> its always all about ego for you Curtis. ego ego ego-- I am he is > they are we think. you need to smoke a lot more dope before i'll > take you seriously. >
Yes the nastiness of Jim in all his glory. I am a professional singer. I don't smoke anything. But nice try. Your understanding of the term "ego" is so wrapped up in your personal philosophical redefinitions that it is not a term that conveys any meaning to me when you use it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > "He seems more detached than Jim." > > > > Exactly. It is a new protected persona of Jim's. It may be to > keep > > his personal name out of this forum, which has a certain wisdom to > it. > > Or it may be because without showing as much of himself > personally he > > thinks he can deliver his POV and receive less challenge. Or he > could > > have become more depersonalized and dissociated. > > > > But the same anti-intellectual position is promoted. The > same "moves" > > made in argument, (peppered with personal digs), and most > importantly > > of all, the same assumptive position as "knower" of absolute > reality. > > Never appealing to quotes from Maharishi's doctrine but speaking > from > > his own authority while winging the details philosophically. Using > > the word "ego" as a pejorative is another tell. > > > > It is Jim without the personal details that made him more likable > and > > human to me. Now we just get pronouncements from the void. It > creeped > > me out at first, now I accept the little game. The question of > whether > > this is a contrived persona bolstered by a conscious change of > some of > > his writing style, or a personality shift is kinda interesting. It > > reminds me of those guys who change their name one day and ask you > to > > call them by their new name. Slightly squirrelly IMO. > > > its always all about ego for you Curtis. ego ego ego-- I am he is > they are we think. you need to smoke a lot more dope before i'll > take you seriously. >
