--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> > 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.
Well, I've never insisted I was always right, first of all. And second, just substitute "standing up for what you believe is right" for "truth" in what I wrote. Kind of a no-brainer, I should think.
