--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ron, I'm really not trying to argue with you or "accuse" > you of anything -- that's how you're reacting. I merely > presented a different way of looking at your experience. > > That you respond to that different way of seeing things > as an accusation says more, IMO, than the experiences.
BTW, this is a standard trap that Barry sets when he feels like putting someone down: He delivers a series of questions that are designed to make them feel they're being accused of something, but are carefully phrased to give him "plausible deniability." Then when the person responds to the accusatory tone, he puts them down for being "defensive" and "reading in" to what he wrote, suggesting that the implied accusations they're objecting to were on target. This enables him to "win," in his own mind at least. <snip> > Parrot. Parakeets, as far as I know, cannot be > taught to repeat phrases. Yes, they can. They aren't as voluble as parrots or as easy to train, but they're known for their talking abilities. > In Santa Fe, New Mexico there is a popular desert > consisting of vanilla ice cream with cayenne pepper > added to it. Wow, a whole desert made of ice cream! How does it stay frozen in the heat? <snip> > I *understand* that many do *not* believe as I do, and > feel (as they have been told to feel) that when one is > enlightened one sees "correctly," or accurately, or > without any possible distortion. Note that when anybody says anything about enlightenment that's different from what Barry believes, it's because they're just parroting what they've been told.
