-- In [email protected], blastedactresses <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > "Replace the word 'Bullshit' with 'Opinion' and by George > > I think you've got it. :-) > > > > At no point have I ever suggested that MZ's rap was BS. I have > > suggested that it's nothing but opinion, and that he seems to be > > reacting badly to that opinion being treated as what it is." > > (RESPONSE: this seems to be the case in many internet discussion boards. > People fabricate dramas and misrepresent them as facts. Said people argue > that "these are not just MY opinions, and proceed to spend all their time > railing against their own words. Such people are fascinated by their own > narratives and can be seen fighting tooth and claw against anyone who > suggests that their sacred heart-felt opinions are not facts, and are not > even close to facts. )
As I suggested in my over-coffee rap this morning, I don't think they can tell the difference between their subjective perceptions/beliefs and facts. If they've spent a lot of time in a spiritual environment in which subjectivity is held to be *synonymous* with fact or truth (like the TM movement and many others), you can hardly blame them. In many cases the entire dogma-set of these organizations is based on "He said," as if He (whoever it was who said it -- live or dead, in person or in some "scripture") saying it was all that it took to turn it from subjective experience/belief INTO fact. Color me not convinced that this is correct. I try to be careful to present anything I write on this forum or any other as what it is, opinion. I sometimes try to suggest to others, who claim that what they believe or what they have subjectively experienced is Truth, that while they might believe this, I am under no obligation to do so. To me whatever they say (and whatever any "authority" they might cite to back them up says) is on the exact same level as what I say -- opinion. Some don't take kindly to this. Some get kinda bent or offended or angry and act out about it, as if pitching a hissy fit will make what they said more fact and less opinion. I'm not convinced it works that way. [http://www.misterkitty.org/shaindle/dramaqn.jpg]
