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Originally Posted by BlueMoon6
FooZe, c'mon, some feedback here! 
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Thanks for the IN-vite, BlueMoon.

I'll get back to the main topic in a separate reply but first, a little about vantage points and such.
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About pointing it out to myself that I am seeing my H from my vantage point. He surprises me, sometimes I wonder if my vantage point matters at all. It seems not to. I can get it SO wrong....
He was stressed? It wasnt about me? It had nothing to do with me? My vantage point...again....a very wrong vantage point
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Don't be so quick to make yourself wrong.
(You could be wrong about that, too, you know.
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As I see it, your point of view is whatever point of view, out of many potentially available to you, you're taking at that moment. I'm not sure how useful it ever is to pronounce a point of view "wrong;" anyway, the only way to do that is by considering how it fits or clashes with your other points of view that you're more attached to. Appealing to authority doesn't get you off the hook since you'd have to consider what the authority says,
make that another of your points of view, maybe add still others about how far you understand or trust authorities like that one -- and go back to considering.
For me the way out is to step back (or up, if you like)
(Are we disoriented yet?) to a point of view where you get to
watch yourself have points of view without making any of them wrong. You can even watch yourself making yourself wrong, if you don't buy into it.
Suppose one day you imagine there's a bear in your kitchen. You go check and find no sign of one. You
could say (one point of view): "I was wrong. There isn't a bear in my kitchen. I'm so embarrassed. I simply have to stop imagining bears in my kitchen."
Or you could say, from a higher-up or farther-back point of view: "I imagined there was a bear in my kitchen. It turned out that physically, there wasn't one." Perfectly true, you're not making yourself wrong -- and in the (unlikely) event that one day a physical bear
should somehow get into your kitchen, you won't be handicapping yourself by not even allowing yourself to consider the possibility.
Perhaps someone who's been closer to borderline than I have can tell me: does being borderline make you get attached to one point of view (and perhaps a different one tomorrow) so that you have difficulty choosing to switch to others when you want to?