Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00497)

Tom wrote:

>If I said "men are stronger then women," if JRC said
>"you're an idiot," and if I responded by looking elsewhere for objective
>discussion, I fail to see how I have incorporated self. 

(and snip)

>>you often become "deluded" that you ~really are~ your
>>dispassionate ideas, logical processes, etc.

>I am not very clear about what you mean by this, either.  Are you saying
>that I have not distinguished between myself and my thoughts, that I am
>mistaken in believing that I have been dispassionate and logical, or
>something else?

It seems like you believe that "being objective", "dispassionate and
logical" somehow insulates you from "incorporating self" (or some kind
of less desirable character). It does not. Logic is itself just another
corpse of self.

Mark
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