--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > While I agree with the theory completely, and have > adopted it as one of my New Year's Resolutions, > the skunk smell actually doesn't come from pissing, > but from their sweat glands being squished when they > feel fear. I think that's actually a better metaphor > for what's happening. The fear in this case is the > cognitive dissonance caused by encountering a point > of view that they feel is in conflict with their own. > IMO, the skunks are *attached* to their ideas, and > have so little sense of Self, much less a sense of > comfort with self, that any such cognitive dissonance > is perceived as an *attack*. Thus they react to the > ideas that caused the cognitive dissonace as if the > person who proposed the ideas was an attacker, and > as if they personally had been attacked. It merely > *looks* and *feels* agressive; but it's really a > fear phenomenon. In my opinion, of course...
Unless, of course, the person who proposed the ideas *was* making a personal attack in the course of doing so. E.g.: "You people have *really* been trained to accept the status quo and praise anything labeled 'Vedic,' haven't you? Do you salivate when Maharishi rings a little bell? :-)" This was the attack that began the exchange in question. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
