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Originally Posted by Angela  I'm not the moderator of this particular (I/M) forum, and I'm glad, because I can't be bothered to read all the lengthy exchanges between you and ALG. From what I've seen, it's pretty much the same old stuff all the time. You two sort of remind me of a couple of old guys at the chess park in front of my apartment, who are still arguing about a girl they both courted 25 years ago, and she's dead now. |
My position is very clear in my own mind.
I do not really care about "defeating" John in an argument, or for that matter, anyone else in these forums.
(I am a lawyer by profession. This means that I have no lack of people more intelligent & more interesting than John to argue with, if argument for the sake of argument was what I was looking for.)
I do care about the topic. I think that mind-&-reality explorations are a powerful tool for people to lead more meaningful, more fulfilled and more inspired lives.
I also recognise that many key ideas in the mind-&-reality explorations are counter-intuitive and difficult to grasp, especially for people who have not encountered them before.
However, before they can have a chance to test and explore those key ideas, they may be derailed by people like John. In my opinion, John's post are often false but often superficially plausible, the kind of points most likely to mislead people who have not yet had the chance to explore the topic in depth for themselves.
Therefore, in my opinion (and of course it is merely my opinion) John's posts have a tendency to lead people away from a powerful tool that could have helped them to lead more meaningful, more fulfilled and more inspired lives.
So I often put material in these threads, such that these people at least have a chance to consider the topic from other perspectives.
Quite as simple as that.
For those who do not like the length of my posts, well surely the answer is very simple. Don't read my posts then. There is so much material on these forums - I don't read everything either.