--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > > Tom T; > > > The only thing we have to lose is fear itself. Lose your > > > denial. Lose your fear. Lose your denied anger. Would you > > > rather be loved or do you still insist that you have to be > > > right? Lose the need to be right all the time and see how > > > much love is available here. Tom T. > > > > Exchanging truth for love is a very bad bargain, IMHO. > > Depends on what you mean by each of those terms. For some > subset of definitions, you can't have one without the other.
"Exchanging" wasn't the right term; "sacrificing" would be better. Your comment is closer to the point I was trying to make: If, as Tom urges, you stop standing up for truth because you want to be loved, whatever you get in exchange for the sacrifice of truth isn't going to be worth bubkes.
