--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > On Behalf Of TurquoiseB > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:29 AM > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Thinking and Meditating Can > > Change the > > > Brain > > > > > > All in all, I can only *commend* Rick once again > > > for having started this forum, in which a few of > > > the more open-minded seekers can exchange information > > > and learn from each other. It's just a pain in the > > > ass sometimes when the fanatics -- on either side -- > > > try to dominate it and turn it into a showcase > > > for their rock-solid, immovable belief systems > > > and the damage that's done to their psyches. > > > > Odd comment here, for barry seems to be saying that only if we are > > uncertain of what we believe, and continually questioning > > everything, our psyches are by default damaged. granted this is a > > valid perspective for him, and he clearly enjoys it, but by trying > > to impose it on others, he becomes the fanatic that he is railing > > against. > > I meant that he is saying that only if we are > uncertain of what we believe, and continually questioning > everything, our psyches are by default UNdamaged...
Just a few self-inquiry questions, when and if they arrive on FFL: Who is this 'we' you speak of who are certain of their beliefs? You're not implying that there is a self present to believe these things, are you? If so, does that self change so slowly that it can become convinced that the way it perceives reality *is* reality? I ask because my self (and I have no problems admitting that I have one, even if it *does* change more often than some of the folks here change their underwear) recycles so fast that it doesn't have *time* to become attached to anything long enough to consider it "true" or to form a lasting belief system around it.
