Just one more quick comment, because it relates to how I view relation to groups:
Quote:
Originally Posted by MacDuff
Peter Debelak
Do you think you got your thinking in a vacuum? That what you think is unique? Think again. Not even my view is unique. Unusual? Perhaps. Often misunderstood? Plainly. But definitely not unique.
MacDuff
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My point is that it doesn't matter to me whether my view is "unique" or "in the mainstream." I do not derive its value or my belief in it from these things. It doesn't "add" or "subtract" to the strength of my argument to know that it is shared by others or not shared.
I only know how to read/experience things as I do. I cannot conjure something that doesn't resonate with me presently.
That said, I have had enough experience of how my silly head works that sometimes I can go ary or need adjusting. So I am willing and open to correction - but it isn't an argument I find persuasive simply to say my view is "not shared" or "shared" by others.
That is precisely contrary to what I'm arguing in the first place. Other sorts of rebuttals, from the Word, from others' spiritual experience and wisdom, I am open to. Because those address the merits of what I am trying to convey.
Does that make sense?
Peter