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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Rose,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Thank you for posting this revealing bit of
superstition and ignorance. It brings to mind the times when medical
assistance was provided by barbers and butchers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>That the practitioners at Moscow Medical are
unable to distinguish epistemologically between science and superstition does
not bode well for their patients!!!!! Believing what happens is allegedly
"God's will" because an alleged Adam had either the temerity or the mental
insufficiency to understand the consequences and thus allegedly disobeyed some
alleged god has two problems:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>[1] It is delusional,
unevidenced superstitious nonsense.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>[2] Worst yet from a practical
view, it allows doctors, etc to blame some alleged god for their failures and/or
lack of diligence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>I repost the following in order to remind patient
readers of the problem of postulating/fantasizing causes outside the natural
order and in the realm of speculative superstition:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Just because words can be strung together in an
apparently syntactically correct sentence doesn't mean the sentence has a
comprehensible, literal, testable meaning.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>In your quest for "the truth" you might watch out
for these kind of assertions. Religion, philosophy, politics,
etc. are rife with such statements. These assertions are
generally recognizable <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>by the practical
impossibility of being neither unequivocally confirmable nor falsifiable or for
the establishment of any significant probability of their
truth.</FONT></STRONG> The latter two cases is often especially the
case.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>A parable derived from an example written by an
apostate Catholic disciple of Wittgenstein intended to illustrate the point
of Occam's Razor may be helpful as an illustration to you. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>Neighbors A & B were having an
over-the-back-fence discussion:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: I heard you have a
new kind of powerful watchdog or something.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: Yes, it is called
the Odg.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: What does it
do?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: It watches over us
continually and protects us and our property from harm.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: I haven't seen
anything. Where is it?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: The Odg is
invisible.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: I have heard any
barking or anything.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: The Odg
makes no sound.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: You don't have a
fence. How do you keep the Odg in?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: The Odg stays with
us always. It is the loving nature of the Odg to do so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: Your lawn is
immaculate. I don't see any Odg droppings at all.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: The Odg never
eats. Consequently, it makes no droppings. It doesn't slobber or
have bad breath either.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: Tell me again what
it does.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: It watches over us
and protects us from all harms. It requires only unquestioning belief and
adulation on our part in return.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>A: But wasn't your
home robbed of everything of value, weren't you badly beaten up, and wasn't
your wife taken for and enjoyed a month-long sexual romp by a motorcycle
gang a few months ago?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>B: Yes, but it must
of been good for us, else the Odg would not have let it happen. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>[Also, consider the Tsunami, the
recent hurricane in this context.]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Can you do anagrams?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=DonaldH675@aol.com
href="mailto:DonaldH675@aol.com">DonaldH675@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 18, 2005 11:42
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Moscow Medical
VIsion Statement</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Georgia color=#000000 size=3>
<DIV>Visionaries:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For those of you who believed that disease was caused organically, Drs.
Grauke, Rice, and Brown would like to revisit and re-instruct you on that
issue. (I added the bolding).</DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV>"We recognize that medical care involves more than treating illness and
that man is made in the image of God, having aspects including body, emotions,
spirit, and soul. We endeavor to use the highest standards of scientific
medicine, treating our patients as we ourselves want to be
treated.<BR><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000 size=5>We do not believe that
sickness and death are natural processes, but are rather an enemy of God
introduced into the world through the sin of mankind in Adam.</FONT> Because
of the redemption purchased by Christ, we seek to extend his kingdom through
the ministry of healing.<BR></STRONG><BR><STRONG>We believe all illness has
meaning under the providence of God and seek healing of the whole person
through a right relationship with Christ</STRONG>.<BR><BR>Because of the
sanctity of God's law, we affirm the dignity of human life. We oppose abortion
and euthanasia, and all other attempts to usurp the prerogatives of
God.<BR><BR>We affirm the responsibility toward the poor and needy. We
endeavor to give our time and resources in serving the poor and medically
underserved peoples in our community and around the world. At the same time,
we oppose the idea of medical care as a basic human right."<BR><A
href="http://www.moscowmedical.com/newsite/OurMission.htm">http://www.moscowmedical.com/newsite/OurMission.htm</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Frankly, words fail me. I'm wondering if the use of antibiotics or
anti-viral agents usurp the prerogatives of God? If nothing else
about Christ Church chills the blood of Moscow residents this mission
statement should. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I need hardly add that Dr. John Grauke is a Christ Church member,
sits on the NSA board and has been a regular contributor to Credenda Agenda
over the years. Dr. Rice (and presumably his family) also attend
Christ Church.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Georgia size=3 PTSIZE="12" FAMILY="SERIF">Rose
Huskey</FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 PTSIZE="10"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT>
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