Earlier a theologian tried writing in Middle English & Latin to intimidate me out of questioning. Didn't work coz I read both. However 1/2
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Sometimes things can't be translated. This wasn't the case here. Both were very simple statements that could be. He was being obscurantist.
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If someone who can explain their point simply chooses not to do so but make it unnecessarily inaccessible, we can know they're dishonest.
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This cld deter a brilliant mathematician, physicist, philosopher who lacked those languages. Not the action of some1 who values truth.
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Its the action of someone who knows their 'field' cannot stand up to scrutiny by intelligent truth-seekers & must be shrouded to survive.
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As one professor of mine in college said: "...the actions of someone who wants to be admired rather than understood."
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I was a bit tempted to riposte in Akkadian.
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