--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > <jflanegi@> wrote: <snip> > > > > Good stuff- and moving beyond the projection on the teacher > > > > of 'perfection', is attempting to answer one of my favorite > > > > questions, What is humanness? Does it have any limits? After > > > > believing others to be 'perfect', what legitimately are the > > > > boundaries of human experience-Are there in fact boundaries > > > > to human experience? > > > > > > I think there is one: "Argue for your limitations, > > > and sure enough, they're yours." > > > > Thought-stopper. > > Quite honestly, I think *that's* a thought-stopper, > a way of avoiding dealing with what I said, and a > pretty classic way of arguing for your own limitations.
And that's *another* thought-stopper. > In my belief -- *and* in my experience -- the answer > to Jim's question is that there is NO limit to human > experience. Anything one can imagine can be done, can > be done. The issue is the breadth of one's imagination, > and the accompanying down-to-the-core belief that the > thing really *can* be done. So why did you flee to France instead of sticking around and fixing what you don't like about the U.S.? Why haven't you become a famous writer, a literary giant, a legend in your own time? > Those who cannot conceive of being able to have a > certain capacity can't. Simple as that. > > And, the corollary, those who *can* conceive of > having a certain capacity can, given that other > conditions are fulfilled. Oh, wait, what other conditions? Who's responsible for fulfilling them? Why don't you just conceive that you can fulfill those conditions, and then proceed to fulfill them? Let's start there. > But without the precondition of believing it > possible, the capacity is beyond them. It will > stay beyond them as long as they do not believe > it possible. > > So, again, "Argue for your limitations, and sure > enough, they're yours." You seem content with your > limitations...may they serve you well, and give you > any number of opportunities in the future to argue > for them and about them. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
