Alex Jacob wrote:
No, David. To see, to really see, what is happening here, to understand the various players here, to have insight into psychology, into the things that motivate people but what they can never admit to others and possibly even to themselves
Coming from someone who types dots whenever his motivation becomes a topic :)
And believe me, there is no need to distort anything, they come predistorted. That is what erroneous ideas do, they are not neutral.
Uhmm, ideas are never
neutral, Mr. Super-Objectivity.
Quinn:
"It is the inevitable consequence of an intelligent man who distrusts his own mind so much that he no longer believes that anyone is capable of thinking for themselves.
Father Jacob: "I have just seen too many intellectual trips, too many spiritual trips and religious trips. I have seen an almost infinite variety of weird trips people place in front of their eyes as they look at the world, interpret it, and recommend ethics. "
Yes, that's what Quinn just told you: you've seen so much that the disappointment has made you
expect everywhere the same things. It's like Beingof1 seeing everywhere his miracles after experiencing so many starting from child-hood.
Quinn: Everyone is reduced to being a puppet in an imagined play."
Father Jacob: All these layers and layers and layers.
Yes, you're confirming Quinn again, layers of play and imagination. Everything can always be reduced to
that. Get over it.
Some of you seem to share---with genuine feeling---a sort of group neurosis. I take a risk in saying such a thing, but it is what I see.
I believe character to be indistinguishable from neurosis. In psychiatry the distinction is not always made. Perhaps every group always has its own character too and depending on ones values: indeed neurosis.