--- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> "Do not critize - critisism is dangerous to immortality." > > > > > > > **** > > > MMY don't clearly believe in this statement himself considering > > how > > > much he has been criticizing people, especially those in leading > > > positions. > > > > > > Here is translation to clear language, what he REALLY might have > > meant, > > > that also reveals the deeper motives in the statement: > > > `Don't criticize me � criticism is dangerous to the immortality of > > the > > > image I have been creating of myself to the world.' > > > > > > Irmeli > > > > There's criticism and then there's criticism. When MMY criticizes > > Bush, I see him as blowing into the conch-shell of political rhetoric > > to mobilize the TM troops to do something. > > > > BTW, an amazing number of Americans, including some Fundamentalist > > Christians, DO believe that GW is a Rakshasha. > > **** > Do you mean, that when somebody is criticizing issues you also feel > critical about, it is then positive? And when somebody is criticizing > assumptions, you have based your way of thinking on, and assumptions > you use as defence against unbearable inner anxiety, then the > criticism is VERY negative. >
Well, of course. > People usually function like this. But human evolution means also at a > certain stage transcending this tendency, and being able to question > once own assumptions. Or at least allowing others to do it. That is > why democracy and the freedom of thought it brings, is so good and > beneficial for our further growth and evolution as societies and also > as individuals. > > Irmeli The USA doesn't have a democracy at the national level. Over 90% of all incumbants get reelected due to the way district lines are drawn. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
