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   {:-]))) to Tang   
   Re: Mirror on the wall (was Re: virTue)   
   27 Oct 16 07:52:16   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
      
   >I take it to be a service that we render each other,   
   >in trying to make each other aware of how we live up   
   >to our words, or not. In general, I hope that we try to   
   >make each other see how others see us, to help us   
   >break out from our respective cocoon.   
      
   Hears an idiom.   
   The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.   
      
   Question: if you had a part to play in someone's suicide   
   by the mere words you take no credit for reflecting   
   back to them, on a screen, would you do it again the same?   
      
   If you claim that by holding a mirror up to someone   
   you had no part to play in their demise, what would you say   
   such a claim might be called?   
      
   - hypothetically   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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