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Recieved: 1999/09/13 03:05
Subject: Re: [K-list] Reactions from the inner 2 yo. ... Melissa
From: Smilingjaguar
On 1999/09/13 03:05, Smilingjaguar posted thus to the K-list:
In a message dated 9/13/99 3:23:30 AM Central Daylight Time,
martinATnospamtucana.demon.co.uk writes:
> 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.
I don't see the need for qualifiers. It seems as though possibly you are
uncomfortable with the strength of belief. That's not his issue. He's got
the courage to put out his thoughts without regret on a list that can
sometimes seem like an ocean full of hungry pirahnas. I respect that.
> Perhaps you're tempted to ask me why I'm so down on certainty. Well, I
> just find it unrealistic and disrespectful, I suppose.
To find one's own truth and hold on to it is an honorable thing. To be able
to share with confidence, but not absolute "this is how it is for everyone"
is greatness. We all talk from our experience. Personally, I take everything
everyone writes here as opinion or conclusion from personal experience, and
subject to be different in us all. That is not to say we cannot learn from
each other, but that we all have different pieces of the puzzle and must
interact to find all of what is.
The need for
> respectfulness is obvious, but the need for realism perhaps less so.
What is realism? To define that, you'd have to define reality, and for that
I wouldn't put out my theories.
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?
But everyone's truth is different...so reality is different for everyone. In
which case, we should all relax and realize that all we write, all we think,
all we say are from our experience and our own quest for truth. In this
there is no need or want for pettiness, or negativity. Perhaps the
negativity is a result of a challenge to a personal block.
> 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...
Now, I'm sorry, but everyone on the net has been guilty of that, and it's not
kind to criticize like this in fromt of 400+ people. I'm one of the worst
offenders on this topic, but my writing and my thoughts come in a
stream-of-consciousness way that isn't always easily translated into proper
grammatical structure.
Kimberly
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