Bronte posts snipped:
When another person's belief is so out of line with our own opinions
and assumptions, it's almost impossible to bend the mind to form an
opening large enough to consider the radical possibility. I try to
bend mine as much as possible. It's let me find a lot of interesting
I remember that joke the way my dad used to tell it. When the little optimist
woke up on his birthday and found a cartload of manure, what did he say?
Answer: 'There's GOT to be a pony here somewhere!' I think that joke was the
1950's version of When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Marek writes snipped:
And he wasn't talking about giving up your individuality or slavishly
following a guru; only that some have experienced that blasting away
of the individual and the realization that I/It -- *Is* -- not even
One but beyond the concepts of 'One' and 'other'. And, if I
Some opinions are are pure speculation, and some opinions can be
about: i) facts that aren't true that they believe are true, i) facts
that aren't true that they know are not true, but express them as
opinions. Perhaps there is not a meaningful distinction here. but I
wanted to
explore it.
If
Hi, New Morning -
You're getting pretty deep here, fella. Interesting point about the holocaust
opinion. I see myself as pretty open-minded, a respecter of opinions not my
own. But I see red when somebody starts telling me they believe the holocaust
never happened. So I guess I do
