Every word written as Yet Another Attack, Yet Another Attempt To Entice
Others On This Forum To Attack Barry ("we all *should*, actually"), and
Yet Another Excuse for why she's terrified to ever try to write
creatively. This is what being a long-term editor *does* to a person.
Either that, or what being a long-term TMer *does* to a person. :-)
Then again, maybe it's just living in New Jersey. :-)
Wouldn't it have been easier to overcome her fears and Just Do It?
--- In [email protected], wrote:
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> I find it fascinating--we all should, actually--that Barry thinks of
writing about spiritual experiences on FFL in terms of a contest with
"winners" and "losers," and believes that such posts should be subject
to critiques by the group.
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> I'd be interested to know if anyone here feels encouraged by this
approach to post their spiritual experiences.
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> I'd also be interested to know if anyone here believes they are
competent to critique such posts (see Barry's three criteria for
judgment below).
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>
>
> And the simple reason is ego, and ego-protectiveness, the very
qualities that *prohibit* and *block* both the having of and the
expression of spiritual experience.
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> If Judy were to declare some experience she once had "spiritual,"
she'd open herself up to people like herself -- "editors." These
strangers get to decide whether 1) the thing she describes could be
described by even one fellow human being as "spiritual," 2) whether she
did a good (or even competent) job of describing the experience, and 3)
whether any of it was worth reading in the first place. Not gonna
happen. She's got too much invested in her imaginary "image" to ever
risk that.
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> Meanwhile, those of us with no real "image" to protect can write
Whatever The Fuck We Want.
>
> All in all, I think we win. :-)
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