Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00565)

Friends,

One who presumes to think for others can't or will not hear their own 
conscience.  Such a person often develops the habit of saying exactly 
the same thing as their "opponent" only changing the polarity.  I call 
this tat-for-tit reasoning.

Such a person is arrogant.

Their habit of hearing only what they say and seeing only what they 
write being reflected back to them by their "opponent" is an automated 
response of which they are little aware and even less in control.   They 
are unmindful of anyone else, reflexively seeing only themselves as 
central to every discussion.

The result is that they are playing a children's imitation-game wherein 
they talk at  make-believe friends, cheerfully telling them the error of 
their thinking.  They play hide and seek with their own ego and always 
when they are recognized for what they truly are they run to hide behind 
their tattered cloak of brotherhood.  There is no dialogue in this game, 
there is only a single point of view and opinion presented as though 
presenting fish to a helpless and hungry multitude of "friends".

Nothing of  significance comes from such drivel.  I have wasted my last 
minute reading it.

--bill