The dog does eat your homework
phaedrus
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“Meditation”
-- I think that even there, it sort of starts out as an endeavor to signal to self “non-status-seekingness”. This is why I think that the “zen patriarchs” in the koan stories whoop the newbie wards and humble them initially to break down their status-seeking natures, so that they may move on to the next level of meditation where they are not competing and signaling to themselves (and other apprentices) that they are best at “not vainly scrounging to be the best”.
Yep, I would say behavior that you wouldn’t want others to know about, but you have to engage in anyway. Such as overeating, or purging may be.
Hi Alicorn, Thanks for the response. But if we interpret that only she is offended by it, or any nonspecified group, then I think scotherns’ examples such as
“”The touch of another person’s skin will still be wonderfully sensuous”—you can’t say that—you are discriminating against those without a sense of touch!”
also are valid. It seems to me that we have to assume that she bases her case on some sizeable homogeneous group (that gets offended). Women? - perhaps she can clarify.
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”
George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman”
“Do you realise just how disparaging that sounds, incidentally? Because women are obviously just a homogenous bunch...”
-- The original statement is offensive to women, doesn’t that also mean that you assume that women are “just a homogenous bunch”? You seem to want to homogenise women for supporting points, but consider them heterogeneous for opposing points.
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