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bhikkhu

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2. It reflects our individual thoughts, or it isn't worth much

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 10:41 PM

Mar 2014

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I live in a RW area so I have more face-to-face conversations with wingers. So often I hear little more than yesterday's hate radio when it comes to politics, and its a little sad to see people I would otherwise respect play the puppet and recycle the latest argle-blarg, without a new thought to show.

It happens on both sides, of course; I try to keep in mind how disappointing mimicry can be to hear, and I try not to speak unless I am speaking my own words.

on edit, having read the other responses, and having re-read the OP, I think it is odd that something so plainly spoken is so little comprehended here. Its simple - its good to speak your own thoughts, your own words, your own understandings. That requires you to have those things, of course, which requires a certain amount of mental activity rather than simply cut-and-pasting the mental activity of others.
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