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**pXss8cyx** · 10-10-2011, 12:29 AM

I don't follow what you mean stuka, as always I am interested though.

"Asserting factual superiority" is in the eyes of the beholder. It does make for a convenient epithet when one wishes to ignore fact and cling to story-telling: "Oh, i won't listen to that fact because you didn't sugar-coat it just how I like it, or you put chocolate sauce on it instead of cherry, and you didn't get the frosting just how I like it".

A good story is not constituted of righteous views or having someone asserting factual superiority... A "good story" is just a story. Facts are facts. "Asserting factual superiority" is a loaded presumption.

- the Buddha of the Pali canon and other Buddhist writings are not like this either ????? You haven't read MN 38, have you?

10-10-2011, 12:29 AM	#23
pXss8cyx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	I don't follow what you mean stuka, as always I am interested though. "Asserting factual superiority" is in the eyes of the beholder. It does make for a convenient epithet when one wishes to ignore fact and cling to story-telling: "Oh, i won't listen to that fact because you didn't sugar-coat it just how I like it, or you put chocolate sauce on it instead of cherry, and you didn't get the frosting just how I like it". A good story is not constituted of righteous views or having someone asserting factual superiority... A "good story" is just a story. Facts are facts. "Asserting factual superiority" is a loaded presumption. - the Buddha of the Pali canon and other Buddhist writings are not like this either ????? You haven't read MN 38, have you?
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