> > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I also had quite a lengthy exchange with this 'genius' where much of what I said was scrutinized and insulted, to the point where I will not engage him anymore.
And yet of what I read of that exchange, you never provided a single non-diversionary or dogmatic answer to the one singe quesion that was asked (from various angles): "What support do you have for your statement that al religious and spiritual practices end up in the same place?" Particulary since a lot of current scholarship contradicts this view. Perhaps yuo don't feel comfortable engaging with whoever because yuo are uncomfortable being called to support assertions that you can't support -- taht are simply dogmatic echos in your mind. I followed that exchange with great interest. What was facinating is your great exemplfication of the dogmatic mind. it can't see outside the walls of the dogma. Like a house of mirrors -- it looks expansive, but everything reflects back to the dogma.Its a house of cards in the ari -- to mix analogies. > > > > Fortunately I was exposed to this intellectual doubletalk for years > > earlier in my life, And could it be that you are confusing some trauma of the past with this exchange. Could it be the "confusion"may be similar but the actual structure of the discussion quite different. In reading the fascinating exchange several times, the only double talk, if you want to call it that, I wouldn't, was your constant reverting back to dogma to explain dogma.Sort of a self-referral of dogma. > > and eventually was able to see through it for > > what it was; a desperate attempt of such a person to avoid facing > > what they fear is a volcano of suppressed rage within them, > > compensated instead by a sharp intellect that works overtime on > > equivocating everything. Too bad people can't take Dr. Pete's sage advice to heart (includng Dr Pete, of ALL people): you can dissect and deconsruct and begin to understand your own experiences and motivaions, but you can NEVER do that for another. You have provided a detailed structural analysis of this person's motivations without knowing the first thing about them. I hope we can all agree that this is sheer folly. > > Oddly, the greatest enemy of such a person is their distorted inner > > belief that they are in fact smarter than the rest of us. > > Pathetically, they are just outsmarting themselves. Some might see this as classic projection. Hard to say without knowing you(see above.) But you might ponder that and see if the shoe fits. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he hits you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hemMeA/rbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
