--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > What you say about Rory's use of language as a ranking > device certainly strikes a resonance with me, but now > that you've brought it up, I can see it in many others > as well. And yes, occasionally in myself. Rarely in you, > for the record.
Barry. You use it *all the time*. It's how you assert your spiritual superiority. You use more of it, more often, than anyone else here--*way* more than Rory--to rank yourself higher and others lower. It's ironic that you mention above about being in the same room with MMY while the "peons" watch on TV. How many times, do you imagine, have you used that one to put me or other TMers down who haven't spent time with MMY? Or the way you rank those who have purportedly "paid their dues" by becoming TM teachers higher than those who haven't? And those are just two of innumerable examples. > And, now that you've brought the subject up, I find > myself appreciating the few here who are *rarely* "more." > They don't seem to need the ranking system. They're > just *fine* with being equals with the people they're > addressing. Sez Barry, ranking people who don't seem to need the ranking system higher than those who do. Ranking so pervades your thinking, Barry, that you don't even see it. It's like water to a fish.
