--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Hey Steve! > > You studied Julius Caesar with your daughter. What is the essence of this > play's theme? What do you make of the main characters? Like Cassius, like > Brutus.Similarly, you should examine this post by Judy Stein, and consider: > what is the essence of what this person is saying? why is she saying what she > is saying? To what extent can I, by entering fully into the spirit of what > has said, comprehend fully and exactly what is going on here such as to allow > me to compose an existentially and intellectually authentic response? > > This is what neither Barry or Curtis will do. For Curtis, what Judy says here > amounts simply to: How am I going argue against all this so that I am spared > the experience of wondering whether any of it is true or not? You will be > compelled to do the same, Steve. So there can't be any kind of conversation > between us until you see that in approaching what Judy Stein has written > here, you must try to get a hold of the entirety of the truth of what is > getting expressedas if, to repeat, you were examining a play, and your > daughter was assigned the exercise of trying to determinefrom an outsider's > perspectivewho is right, how much they are right, who is wrong, to what > extent are they wrong and so on. > > In other words, Steve, you must look at this post of Judy's and mortify all > your subjective compulsions to want to see it the way it can serve your own > needs, your own conditioned expectations, your own way of having life add > itself up to you consistent with your own self-determined predilections. > > There is after all a 'truth' in an disagreement like the one between Judy and > Curtis. You are singularly incapable of stepping back and contemplating what > that truth is independent of your violent and reflexive reactions to Judyand > your, because of your experience in being scrutinized by Judy in the past, > strong bias towards wanting her opponent Curtis to triumph, to be your hero > in this. > > I don't let my predisposition one way or the other affect or influence the > way I read Judy's post here. For all I know Judy could be full of shit. And > Curtis the perfect martyr. But when I really go deeply into the matter, I > cannot traduce my own conscience: Judy is arguing fairly, honestly, and > truthfully. > > And what does *this* mean? It means she trusts in her contact with something > other than her own vanity and self-esteem. What is that other thing she > trusts inperhaps not even consciously? That would be reality, Steve. For > reality will adjudicate this dispute in a perfect way. > > Why not seek to bring your views into accordance with something as beautiful > and ruthless as reality? > > Robin >
Oy.
