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Originally Posted by Angela  -- Also John, with his "my parents warned me that I would waste my life, and in many ways I have so far." Believing that thought actually builds the reality of his life -- his experience really is that in many ways he has wasted his life. John isn't deliberately *using* the LoA the way ALG is; nevertheless he is creating reality in a way that looks to him like The Truth. |
Angela, you talk about being loving and compassionate a fair old bit. If you want a tip on the practice, as opposed to the rhetoric, one thing you can do is refrain from taking people's words and abusing their meaning. Of course, you're free to interpret reality however you wish, and I know how important it is to expand your freedom, and I don't intend to limit it. But a big part of loving (if you are interested it that) is listening to and understanding what other people say, even if you disagree with it.
The strange thing, to me, is that your side of things should uphold different perspectives, allow people their own meanings, especially when they are describing their own experiences, and yet there is this Borg-like assimilation of everything into relativity. There is, in the end, no point in anyone saying anything to you lot, since it has no substance of its own. It is irrelevant. It will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
It's like in the film, The Secret, they quote Winston Churchill: "You create your own universe as you go along". They are lying bastards. He was criticising that view, adding, "…These amusing mental acrobatics are all right to play with. They are perfectly harmless and perfectly useless. I warn my younger readers only to treat them as a game. The metaphysicians will have the last word and defy you to disprove their absurd propositions."
I think I'm realising that that is the fate of all logical thought here. It is irrelevant. It will be assimilated by the circular logic of makebelieve. A while ago, you, Angela, hailed ALG's inconsistency as a good thing. There is no point arguing. Consistency is the basis of argument and reason. Of course, some of you will think, "But that's inflexible. Flexibility is vital, surely...". Ah, logic. You gave up the right to it. Don't you remember? Before you were Borg?