--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> IMO, the > posters here who are able to rise above having to > react angrily when someone portrays them in a diff- > erent way than they see themselves can do so because > they have a basic level of respect for the other > posters, and consider them their equals. "We're all > just seekers here," and all that. In general, those > who become indignant do so because they've been > insulted by someone they consider "lesser" than > themselves.
It's interesting, I have never, even for a second, thought of anyone on this forum--or anywhere else, for that matter--as "lesser" than myself. That concept is just completely foreign to me and always has been, no matter how nastily they have insulted me (or someone else), no matter what kind of falsehoods the other person has told about me (or someone or something else), no matter how blatant the hypocrisy they indulge in. It's curious that "some people" seem to see that kind of thinking in me and others when there's a disagreement of some kind. Especially in a post in which *they* clearly indicate that they believe their own purported egalitarianism makes them superior to those whom they believe perceive others to be inferior.
