--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you see the difference between "You're trying to > avoid becoming enlightened" and "I perceive that the > way you're going about this is getting in the way of > your enlightenment"?
I know that this question was posed to Jim, but I'll have a shot at it if you don't mind. It seems to me that the only difference between the two statements is phraseology and the speaker's perception of the "adultness" of the person being spoken to. The latter phrasing is the way one would say this to a person you perceive as a child, or as someone who is *likely to* misunderstand and overreact to the more blunt expression of the same thing in the former statement. I suggest that the former statement can be actually seen as being more *complimentary* than the latter, in that the phrasing suggests that the person being spoken to in such a fashion is regarded as an adult and is thus able to handle the truth wthout candy coating. 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/
