YMDMV
Jul 17, 1997 06:10 AM
by ramadoss
At 03:09 PM 7/16/97 -0400, Jaqtarin Samantha Triele wrote:
>---Theosophical Disclaimer---
>I hereby declare that all statements following this message are NOT
>facts, theories, hypothesi, opinions, declarations, revelations, or
>assumptions based on accurate investigations or unarguable statistics.
>I have not called everyone in the world and asked for their opinions on
>the subjects of which I have made these statements about. I have not
>recieved complete autobiographies from the Earth's population of
>minerals, animals, plants, or humans, and, therefore, any statement
>herein made is only a generality based on my own personal experiences.
>If any statement contains sexist, racist, prejudiced, or any other
>disagreeable material, I apologize profusely. I can only attribute any
>insulting statements to the fact that I am not omniscient. Including
>the above, all statements contained within the following message are not
>judgements. I must repeat this. Including the above, ALL statements
>contained within the following message are NOT JUDGEMENTS. They are
>solely opinions based on the current experiences of my self. Any fact,
>theory, hypothesis, opinion, declaration, revelation, or assumption is
>mine alone, insofar as I know, and is not necessarily a fact, theory,
>hypothesis, opinion, declaration, revelation, or assumption of the
>Theosophical Society, the United States, my family, my friends, my
>next-door neighbor, his dog, the chrysanthemums that were digested by
>his cat the day before yesterday, or any one person or group of people
>which exist in the known or unknown universes or dimensions.
>
>I am not responsible for any misinterpretations, manipulation of
>definition, unintended insight, or "twisting of words" which result from
>the following statement or statements. Unfortunately, once again due to
>my lack of omniscience, I cannot guarantee that any facts, theories,
>hypothesi, opinions, declarations, revelations, or assumptions written
>by myself will be interpreted as they were intended to be.
>
>Any statement or statements made by myself are not intended as attacks
>on any one person or group or classification of peoples, and are also
>not intended as a means of classifying one or more persons. As before
>stated, they are only statements based on my own experiences in the few
>years that I have so far lived, and, therefore should not be interpreted
>as statements which are "written in stone". I apologize if any
>statements I make shall have a negative effect on any person, and, if a
>statement should have such an effect, please remember the first sentence
>of this paragraph.
>---End of Disclaimer---
>
>Due to the content of recent posts, I have found such a disclaimer to be
>necessary. It makes me kind of sad, really, to have to do this.
>Although it appears to be an attempt at humor, it also contains a
>somewhat serious message.
>
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>If anyone can think of anything which might be added to this disclaimer,
>please let me know. This really shouldn't be necessary, but maybe it
>is?
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YMDMV can replace all of the above. I have found it to work.
MK Ramadoss
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