Judy, please.............
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote:
> <snip>
> > So that makes me realize just how very powerful and charismatic -
> > and yes ill but mistaking it for enlightenment - Robin was.
>
> "Realize" is the wrong word here, Susan. Try "conjecture."
> You are not in a position to "realize" that Robin mistook
> anything for enlightenment--25-plus years ago, for pete's
> sake, and never yourself having been around him--and neither
> are any of the rest of us.
>
> You are of course free to conjecture and speculate to your
> heart's content. But use the correct verb, please. To
> "realize" something is to become aware that it is a fact.
> Whether Robin was mistaken about his enlightement is a
> fact somewhere out there in the universe, but we don't
> have access to that fact and should not pretend we do.
>
