Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00245)

Hi all of you,

These are just views:
Here is a little something. It can be compared with my latest emailings.
Maybe it will be tasty to for instance Bart and Wry.

I use the word "he" in the below knowing, that it could as well have been a "she".



Loading and Unloading small grapes...

When someone learns something from smeone else, and starts
to teach what he has learned, a situation exists which we should
look at very carefully, because most people do not understand
what is happening.
Forget for the moment that it is 'teaching' that we are talking
about. The human being, at a far more basic level, 'gets'
something from someone else. This thing may be a blow,
information, money, the idea that he has had an experience.
As soon as this thing is 'got' or believed to be 'got', the next,
automatic move, of the human being is to try to pass it on. This is
because the human being is a communicator, or operates as such.
It is only at a later stage (even if this stage comes after only 2
seconds) that the individual decides that he has 'got' knowledge
which he must communicate BECAUSE IT IS KNOWLEDGE.
Because he is unaware of this characteristic, he will
imagine that it is the fact that it is knowledge which promted
him to want to communicate it.
A certain, brief, verfication of this is to be found in watching
small children. They try to communicate. They try to get, and to
give to others, any sort of object. And they seek a response.
Because of the socially-determined ethic, of course, this
getting and giving often reaps the richest rewards. A person
getting a lot of money and giving most of it away will earn
plaudits and honours.
Another important part of the getting-giving process is when
ideas are offered to people. You often find that people who have
ideas to communicate (wheather these are of any value or not)
will spurn or refuse to entertain other ideas. This often because
they are already 'getting' their ideas from somewhere, or have
got them, and their giving-out process is at work.
We are all familiar with the situation of people wanting to
hold forth on some subject and refusing to listen to anything
else. This is exactly what happens when a person is being
interrupted during his 'unloading' phase. This helps us to understand
why people are sometimes bigoted. They are to all appearances
intractable, but in fact what they are saying is: 'I am
operating my unloading phase, do not interrrupt it'. This comes
out as 'Smith's ideas are of no importance'; or 'that is irrelevat
to our theme', and so on.
Ignorance of the existence and operation of this phenomenon
causes people almost to live in a dream: because they are
wondering why Smith's ideas are of no importance, or why this
or that is irrelevant. They should instead realise that they should
not be interrupting an unloading process.


Feel free to comment or at least do something...


from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...and Khizr with a funny turban...


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