understand the pragmatic theory of truth.

Frequently indulges in the logical defect fallacies of;

"Fallacy of suppressed evidence"The requirement of a true premises includes the proviso that the premises not ignore some important piece of evidence that outweighs the presented evidence and entails a very different conclusion. "Red Herring" fallacy="The red herring fallacy is committed when the arguer diverts the attention of the reader by changing the subject to some totally different issue. "Missing the point" another fallacy of relevance-The conclusion of the argument is irrelevant to the premises. "Missing the point illustrates a special form of irrelevance. This fallacy occurs when the premises of an argument support one particular conclusion, but then a different conclusion, often vaguely related to the correct conclusion is drawn. "Begging the question" occurs when an arguer uses some form of phraseology that tends to conceal the questionably true character of a key premise. If the reader or the listener is deceived into thinking that a key premise is true, he or she will accept the argument as sound, when in fact, it may not be. "Appeal to the People" (Argumentum ad Populum) Nearly everyone wants to be loved, esteemed, admired, valued, recog- nized, and accepted by others. The appeal to the people uses these desires to get the reader or listener to accept a conclusion. Two approaches are involved, one of them direct, the other indirect. The direct approach occurs when an arguer, addressing a large group of people, excites the emotions and enthusiasm of the crowd to win acceptance for his conclusion. The objective is to arouse a kind of mob mentality. (the usenet group alt.usenet.kooks is used solely for this defect). Their favorite and highly relied upon one is called "Argument Against the Person" (Argumentum ad Hominem) This fallacy always involves two arguers. One of them advances (either directly or implicitly) a certain argument, and the other then responds by directing his or her attention not to the first person's argument but to the first person himself. When this occurs, the second person is said to commit an argument against the person. Because they will try to discredit THESE accepted delineations, it should be noted these definitions are taken from an academic work used in colleges and Universities, Logic, 4th Edition Hurley, University of San Diego, Wadsworth Publishing, 1991, page 128, "Informal Fallacies".

Sci-Participates in repeated inductive generalizations. Materialism focused and rigid. Believes that because information not cognizable by the ego self, it must not exist, delusional and inability for rigorous investigation prior to conclusions. Projects that "others" are guilty of this.

Conclusion-Perspective alteration necessary. Insists on misery and negativity in order to resist the slightest appearance of a relinquishment of control-which inadvertently reinforces inferiority feelings. Denial. No known remediation at this point. Likelihood of future crisis in perspective great.

Mature individuals can agree to disagree and recognize that often disagreements simply boil down to preferences. There is no one truth, except that the truth is the composition of all truths. Analytical discernment begs for efficiency. I therefore respectfully beg to differ with spinics and offer sincere success in their future search for truths (should they decide to act on their preferences and stop trying to defeat others preferences).

There is no one truth EXCEPT that THE truth is the composition of all truths. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence-it may be a difference in root assumptions.

My particular "Universes of inquiry" are psychology and astrology, I respect all inquiry and the paradigms that articulate them. Paradigms form from sets of beliefs and assumptions. To clarify the idea of paradigms here is a quote from experimentation in abnormal psychology taken from Thomas Kuhn's view, author of the widely acknowledged "The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions"; "We believe every effort should be made to study abnormal behavior according to scientific principles. It should be clear at this point however, that science is NOT a completely objective and certain enterprise. Rather, as we can infer by the comment from Kuhn, subjective factors, as well as limitations in our perspective on the universe, enter into the conduct of scientific enquiry. Central to any application of scientific principles, in Kuhn's view, is the concept of a paradigm, a conceptual framework or approach within which a scientist works. A paradigm according to Kuhn, is a set of basic assumptions that outline the PARTICULAR UNIVERSE OF SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY..." (my emphasis) In addition to injecting inevitable biases into the definition and collection of data, a paradigm may also affect the interpretation of facts. In other words, the meaning or import given to data may depend to a considerable extent on a paradigm. University of Southern California", State University of New York" Davidson and Neale, 6th edition, 1996. Wiley and sons publishers.

"The decision to employ a particular piece of apparatus and to use it in a particular way carries with it an assumption that only certain sorts of circumstances will arise. Normal science research is a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by the professional education. Anomalies are disregarded because they do not articulate the paradigm" (Thomas Kuhn).

Or as Einstein said "It is the theory that determines what we observe."

In short paradigmatical definitions (beliefs) can affect perception. We don't live by logic and facts we live by trust-if you disagree with this premise, provide the factual basis and logical reason and/or purposes for living. If you can't produce any I suggest you stop living because there is no evidence or "facts" available to justify and quantify doing it anymore.

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful" Samuel Johnson

Skeptic=One who doubts the truth of any principle or system of principles or doctrines. Questioning in the search for truth.

Cynic=a sneering faultfinder; one who disbelieves in the goodness of human motives, and who is given to displaying his disbelief by sneers and sarcasm.

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more" William Cowper "The Task bk vi" "The Winter Walk at Noon"

"On Pseudo-Skepticism" -- Marcello Truzzi One of CSICOP's founders exposes his former compeers. http://www.cloud9.net/~patrick/anomalist/pseudo.html "True Disbelievers: Mars Effect Drives Skeptics to Irrationality" -- Rich Kammann http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/kammann.html "CSICOP and the Skeptics: An Overview" -- George Hansen Sociological study of the organization; why they instituted their policy *against* conducting scientific investigations. ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/ufo/csicop-and-skeptic Part 2: ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/ufo/csicop-and-skeptic.2 "Myths of Skepticism" -- Michael Sofka Common misconceptions skeptics have. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/talk/talk.html "The Astronomer Who Abolished Gravity" -- Robert Anton Wilson In Carl Sagan's debunking of Dr. Velikovsky, he omitted one minor factor from his calculations: gravity. http://www.tcp.com/~prime8/raw/trigger3.html "Extraordinary Claim? Move the Goal Posts!" -- Patrick Huyghe How science works, or doesn't. http://www.cloud9.net/~patrick/anomalist/goal.html "CSICOP Scare!" -- Dennis Stacy http://www.cloud9.net/~patrick/anomalist/csicop.html "Robert A. Baker's Unattributed Copying" -- Lippard Copyright violations and plagiarism by a prominent skeptic. http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/Bakerreport.txt "A New Case of Scientific Serendipity?" -- "Diogenes, Jr." (Marcello Truzzi) Satire on Robert Baker's plagiarism. http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/baker-diogenes.html "Response to Martin Gardner's Attack on Reich and Orgone Research in the _Skeptical Inquirer_" -- James DeMeo http://id.mind.net/community/orgonelab/gardner.htm "Zen and the Art of Debunkery" -- Daniel Drasin Satire of typical skeptical manoeuvers. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/pathskep.html "Sceptic's Can't Play Ball" -- Jenny Randles Various misdeeds of the local skeptics. http://www.citadel.co.uk/citadel/eclipse/futura/bufora/times/randles/scept ic.htm "Debunkeritis -- A Partial List" -- Jerome Clark Satire. http://www.ufobbs.com/txt4/3256.ufo -- Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A. © 1998 Altair Publications, SAN 299-5603 Astrological Consulting http://www.astroconsulting.com/ Artworks http://www.astroconsulting.com/personal/ SDSU http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~wollmann/

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