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Old Jun 18, 2010, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by TheByzantine View Post
You seem to suggest we use euphemisms to describe the transgressions of nonconformists.
Not at all. What I am trying to say, and obviously not communicating it well, is that mixing feelings and descriptions of things, in using words such as "evil", is making a mistake, and mistakes in thinking can lead to mistakes in acting in order to cure something that is damaging us. In fact, it is the very confusion as to what we feel that produces mixing of feelings and fact. One can say "I hate X" or "I hate what X is doing to me" or "I am angry at what X is doing to me" or "I fear what X is doing to me" -- and that is not the same as saying "X is bad". X is X. Actually the more clearly one is conscious of one's feelings about X, the more one is able to examine X, and see why X is doing what X is doing, and thus to cope with what X is doing.

Saying (and feeling that) "X is bad" actually decreases your chances of coping with what X is doing.
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