<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016  Dan TheBookMan </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Note: no mention of Mortimer Adler here. I wonder why?</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Maybe because ​</div>Mortimer Adler<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>never produced one bit of original philosophy in his life<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​, or because​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> ​</div>Mortimer Adler<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>was a creationist<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​:</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j17_2/j17_2_80-82.pdf">https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j17_2/j17_2_80-82.pdf</a>​</div> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">​Or maybe because ​<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Mortimer Adler was a creationist </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">who thought that the Catholic church had a right to execute heretics</span><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">​:</div></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420714/posts">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420714/posts</a>​</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I've heard it said that the word</div><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);line-height:18.2px"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​"​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">philosopher" comes from the Greek and means ​</div></span><font color="#545454"><span style="line-height:18.2px">lover of wisdom</span></font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font color="#545454" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18.2px">​, if so then I am a philosopher and I do not love </span></font></div>Mortimer Adler<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ because </div></font><span style="font-size:large">Mortimer Adler<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ was not wise.​</div></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div>