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Date Posted: 17:18:27 02/04/00 Fri
Author: The Smashing Machine
Subject: OK
In reply to: ss 's message, "My coments are dispersed throughout" on 13:43:56 02/04/00 Fri

Look, I think we have gotten off on the wrong foot. I have nothing against you at all and I believe we are very much alike. I enjoy conversing with you, but I do not enjoy it in the way we have been doing it lately. Can we leave our ego's on the side and stop saying "I am right, you are wrong." so that we can just go into the idea/experience/being of truth together?

I would first like to ask you what truth is not. I'm not asking what truth is, but what truth is not. To me, we must know the false to know the true, because truth is dependant on the false. If there is no false, then there is no truth, only a singularity then exists. It seems to me that by reailzing the false to be false in it's totality is what causes truth to dawn upon you in it's totality. How can we know truth without knowing that which is false first? Do you agree with this? So can we pretend we have no idea of what truth is and just think without biass what TRUTH IS NOT?

Let us start at square 1, pretendig we know nothing of truth and are trying to discover it together now. =) We have gotten nowhere in the past. We had a very brief agreement in our first meeting last year and that quickly turned sour.

Please don't say "If you want to know what I think, go read my web page", because I want an alive discussion of truth, not me reading page after page with no chance of responding. This way, we can go slow and question. Let us not say "no need to question, because I have the answer" because that is of the ego.

c'mon, let us question this together.

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Ok, but I think we should include some thoughts on truth, just so it does not get cynical either...so lets offer some truths and not truths, just parts, and work upon what we agree on, so we can confront disagreement more civily latter. -- saint stephen, 19:55:31 02/04/00 Fri
- Hehehe. New message head! -- �Matt�, 03:52:50 02/05/00 Sat
  - Building a progressive build to the Future; true and false self -- saint stephen, 08:37:47 02/05/00 Sat
    - Re: Building a progressive build to the Future; true and false self -- Beast below, 09:18:24 02/12/02 Tue