jks
--- Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:
> Justin wrote:
>
> >
> > Gosh, you're modest, Ted. And perceptive and
> > sensitive. I'm ever so glad you are so attuned to
> the
> > feelings of others. So attuned that you even know
> > what would get them off better than they know!
> Please
> > tell me, Ted, what would get me off most -- what's
> the
> > best kind of sex for me to have?
> >
> > Since I am sorta dense and don't handle
> abstractions
> > as well as you, and also, as you can see, am not
> > nearly as empathetic as you are, I will need
> fairly
> > low level and precise directions. Maybe you could
> > start with the questions I put to Mike Ballard
> about
> > oral sex, various positions, and degrees of
> > unclothedness. I understand that these are highly
> > individualized questions, but you know me fairly
> well
> > by now, and someone as emphathetic and perceptive
> as
> > you should have no trouble expalining the best
> kind of
> > sex for me.
> >
> > Eager to learn,
>
> For this to be possible, you would first have to be
> able to perceive
> that in what your responding to I was suggesting
> that anyone, including
> you, could discover the best kind of sex through
> their own direct
> experience (including their imaginative experience).
> This idea is
> inconsistent with the positivism you're mistakenly
> treating as
> self-evident. I indicated what I thought the
> conclusion would be, but
> it's hardly one that can be imposed on any one (in
> fact, as I've
> pointed out before, it's an essential feature of it
> that it can't be
> imposed). It's also not original with me. It
> embodies the idea of
> mutual recognition. If you want concrete
> illustrations you could look
> at the relationships portrayed and imagined in e.g.
> Shakespeare and
> Goethe that embody the idea. Something
> approximating it is also
> discussed in the article by Jessica Benjamin to
> which I recently
> pointed.
>
> I doubt if any of this will be of any help to you
> though. The feature
> of your personality that causes you to substitute ad
> hominem and other
> abuse directed at humiliating and beating to death
> straw men of your
> own invention (see above) for rational discussion
> closes you off from
> insight.
>
> Ted
>
>
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