--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > > > Well said. > > > > > > Are you familiar with the expression, "The courage of your > > > convictions." Just curious how you reconcile apparently not > > > having any.:-) > > > > I'm not sure who you are speaking to here. > > > > If to me, I see no problem with anything Rory said. > > It's just as valid a way of seeing things as was > > mine. And far more poetic. I repeat my earlier > > "review" -- Well said. > > > > If to Rory, that's not my business -- is of no real > > import to me. :-) > > Hi, I was writing to you Turq. I guess where I am going with this is > you appear to have set things up in your writings here so that > anytime it is convenient for you to disavow ownership of something, > you do, while on the other hand, when you want to express an opinion > strongly, you do also. Best of both worlds it would seem. However > what I am left with is it looks like you are making the point that > integrity or having the courage of your convictions is merely for > lesser evolved beings who are attached to their illusory small > selves; in other words, patsies or suckers. > > Ownership of our beliefs is not a bad thing, imo. In my experience, > life does not progress without such ownership and such conviction. > Otherwise all I am left with is emptiness. Not the emptiful absence > of manifestation of the Absolute, but truly nothingness, no life. > > So I am curious how you reconcile the ownership, the dedication to, > and hard work towards your values and ideals, while at the same time > saying you have no values or ideals? How do you accomplish > anything? :-)
I think I covered all of this in my earlier reply to larry.potter's posting. To claim that your beliefs equate with truth, you pretty much have to be claiming that your state of consciousness equates with truth. To state that such-and-such belief is one of your "convictions," you have to assume that you will *remain* in the state of consciousness from which that belief appears to be true forever. To assert that this convic- tion is "true" for others, you have to declare that attaining that SOC/POC (or *regressing* to that SOC/POV) would be "better" for them than the SOC/POV they have currently. You may be comfortable doing that. I am not. End of story. Those who are uncomfortable with contradictions are uncomfortable with life.
