Vineeto: Don’t you want to find out how you tick, …
Scout: Yes, so badly. I feel bad pretty often. I try to set my bearings and observe myself honestly and keep getting lost in the weeds. But I can see my confusion and stress make my body sicker than it already is. I want to stop torturing myself and to be well. (link)
Vineeto: Ah, now we are talking, lol.
Here is something I recently wrote to another and they reported instant success, so I wonder if it will work for you as well … This quote from Richard might be helpful as well (link) –Richard: What I have observed over many years is that a normal person has a propensity to blame – to find fault rather than to find causes – when it comes to dealing with the human condition […] if for no other reason than that finding the cause means the end of ‘me’ (or the beginning of the end of ‘me’).
Whereas endlessly repeating mea culpa keeps ‘me’ in existence. (Richard, AF List, No. 27c, 9 Sep 2002)
Scout: This forum is an anti-groupthink groupthink. […] (link)
Hello Scout,
It looks like your try at the actualism method wasn’t very successful and hence you did exactly what Richard observed in the above quote, except you are turning the blame outwards – you blame the forum members and Richard himself in order to avoid getting closer to “the end of ‘me’”).
That’s understandable.
What is less understandable is that you come up with the lamest allegation I have ever seen – “anti-groupthink groupthink”. Ha! What does that make you – anti-anti-groupthink think? Or perhaps a member of non-anti groupthink after all?
And what about the comparisons you provide, those followers of enlightened or ‘quasi-enlightened’ persons and those following the teachings of the 10-bull story – according to you their teaching is similar to what Richard is supposedly saying. Are those followers of the “groupthink” variety or also “anti-groupthink” people?
(BTW, those objections are nothing new, they have all been answered here so there is no need to clutter the forum as uninformed as you did).
Again, my question is, which side are you voting for (since to you it is a matter of numbers who is called “groupthink” – are you the lone defender of anti-anti-groupthink? Or do you perchance just want to mount a critique and stir some commotion before you slink away because you couldn’t make a success of the actualism method?
Did you know that one of the essential requirements for the actualism method to work is that one is ruthless honest with oneself?
Cheers Vineeto