This is an interesting side debate. Favorite things = self damaging, well yes because it is damaging altogother. When you say this is my favorite you exclude all others, meaning you put others down for a so called favorite which is often dictated by fashion or "the culture of the moment in your own soicety or environment". A quote of a Flemish poet I saw recently in the Brussels Center for Fine Arts (where I work in the evenings as a second job): "admiration and favoritism are the blindfolds for people who are able to see" This in a way is more or less also that what Guido B. says. The damaging of excluding leads to self damaging, to a reduction of personal vision, heart and soul. Everything is connected, when you hurt someone, you hurt yourself.
I was 16 or 17 and I read a book by a contemporary author (Willy Spillebeen) and had the chance to meet him with a group of students. His book starts also with "the dangers of favoritism". He used the example or the metaphor of a group of young kittens that are born. What to do with them? Well, what are the most pretty kittens? (your favorites) They stayed alive, the others were killed without remorse. This strong image (for a teenager anyway) lead me to write a poem and to have a very suspiscious attitude to all kind of hit parades or lists like "give me your favorite color, author, book, music piece, femail or male person" and so on. How can we always narrow us down so much? We are able to see the beauty of differences in a complex world but still we tend to isolate a few things and embrace that as "the ones". Justice is also blindfolded for a reason, I guess... Postal Greetings, Guido Vermeulen http://groups.msn.com/POPOPEINT/guidovermeulenartiste.msnw Memorial BLOG http://shadowtributes.blogspot.com BLOG on artist books and small print publications http://boklist.blogspot.com FRIOUR zine blog(s): http://Friour1.blogspot.com A BLOG ON MY LIFE IN BRUSSELS http://brusselsesjoekes.blogspot.com " If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon - -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Tamara Wyndham [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zaterdag 1 april 2006 14:39 Aan: ma-network@yahoogroups.com Onderwerp: (",) favorite color What a new idea to me, that having a favorite color would be a "self damaging choice". I had always thought of it as a kind of self expression of individuality. But, you are pointing out that it can also be self limiting. It is in meditative states that we make no judgements. - T --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:13:47 -0800 (PST) From: guido bondioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: suicide continued. --- LaVona Sherarts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't had a tv set since 1957. This does not prevent you from adopting the fiction derived sentimentality of TV. > I felt the pain of the loss of a good person. There is nothing > egocentric about that in my mind To me it seems extremely egocentric. There is no loss to you. what would confuse you in that way if not some constant irritation to conform such as is offered by media? Just as you probable have a favorite color, a self damaging choice, You have many other unconscious self damaging choices. Feeling loss about someone else taking care of themselves can only come from the expectations placed on you by your choice of associates just in the way you acquired a favorite color. These responses are the work of fiction writers. Get them in books, at church or where ever. They remain self damaging. > Yes, the people need to go but I have a right to > feel a loss just as you do not. We have many rights to do wrong. There is little reason to use those rights just because they are there. Use damages us as well as the rest of the world. As you know by now at age 72, there are many GOOD ways to be evil. And that phrase reminds me of the good Baptists I witnessed burning to death a black man in Arizona in 1947. All those people believed they were doing GOOD. Good seems less relative than many people prefer to believe. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ <*> 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/
