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tarvuist ®

06/16/2017, 17:46:03
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Yes.  I see you have a creative spirit, Lesley, and getting it into your writing.  It's tricky when putting it out publicly in highly sensitive arenas with inflammatory and extremely derogatory meaning and intent on your part -- seems to me at very least to require of you openness to any various kind of challenge, polite or crude or whatever, of your thinking and veracity -- especially if your words jump from conclusion to conclusion without seeming connection, as it seemed so a couple times to my feeble mental capacities unable to bridge your gaps and leaps of reasonings.  Not meaning to denounce your thinking process, just possibly your logic in certain instances questioning it.  

One telling instance in all my promptings to sever from Mr. Rawat was when, without naming me, he the all-knowing master, thoroughly denounced my sanity and trustworthiness and said to others of me "talk about the weakest link" of me, suggesting my youthful psychedelic experiences (lsd) had left my brains totally scrambled -- so I completely understand natural defensiveness of one's mental capacity and thinking.  It was perhaps the strongest psychological effort and transformation in my life, years in carrying on my internal defense against his injuring words and opinion of me, an effort probably still going on in my spirit to reject his unfounded opinion and public statement about me (though not naming me as the aim of his denouncement of a crazy premie, he gave utterly to me recognizable clue he was speaking of me and this was his long-term opinion of me).  This after years when he had allowed me to watch over his children, work around his family and home, qualified me as an instructor, and seeming quite comfortable giving me responsibilities personal to himself.   

But one learns from such strong challenges to the psyche.  Discourse and challenge of ideas develops mental acuity, perspicuity, and your smarts in general doesn't it!?

But it seems my aim in life, after achieving ultimate realization of the Knowledge of God has been to go on to become Mr. Smarty Pants, doesn't it?  ...or at least to camouflage my own soft-headedness.  Maybe he was right about that after all.  (See I'm still internally debating somewhat whether I am off my rocker or not, fifteen years later, because of what he said of me not thinking it would get back to me.) But I have come to think that a questioning state of mind, rather than states of certainty, is most often the best route to expansion of thoughtfulness and wider understanding.

Wasn't it that Socrates said something like "I know that I know nothing."  I expect that too has been challenged intelligently by countless who have followed on.  But I think this is the quote:

For my part, as I went away [after an oracle told him he was the wisest of all], I reasoned with regard to myself:  “I am wiser than this human being.  For probably neither of us knows anything noble and good, but he supposes he knows something when he does not know, while I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do.  I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know.”






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