26-11-2010, 09:58 PM
Keith, forgive me for speaking frankly, but I don't think Matthew is malicious. On the EF, at least in my somewhat less than acute memory, his posts were always factual or reasoned and understandable. I often didn't agree with his perspective, but I don't recall him ever engaging in ad homs or similar. And on more than one occasion he pulled me up on factual errors, and I had to apologize for these mistakes.
This, I think, is a good thing. An intelligent discussion requires opposing views intelligently debated. The day we all agree, is the day we give up the ghost of any possibility of advancing civilization.
I can only speak from my personal point of view, but the problem with the discussion in this thread to date was the intrusion of a sly agenda. That and the use of a device of using one poster to conceal other controlling minds behind it, something that is expressly forbidden in the DPF Rules of Engagement numbered 9, 10 & 11.
But hey, the same thing will be tried again and again and again. It's the way our world is configured.
Take care.
David
This, I think, is a good thing. An intelligent discussion requires opposing views intelligently debated. The day we all agree, is the day we give up the ghost of any possibility of advancing civilization.
I can only speak from my personal point of view, but the problem with the discussion in this thread to date was the intrusion of a sly agenda. That and the use of a device of using one poster to conceal other controlling minds behind it, something that is expressly forbidden in the DPF Rules of Engagement numbered 9, 10 & 11.
But hey, the same thing will be tried again and again and again. It's the way our world is configured.
Take care.
David
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14