Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00338)

Leon, I'll try to explain about that 
"more challenging" comment in my last 
post. It's not that I'm looking for
more challenges, per se, in general, in 
any old sense. It was intended more in 
the sense of "a figure of speech
in a sense, with a positive/helpful 
purpose." But maybe the "positive" part 
might not have gone over too well,
after all? As I think about your last 
post (the one that I "had trouble 
quibbling with"), from another, more
realistic perspective, I find enough 
challenges in it, or, in other words, 
enough food for thought. I'm wondering 
if I might've found that post to have 
more food for thought than I'm willing 
to take on, just now, maybe. The part 
about "not speculating"... ^:-/ ... I'll
be thinking about that. My attempts to 
cope brought on that "more challenging" 
comment, so it was said by way of an 
attempt to defend my views, 
speculations, path makings in a manner 
that, I was hoping, might be seen as 
witty enough and original enough and
somehow relevant enough so that, just
maybe, a new and somewhat 
meaningful-enough
perspective/understanding might result, 
in the end, in a positive sense, on all 
sides. But, on second thought, I now 
have misgivings, feeling that I might've 
been too ambitious, feeling that the 
"witty" (ie, "more challenging") part 
might not have gone over too well,
after all, on balance, maybe, and 
might've been interpreted, in general, 
somewhat more literally than it was 
really intended, maybe. No hard 
feelings, I hope, Leon, people? I 
apologize for all my failures on these
lists. At the same time, maybe I ought 
to warn that more failures might be in 
order down the line ... We try, but, 
what can I say ... Sorry.

Best wishes,
Mauri