Pete about the game

[Guest guest]

[forward from NDS as an answer to eric]

 

Dear friend,

 

> how many play " the game " here?

 

P: Don't know, don't care. You, on the other hand, are becoming an

aficionado. Hobnobbing with the Juddies, and the Nobbies.

 

> how many take emotional risks, and the risk of bruises and friction?

 

P: Do you? When the going gets tough, do you stay, or say: " The

violance and the cruelty makes me throw up and I leave "

 

> how many stay very safely within the boundaries of the no-

observable-

> comfy-slumber?

> how many would try their mettle to see if what they say about

> themselves is what works in relation to the world?

> or how about another book from amazon.com, to come closer to this?

> how many will see a glimpse before we close the curtain?

> how many will find that silence is the best?

> Pete, my friend, when you read these lines, who do you feel like

> targetting?

 

P: I don't target people, I target mistaken ideas. Yesterday I had

dinner with my extended family, and the newest addition to the family,

only 18 months old, was playing with the fruit ball. She would pick

an apple, look at it, smell it, and then with a smile held it up high

for everyone to see: " Behold,the body of Christ. "

 

She didn't have a single idea in her head, and was threfore, the

happiest of the bunch. She didn't have a notion of what happiness

was, or remembered that

minutes before she had been crying, when her mother took away from

her a porcelane figurine.

 

So, when someone holds up his favorite false idea in front of me face(

which usually is his idea of self) I target that idea, if I think

that person is ready to let go.

 

Let me continue answering you in your own words:

 

>in any case no need to consult Sandeep, he didn't say that

compassion

>is a virtue, like intelligence or courage,...

compassion is not in any case something you own, like a virtue;

and anything you own, like intelligence or courage is of little value;

>and how about vanity?

>someone would 'have' it...

and someone else would not 'have' it...

>let's say Werner, you decide i am vain (i know you didn't say or

imply it, just as an hypothesis)... but me, on the other hand, how

ever hard you try, i don't see that...

>just like a wall you say is white and the wall doesn't care...

so we just found out that when you decide that someone is vain:

- you must want the person to be 'hit' by such a remark (but what in

>you would want to 'hit')

- and the receiver must feel 'hit' by your judgement (judgement is a

virtue too)

>somehow you must have established a relationship where each is the

miror of the other, and if you said 'eric is vain', eric cares about

your opinion so something in him will change...

>something will change,

if not he vanity at least the ability to hide his vanity...

you will increase eric's hypocrisy!

see where we arrive with a simple judgement?

werner you thought you just said someone is vain but in the process

>you got entangled in a twisted relationship with a hypocrit.

 

Ericstoteles