--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > With all due respect, and chuckling, if you honestly
> > > > believe that your mind and body and the coordination
> > > > between them are so weak that you would be confused
> > > > by learning to drive on the left, I hope I don't run
> > > > into you when I (a lifetime right-hand driver) am
> > > > driving in England.
> > > >
> > > > Rather bad analogy, dude. :-) :-) :-)
> > > >
> > > > Most people have NO PROBLEM learning both styles
> > > > of driving, and knowing when each is appropriate.
> > > >
> > > > Similarly, most people have NO PROBLEM learning
> > > > different types of spirtual techniques and keeping
> > > > them separate in their minds, without confusion.
> > >
> > > You must have misread the first part of my statement "If I am
> being
> > > taught to drive in the US on the right side of the road, and
> before
> > > I am confident in my skills I take a trip to the UK, and someone
> > > says, hey, I'll teach you to drive on the left..."
> > >
> > > If you ignore my context, then what you have responded with makes
> > > sense. Otherwise it doesn't.
> >
> > A shorter, and more appropriate answer might have been,
> > "You're right...that was a really dumb analogy." :-)
> >
> > In *whatever* context, you are saying that people are
> > too stupid to learn two things at once, and not get
> > the two confused. I give people more credit than that.
> > You are making a case for the Maharishi approach ("Treat
> > them like children"), and I am stating a strong belief
> > that adults can safely be, and should be, treated like
> > adults.
>
> So because Barry disagrees with Jim about whether
> people can successfully learn two skills, one the
> reverse of the other, at once, therefore Jim's
> analogy was really dumb.
>
> Uh-huh. Good thinking there, Barry.
>
Actually, as long as the two skills are VERY different, there's less problem
then when they
are almost the same. and the differences matter tremendously (as is the case
with right-
hand vs left-hand driving or with no effort vs sorta no-effort or whatever).
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