On Jul 24, 9:51*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"JimmyMac" wrote in message

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On Jul 23, 7:44 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:



"JimmyMac" wrote in message

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On Jul 22, 4:05 am, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
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I stopped learning anything new several decades ago. It must be awful to
be
a student all of your life!
Wise men become wise men by continuing the learning process throughout

their entire life. You have opted for academic stagnation ... an
unfortunate choice.

I knew an academic type who decided to learn a new language at age 70.
Why?
Because he wanted to keep his mind sharp. He died a year later. He would
have been better off contemplating the eternal verities like me instead of
learning a new language which he would never use.
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What we have here is the logical fallacy know as a red herring ...

introducing irrelevant facts or arguments to distract from the
question at hand.

It is a dead-on point. I am saying that it is not worthwhile after a certain
age to bother learning anything new since it will all come to naught anyway.
Learning is for the young when there is time enough for it to be put to good
use. The only one who is NEVER getting the point is yourself!

There is no end to learning if you lived to be a thousand. After a certain
point, wisdom becomes foolishness! It is why intellectuals are universally
held in contempt by the run of mankind. Look at Tom Sherman for instance. He
has educated himself into an idiot! Be careful you do not do the same about
foods and nutrition.
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I trust that you now feel better after you nonsensical rant.

Your pursuit of alternative treatments will keep you mentally occupied and
who knows, you may even hit on something. But the chances are that it will
be a dead end. That is why they remain forever alternative treatments.
What we have here is a logical fallacy know as a non sequitor or

fallacy of stating, as a conclusion, something that does not strictly
follow from a premises. *Many a conventional medical treatment is
literally a "dead end" and that is what gave birth to and popularized
alternative treatments. *Unfortunately, many are quackery that appeal
to the desperate. *I am not interested in alternative treatment, but
rather complimentary means in a holistic approach to the treatment of
my disease. *I guess the subtlety of the none too subtle difference
escaped your attention.

Yes, the subtlety does indeed escape me. It is an alternative to
conventional medical practice and treatment. As long as you are not relying
on it to the exclusion of what is KNOWN, I suppose it will not do any harm.
But it is not KNOWN that it will do any good either.
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Some of the supplemetns I take have proved their worth in clincal
trials, so they are kow to be of benefit.

You probably know more useless information than I know, but all the
pertinent information relating to prostate cancer can be summed up in a
rather small booklet.
In your jaded, opinion based upon what little you know you forgot to

add. *I know more useful information than you do regarding prostate
cancer. *That much has become abundantly clear.

You value your learning too highly. You value that class you took in logic
while at college too highly too.

AND ... You value your own opinion far too highly!!!.

Read the small booklet and you will know all you need
to know. Leave everything else to the medical researchers. If what they
find
out is any good, it will make its way into the booklet.
Saying something is so doesn't make it so, even if you are the ones

saying ... especially if you are the one saying it. * What never
ceases to amaze me is your willingness to prove beyond question what
an incredibly close minded block head you are. *Little booklets are
merely primers produced for people with your abysmal level of
absorption.

Those little booklets will tell the rest of us who are not doctors all we
will ever have to know.

Only if that is what little bit one cares to know.

Sometimes it is all the doctors know too.

Opinion stated as fact.

Always remember, a little learning is a dangerous thing!

With a little learning, you might not be such a close-minded,
opinionated blockhead.
-
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota