--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@>
wrote:
> <snip>
> > > > Tom T;
> > > > The only thing we have to lose is fear itself. Lose your
> > > > denial. Lose your fear. Lose your denied anger. Would you
> > > > rather be loved or do you still insist that you have to be
> > > > right? Lose the need to be right all the time and see how
> > > > much love is available here. Tom T.
> > >
> > > Exchanging truth for love is a very bad bargain, IMHO.
> >
> > Depends on what you mean by each of those terms. For some
> > subset of definitions, you can't have one without the other.
>
> "Exchanging" wasn't the right term; "sacrificing"
> would be better. Your comment is closer to the
> point I was trying to make: If, as Tom urges, you
> stop standing up for truth because you want to be
> loved, whatever you get in exchange for the sacrifice
> of truth isn't going to be worth bubkes.
>
Tom says absolutely nothing in his post about 'truth'- The word
doesn't even appear in his post. You have chosen to equate insisting
that you are always right with championing the truth. Not the same
thing at all.
