--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@...> wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2011, at 3:06 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > > > I, too, thank Curtis for his explanation. I do not > > share his fascination with either the people he gets > > into long-winded discussions with, or with any of > > their ideas, but it's probably good that someone does. > > > > As much as I love Curtis, sometimes I see him as the > > Patron Saint Of The Terminally Self Important. > > I've never understood why Curtis gets into these > insane drama-fests either. But I suppose it fulfills > some need.
I'm going to reply to this a second time, less flippantly this time, because I think your ques- tion is a good one, and I might have some insight into it. In my first forays onto TM-related spiritual chat groups, I entered into many, many, far too many long, insane drama-fests myself. *At the time*, it seemed like fun to me, a kind of intellectual sparring, a way to test one's ever-changing theories of How It All Works against other people. I used to get into equally-long and equally-tedious discussions with Judy, and with Lawson, and with others back on a.m.t. And, at the time, it was FUN. At some point, it stopped being fun for me. I kicked back, looked at all of these discussions, and tried to assess whether either I or anyone I had them with had ever seemed to have learned anything from them, based on their subsequent behavior. I came up with zip. Bupkus. These days I'm more into throwing out ideas and seeing what the response to them is. I don't feel any pressing need to defend these ideas, or to debate them with others. I have no need to present my ideas as superior to others; my strong suspicion is that they are not. While I can understand the joys of "debating" the things one believes, I no longer see value in the practice.
