--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > The difference between me and a true believer is that a true > > believer will not accept that others feel differently from the way > > they do, much in the way that you are doing now, ironically. > > That is your defining characteristic of a "TB"? That they will not > accept that others feel differently from the way they do? > > What you propose as a def is such an extreme state. Under your def, > few people in the dooms, or any any group with a strong dogmatic > belief and and subject to substantive groupthink would be true > believers. Are you really suggesting that most /all hard core ru's > don't accept that everyone else in the world does not actually > believes in the ME, that people can fly, the effect of yagyas, etc? > > I hope that is not your transcendental logic. > I should have clarified that to say that "a true believer will not accept that others feel differently from the way they do", *and will njot accept that those others are equal to them, and equally justified in that different world view*. The TB view is often one of superiority over others because the TB sees things they supposedly *really are*. It is fundamentalism.
Oddly enough, on this board I have sometimes seen those challenging the views of another and calling them TBs are in fact manifesting this TB mindset more consistently than those they challenge. Funny stuff.:-)
