abu Hasan
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i know what angioplasty is and i don't need to prove it to you that i knew it. i have researched this "treatment" on the net long ago and even explained it to others. sure, i am not a doctor; but i regularly read medline and other medical journals on the net. (and now correct me that medline is not a journal; it is a medical encyclopedia...go ahead).
the reason why i had to respond to this, is to show, how easy it is to make errors in writing and how easy it is to misinterpret and misrepresent it.
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what i had written initially was, "after blocked arteries and angioplasty" because i had written anecdotes of some relatives, including one who had lung cancer. prior to posting, i decided not to write about them and merged this phrase with the previous sentence.
sometimes, due to cognitive dissonance, we don't see the obvious and silly mistakes we make.
why am i writing this clarification? i could have ignored this, like the many errors i have made earlier and corrected without the need to explain why it happened in the first place. but i have a point to make:
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some people read a poorly worded sentence in books of kalam and claim that the authors sided with a corrupt aqidah. even if the same authors in the same books (or elsewhere) have stated their own opinion in dozens of places contrary to this ambiguous sentence, these short-sighted people see only this ambiguious statement and are adamant that the writer of that particularly contentious passage/sentence really believed in that error or that they passionately espoused this issue.
a drowning man will clutch at a floating woodchip imagining that it will save him. unfortunately these drowning people refuse the help of those in huge ships, claiming that they will reach the shore hanging on to this woodchip.
al-iyadhu billah.
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