--- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Share1 for this post and other posts below that. > . . . > In a earlier post to Curtis you mention my pastoral > counselor. In that case, I ask the person to comment > on my inner life and offer suggestions. Because she > knows me well and is herself a very balanced person. > I never asked you to be my counselor or even a teacher. > > In the same post you ask me if Curtis has outdone you. > Which is a set up of course. Because the question > itself is based on the presumption, albeit unspoken, > that a contest was happening. I didn't see it that way. > Share
Damned if Share didn't just *nail* it. As I've tried to say before, it's the *presumption* implicit in this thinking that boggles my mind. The assumption / presumption that one has the RIGHT to put themselves in the role of a spiritual teacher / life coach / counselor / whatever for a person who has never *asked* them to do so. That's just such a [imagine the voices of Bill & Ted here] B O G U S thing to do. Add to it the assumption / presumption that they're actually "winning" some imaginary "contest" while doing this, and IMO you've got yerself a veritable sackful of crazy. :-)
