(January 15, 2021 at 1:04 pm)Drich Wrote: if you are to judge something, then yes you have to have knowledge/experience of it... <snip>...</snip>
This sort of comment always make me laugh. Apply what you say to Asian grooming gangs, paedophilia, reckless driving et. al.
Is it really so that a valid value judgement cannot be applied without knowledge/experience of the above, for example (particularly the experience?)
I'm not over-awed by free-verse poetry: it's a bit like kids throwing paint at a wall and claiming it's art. I haven't read much, and tried to write even less. How do you quantify/qualify knowledge and experience to know when crap is crap? Who said? How far do you go? Is your judgement better than that of others?
You've justified the bible to yourself: others have studied and can't justify it. And still others have had a sniff and determined the obvious.