Be careful, Brett. Your biases are showing.
-Prof. Tim
What I mean to say is someone more intelligent...someone more privy to The
Truth...someone ACTUALLY superior...Not someone who one *considers* to be
superior. Because you are a sell-out to whoever pays your salary, you may
no longer be able to discern the truth. After buying into any and every
philosophy for the sake of getting your ego stroked, it IS difficult to see
what is superior to what (one may think that it is superior, for example, if
the boss says so or if one's friends say so or one's wife gives-up a little
vagina if you say it *this* way one day and *that* way the next. Obviously,
there are those things which are superior to other things (which is why I
suggested that the shaman could be superior and not just equal to). I am
not talking about opinions: I am not a soul-less pagan who accepts that
danger and harm is equal to growth and health just because it is the easier
path or because 9 out of 10 doctors agree. Your ignorance is showing.
Brett
At 09:55 AM 8/12/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
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>> Relatively speaking, the shamanic perspective
>> *could* also be superior to those of the subcultures (and therefore only
>> bizarre from their perspective).
>>
>> I work from the premise that freedom and not control leads to "correct"
>> thinking (that the true shaman is superior and misunderstood--though not
>> from a lack of effort).
>
>I shy away from words like "correct" or "superior" when talking about job
>descriptions. What is "correct" or "superior" for one may be incorrect
>and inferior for another. Is a good chef superior to good accountant? A
>good computer programer superior to a good policeman? And what
>constitutes "correct" thought depends entirely on what it is you're
>thinking about.
>
>Be careful, Brett. Your biases are showing.
>
>-Prof. Tim
>
Returning,
rBERTS%n
Rabble Sonnet Retort
Dentist, n.:
A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls
coins out of one's pockets.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"