wrote:
>
> on 5/12/06 12:26 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Rick, I don't imagine you'll bother reading this,
> > because you prefer to rest comfortably in your
> > assumptions, but I want it on the record anyway.
>
> I did read it. I just woke up and am going to keep this brief.
> Maybe more later if need be. No one is saying you are totally in
> the wrong and Curtis or anyone else is totally in the right.
Well, yes, that's exactly what they're saying,
actually, including in the email from a "friend"
you just posted.
No one is throwing absolutes at you,
> and if they did, they would probably soften their statements if
> they were pointed out. People, even Barry, have acknowledged your
> good qualities. But there seems to be unanimous consensus about
> your "bad" ones. Someone even went to the trouble of developing a
> web site: http://www.aaskolnick.com/junkyarddog/.
Wow. Iceberg time. Do you have any idea who the
person is who created this Web site, and why they
did so? Have you read any of it?
Oh, never mind. I forgot you don't care what the
*facts* are.
> I have my critics on this forum, and
> when any of them criticizes me I don't brush them off or go
> ballistic trying to defend myself. I feel somewhat chastised and I
> take a moment to reflect on whether their criticism may be true.
Rick, think a minute. Why do you imagine my first post
to Curtis was as cordial as it was? And why did I try
to keep him from provoking an argument with me?
Why do you think I've been cutting short the arguments
Shemp has tried to start with me lately?
Please give this a moment's reflection.
When you've been doing your best to *avoid* the kind
of thing folks have expressed their displeasure at,
and they then accuse you of doing it anyway, it's very
difficult not to speak up and point out that *this*
time they've gotten it wrong. You'd have to be a
masochist, or have very low self-regard, to meekly
take the attacks without objection.
You see me being testy, but what you *don't* see is
all the times when I've refrained from being testy
recently. I've been genuinely trying to refrain more
and more.
That's why I attempted to abort the discussion with
Curtis.
For instance, I realize that I have
> been overly obsessed with the MMY/sex thing and I've done a fair
> amount of soul searching on why that bothers me so much. If
> virtually everyone who cared to comment were repeatedly pointing
> out to me that I had a tendency which seriously annoyed them, I
> think it would result in some reflection.
It did with me, and I've been acting on it. Not
perfectly, but I've been trying.
>
> Why are we on this forum? Why have we been meditating all these
years? We
> realize that our original perspective may be flawed or occluded and
we want
> to clarify it and see things as they really are. That's what
enlightenment
> is, as I understand it. To expend large amounts of time and energy
pointing
> out the flaws of others and demanding that THEY be honest is to
misdirect
> our attention and retard our evolution. To quote Byron Katie, "turn
it
> around." To quote Jesus, "You hypocrite! First remove the beam out
of your
> own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of
your
> brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5)
>
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