--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the edification of others, and the further > tweaking of one Judith Stein, a little explana- > tory exposition: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > In the first place, the solar plexus tactic doesn't > > work as you think it does. In the second place, it > > doesn't work because you don't understand what the > > premise of solipsism implies (see above, e.g.). > > Judy has this compulsion about trying to > sound knowledgeable about things she has > no knowledge of. This is one of them. > > She has obviously never studied karate, > and even more obviously has never been > punched in the solar plexus. I have. My > description of what happens is accurate.
Of course it's accurate in terms of what happens *physically*. That wasn't what I was pointing out, but you knew that. Punching a solipsist in the stomach to knock the breath out of them *doesn't "cure" them of their solipsism*, not the kind of solipsism we were talking about, as Jim already explained to you. It's just one more thing that the solipsist has created. <snip> > The instructor would just quietly block all > of their punches and kicks, and wait for an > opening. Then he would throw one punch (the > *only* one he threw in the entire match), and > punch them in the solar plexus. The student > would then collapse in a heap on the floor, > gasping for breath. *While* they were gasping > for breath, the gentle botanist would explain > to them that *that* is what they were poten- > tially doing to other students with their > hot dog attitude, and that if it ever happened > again, they were out of the school forever. And this is what Barry thought he was doing with his "hot dog" psychotic brother, but without the compassion. Out of touch with reality, his brother hurt his father, so Barry hurt his brother back to punish him, to show him how it feels. It just gets worse and worse.
