--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
