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Re: A message for Odd Boinker about books.

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On 4/20/2016 11:27 PM, benj wrote:
>
> "You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those
> books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong
> now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years
> from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the
> one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled.
> All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot
> write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he
> is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct."
>
> Ed Leedskalnin  (Kook)

I heartily disagree with Leedskalnin, agree that he is quite the kook, 
and I note that Ed published several books himself and so must not 
consider them as useless as you are interpreting his words to mean.

It is true that SOME books written 25 years ago have PORTIONS of the 
book that are now wrong. MOST books, however, do not have any portions 
that are now wrong. Moreover, even those books that do have those 
portions that need updating are not WHOLLY wrong; they are only wrong in 
portion.

Thus books have value ON THE WHOLE, even though ALL of our knowledge 
base is provisional and it is understood by all that future research may 
change some aspects of it. To say that unless a book is guaranteed to be 
WHOLLY CORRECT for ALL TIME -- that is, containing absolute truth -- 
then it is worthless, well, that's a useless position as far as I'm 
concerned. There is NO source of information anywhere that can carry 
that guarantee, but that's not a reason to reject it on the whole.

-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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A message for Odd Boinker about books. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-04-21 00:27 -0400
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    Re: A message for Odd Boinker about books. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-04-21 11:50 -0400
  Re: A message for Odd Boinker about books. Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 10:42 -0500
    Re: A message for Odd Boinker about books. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-04-21 12:25 -0400
      Re: A message for Odd Boinker about books. Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 11:45 -0500
        Re: A message for Odd Boinker about books. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-04-21 22:14 -0400
          Re: A message for Odd Boinker about books. Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 07:45 -0500

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