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Recieved: 1999/09/13 01:20
Subject: Re: [K-list] Reactions from the inner 2 yo. ... Melissa
From: Martin Thompson
On 1999/09/13 01:20, Martin Thompson posted thus to the K-list:
17:02:18 Sat, 11 Sep 1999
Christopher Wynter at Christopher Wynter <wynterATnospambigpond.com> writes:
> Ps ... where do your reactions come from to what I write ... is
> there some remembering which causes you to re-enact some past
> pattern ... which is triggered by my words ...
>
Actually Christopher, I must say that I get negative emotional reactions
to what you write as well, quite often. I've been studying my reactions
for quite some time!
What triggers it with me is what seems like certainty implicit in much
of what you write: the unrestrained use of the "is of identity;" i.e.,
"x is y," rather than "I believe that x is y," or "x seems like y to
me," or "my research indicates that x is y." The lack of qualifiers
seems to me to implicitly dis anyone else's contrary opinion even before
we've heard it, even though your view may turn out to be more correct.
And in such a complex world, I think it is fair to say that no one is
absolutely correct, so the "is of identity" seems unjustified to me.
What do you think?
Perhaps you're tempted to ask me why I'm so down on certainty. Well, I
just find it unrealistic and disrespectful, I suppose. The need for
respectfulness is obvious, but the need for realism perhaps less so. I
think that this Universe operates using a system of survival of the
fittest, and realism is therefore implicitly demanded by that goal. To
me, realism equates to truth, which I think of as very important for
everybody's spiritual growth (although the left-hand path is always
available too). Maybe that's just a personal foible, or do others feel
the same?
I find your sentence structuring kind of annoying too: all those
ellipses or whatever they're called (...) instead of finishing the
sentences properly, using correct punctuation, or just leaving them out!
However, that's rather a minor thing and I can assume it is a stylistic
feature. I don't need to be a perfectionist these days. Much...
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