On 10/18/2014 2:54 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
I don't know about you, Salyavin, but it's difficult for me to imagine
someone whose mind is so weak and whose fear of the unknown is so
profound that they would exchange a belief in that which can never be
proved to exist (because...duh...it doesn't)
>
/This is a clear case of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is
the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds
two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or
information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.
>
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for the far more interesting and fulfilling sense of MYSTERY that is
their birthright.
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/The "mystery" is your "spiritual" path - that apparently has no
"spirits", and your online persona which doesn't seem to be very
spiritual. In fact, most of your activities seem pretty mundane with
just a few exceptions. As pointed out to you in a previous exchange, it
just doesn't make any sense to claim para-normal powers like levitation,
and then to deny in the next message a ///"separate reality/" and quote
Carlos Castaneda. You don't seem to be able to explain yourself very
well. Do you even know what you believe or are you like everyone else
figuring this life out on the fly?
Carlos Castaneda on self-importance and petty tyrants:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg276165.html
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