Barry's Baritric-I has opined here many times that everything that can be said is just opinion ... i.e. there is not nor can there be such a thing as truth.
Like writing "there is no such thing as writing" or declaring it is "absolutely true that only relative truth exists", Barry continues to troll forward on FFL with his multiple absurdities. As you have pointed out, Barry is so wrapped in his own subjectivity that the world seems to be his great canvas. This is the very definition of Shankara's "jagan mithya" (the world is only appearance) or Plato's chained cave-dwelling prisoners. Doxa (opinion) represents his desperate wish to affirm his rule over his own world. Because he hates authority, he hates quotes that describe a reality he does not care to share. He probably even believes that the distance between the Earth and Moon changes according to whether he agrees or disagrees with someone about its correct measure. That is why I have included the quote below. Let him have his world. It will eat him soon enough and then later, like a leaf in the wind, he will be engulfed in this one. Lucifer: Not to admit that which exceeds us, and not to wish to exceed oneself: that is in fact the whole program of psychologism, and it is the very definition of Lucifer. The opposite or primordial and normative attitude is: not to think except in reference to that which exceeds us, and to live but for the sake of exceeding oneself; to seek greatness where this is to be found, and not on the plane of the individual and his rebellious pettiness. In order to rejoin true greatness, man must first of all agree to pay the debt of his own pettiness by remaining small on the plane where he cannot help being small; the sense of objective reality, on the one hand, and of the absolute, on the other, does not go without a certain abnegation, and it is this abnegation in fact which allows us to be fully faithful to our human vocation. from Logic and Transcendence, The Contradiction of Relativism by Frithjof Schuon --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: > > The Barry Wright Syndrome > > Barry decides he has a point of view about something—e.g. Puja is trained moodmaking; persons on FFL are all bigoted Monkees Fan Club members. He then asserts that his point of view must be the equivalent of reality. But you see, he never conceives of the responsibility he has to prove this, or at least even try to make his case. No, Barry is a kind of totalitarian of the mind: he insists on the truth of his point of view, without seemingly any capacity or even inclination to convince even himself that what he says is true. > > This is a strange phenomenon; asserting something is the case, but refusing to argue it out as if there is any process [implicit in stating a strong opinion/judgment] whereby one has any obligation to demonstrate the reasonableness much less the truth of one's point of view. It is quite incredible to me. Barry, from within his highly charged emotional reactiveness, dreams up concepts and ideas which then can serve the purpose of expressing his own disillusionment, bitterness, cynicism. Barry feels entitled to say something is a certain way, and he never thinks: I must really experience this is true; or even: do I really believe that reality will somehow, either in the articulation of my point of view, or in the culmination of having expressed it, corroborate this opinion? >
