UnbornTao

It is certainly your platform, and you didn't listen to him much, to be frank. You did your Tier 2 moves of spiritually ignoring him with the usual mechanisms. Why do you pretend that your pretext for banning him is true? He was probably the most rigorous and intellectually open-minded user here. He could run circles around you and everyone else. Many of your responses boiled down to "you don't know what you're talking about™," and similar. Whenever you mention open- or closed-mindedness, I like to pay attention to the subtext of how those terms are used. My assessment is that, usually, to put it naively, they are based on your intuition of whether you are believed - or not. You're not going to like that you do the same thing - that of being "closed-minded." It just takes the form of a couched, spiritual, condescending Actualized veneer.

I don't know, Rick. -- You guys are really hung up on that one forum post. It was a hasty post that I regret making. I share raw, personal, aspirational stuff on this forum sometimes. I am sometimes eager so share a new thing I just discovered or am working on. I do get things wrong sometimes. Especially in a forum post. My standards for rigor in a forum post is much lower than a video, blog, or course. I don't even consider my forum posts to be my official body of work. I use this forum to think through my newest ideas out loud. This forum serves as a sounding-board for my ideas. Not all ideas survive. -- You began to actually admit your failure above to a degree, and then somehow reverted to the same defense mechanisms. And now you retroactively emotionally protect your self-image if people start developing some discernment. For some reason, you insist on wanting to appear special. It's usually made through future promises, too.

You know, @zurew could just as easily said the same about you. And he did. And the closed-mindedness accusation is a pretext in this case.

That could be true, but I don't know.

Definitely. It's a critical distinción to make. It could be boiled down to, at the risk of oversimplifying it, 'theory' vs 'practice.' 'The map is not the territory' - again, we hear this and in our minds we think we know what it is, but then there's what happens in actuality, which is usually different and inconsistent with our conception of things.

Essentially, what @Ero said.

Thank you. Semi-true.

@Tistepiste It seems like you're doing fine with your challenges. You recognized the potential negative effects of intense practice and learned from them, so props for that.

You know what? 4 warning points for that. No wait...

They were too spineless, desperate to defend their advantage.

@Human Mint Ché, qué bueno que viniste. Finalissima.

@Joseph Maynor Hey, your post was fine. You're just in time for the best stuff! Although you've missed great matches.

That, and la mano de Dios.

@Leo Gura Like I've said to you, I'd be much more concerned with glazers enabling and defending your BS than with people who confront you. That's just me. Why did you actually do point 1 again? Emphasis on actually. We've heard the explanation but I feel the reason given is a pretext for something deeper. @zurew should be a supermod. 2) The issue isn't so much the post itself and people's reaction to it, but the fact that you kept defending yourself (years and years later) when others tried to keep you accountable. If you had said something like this from the beginning, the situation wouldn't have gained so much momentum. But you kept insisting on it. You're finally bending over backwards over my closed-mindedness a little bit, and I appreciate you for that. And I recently realized that @Osaid and @Carl-Richard were demoted, too. I was the jerk, Jesus. keywords: dynamic, belief, gullibility.