--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > Ok, turq, here's a question for you: what goes to battle > with ego?
There is rarely a *need* for "battle" if there are no egos involved. > Being? Truth? Love? I don't think so. Other egos? Hmmm... > I'd guess yes. But that's just my opinion. > > Once again I don't understand why you get so het up > about people having and sharing opinions. It's what we > all do. Especially after we've survived our midlife crisis! I have no issue at all with people having opinions. It's when they try to present them as something *other than* opinion -- as "truth," or worse, as some kind of cosmic "Truth" -- that I cry bullshit. > I think most people share opinions for the purpose of > benefiting others. And *that* is ego. Believing that your opinion is so cool or so "right" or so "Truth-y" that sharing it will "benefit" others. > If they're misguided in that, well, there's obviously a > learning curve involved. And maybe wanting to benefit > others is the last stronghold of the ego. Hmmm... Certainly believing that their opinion has the *ability* to "benefit" others is one of the last strongholds of ego. > And really, if you added up all your writing online, I > bet you'd get close to 500 pages (-: But -- unlike some here -- I neither expect people to read what I post, or throw hissy-fits when others don't. Some here actually throw tantrums when people don't *respond* to what they've written. :-) > About character development, I'm making my way > through the 5 previous seasons of Castle and it's so > gratifying to watch the unfolding of all the different > characters. But of course especially Castle and Beckett > as they realize their love for each other more and more. It's a completely formulaic series, but its strength is in the actors, and the way they "fill out" the characters as written. Nathan is a tour de force in this regard, no matter what he's in, but Stana Katic is pretty good at being interesting, too.
