--- In [email protected], maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: > > RESPONSE: Don't hit a guy when he's already down, Turquoiseb. Haven't you already said enough, for Christ's sake? I need your counsel, not your cruel truthfulness. You've hit an undefended part of me, OK? And I need to nurse my wounds for a while. Now leave me alone. After this second blow, you've made me a bitter man. Did you know you would have THAT effect on me? Should have stopped after the first knock-down argument, turq. > > By the way, there's no way that you could be wrong. Believe me, your position is unassailable. Even the beautiful first person subjectivity behind it pierced me. > > One thing I DID learn from Maharishi: the aesthetics of irony (although his was more often unstated; but the deep cynicism inside that man's heart, it was a wonder to behold. No one had "attitude" like Maharishi. His inner experience of himself was of the nature of being INCAPABLE of humilityI certainly don't want to follow him in this.but his sense of irony? There he had no peers. But for all that the most magical human being since Christ I believe.) > > Is it time for me to STFU, Turq? >
Dear MZ, This is just an awesome response, I have to say I have totally fallen in love with your sense of irony, loved your earlier expression "maximum sincerity" with maximum irony and how you use irony to protect yourselves. Your comments on Maharishi seem very apt as well though I don't agree with the humility part, my behavior is something similar to that. I can be very humble and playful when listening and interacting with others but rarely do I run it to anyone with whom I can relate to so I can come across as sarcastic and distant. I can clearly see why I am destined to be single :-). Your opinions on "solipsism" are appreciated as well, I never ran in to this word before so I had to read it. Now the word really resonates with what I have felt and continue to feel. I also have been accused of being ironic and sarcastic, but that has been my way to protect myself, I'm a deeply intense person and if I really express myself with "maximum sincerity" very few have the ability to deal with it - so then I continue on in my playful, sarcastic way at work and in my interactions with others. So I'm similar to you in that if I don't think I can be sincere with the other person I operate in the ironic, sarcastic mode. So even if I don't agree with what you say, I'm hoping you stick around and are not offended by people questioning you. I feel we have only seen the surface of you and there's lot that's hidden behind the mask.
