Hey thanks, that was absolutely todays FAVOURITE word so far, I mean
the word "femail". In my opinion. Because playing with words is one of
my passions. It doesn't have to be any one elses passion. I can't force
myself to be as passionate about cooking or breeding pigeons or
watching television or singing or climbing mountains as I am about a
number of other things, and why should I try to? We make hundreds or
thousands of more or less irrational choices every day, based on what
else if not - favour? Without constantly being able to favour one out
of many alternatives life is extremly confusing, or impossible, to
live. That's what usually happens when a person becomes psychotic. You
can't focus on one task or one impression at a time, you absorb
everything around you without being able to filter out anything. That's
really as damaging as the 'damaging of excluding'. Narrowing, excluding
and isolating is a strategy to keep sane in a world overwhelmed by
images, sounds, people, opinions, impressions. Some kind of middle
course is, as always, the wisest, I think.
Haje
Guido Vermeulen skrev:
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
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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.
>
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