Value of teaching chatter

[ThePhiant]

Markie
your unsolicited advice qualifies as ego hopping
if you aren't wise enough to follow your own advice
why should anybody else bother to listen to you?




Lisa, with all due respect, I couldn't disagree more. Yes, "people who have spiritual teachings to impart [have been] making money via books, workshops, counseling and other avenues for many years"...and I would argue that not one of them deserved a nickel for any of it.

Generally speaking, people who think of themselves as "having wisdom to impart" are the very last people to whom anyone should go to find it. Those who present themselves as such are inherently ego-needy and invested in being viewed as "wise". Not to mention that they've set up their lives to depend materially on being so viewed.

I find it hard to believe that you couldn't have recognized your relationship pattern all by yourself without going to a "relationship workshop" by a guy whose bullet-point opinions (...sorry: "teachings") on relationships border on the sociopathic.

The only teachers worth listening to are the ones who would say, "why are you asking me? Think about it for yourself and decide what YOU think!".

But of course, that isn't profitable, either in ego-strokes or money.


Mark

[ThePhiant]

this is really funny (LOL) that you actually wrote this!
not that long ago, the self declared deity Dixon offered to teach the ignorant masses how to use critical thinking as was to be determined by the atheist Guru of rash-o-null thinking
only the gullible were to apply
but no takers so far
LMFAO


I would agree that it's quite appropriate to offer oneself as a teacher of relationship skills if what one is teaching is really effective for enhancing such skills. The same goes for life skills in general. But when at least some of the teachings, including some of the main tenets, are nothing more than simplistic, absolutistic, feelgood nostrums which, when exposed to the light of scrutiny, evaporate into a funny-smelling mist, it's appropriate to raise concerns re: whether it's wise for people to spend their money on such stuff, or ethical to offer it for sale.

Mark attempted to initiate a reasoned discussion of that issue. I think his apparent frustration when Mr. Hardman pretty much sidestepped the issue is understandable.

One thing's for sure: No one with a satchel of the aforementioned simplistic, absolutistic, feelgood nostrums for sale will ever starve in Sonoma County, especially if they're "Sacred".

Dixon

[ThePhiant]

oh, but Dixie
The Phiant DOES exist!!!
why are you pretending the Phiant does not exist?


"Willie"

Thanks for your well-reasoned and articulate response to Mr. Hardman's latest evasion. You've pretty much saved me the trouble of responding, and I've been spending way too many hours posting lately as it is.

I am left with a couple of questions for somebody, though probably not for Mr. Hardman, as he purportedly doesn't exist.

1) If Allan Hardman doesn't exist, who is cashing all those checks made out to him for his "services" (which presumably don't exist either)?

2) Would whoever's cashing those checks be willing to sign them over to me? I do exist--I promise!--and will make good use of the money. Allan can't possibly have an objection to that, as he doesn't exist and therefore needs no money.

I suspect that I won't be receiving those checks, because Mr. Hardman exists when it's time to cash them, then winks out of existence when it's time to evade a reasonable critique of his claims.

Dixon

[Willie Lumplump]

oh, but Dixie
The Phiant DOES exist!!!
why are you pretending the Phiant does not exist?

As a professional entomologist, and a hymenopterist to boot, I can assure you that the phiant is a wholly mythical creature despite its purported close relationship to the extant upsilonant and the chiant.

[Dixon]

As a professional entomologist, and a hymenopterist to boot, I can assure you that the phiant is a wholly mythical creature despite its purported close relationship to the extant upsilonant and the chiant.

And the pissant.

Sincerely;
Dixon

[ThePhiant]

And the pissant.

Sincerely;
Dixon
oh Dixie, you just couldn't help yourself.
but you wrote it sooooooooo fast that you forgot to spell check
LOL

[ThePhiant]

As a professional entomologist, and a hymenopterist to boot, I can assure you that the phiant is a wholly mythical creature despite its purported close relationship to the extant upsilonant and the chiant.

ARE YOU ALL PAYING ATTENTION!!!
A real entermoreliesist and a hyperoptometrist are talking about me
well, I guess that means I am officially and scientifically important!
how about that!

[AquaGyrl]

:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

By the looks of it, dixie is holding nothing back in an attempt to win the troll poll!


oh Dixie, you just couldn't help yourself.
but you wrote it sooooooooo fast that you forgot to spell check
LOL

[ThePhiant]

well don't rule out Barry!
you see, I never started this thread, Barry did!
this is about the 4th or 5th time that he has moved my posts, start a new thread AND PUT MY NAME UNDER IT!!!!!!!!!

IF MESSING WITH SOMEONE'S POSTS ISN'T THE ULTIMATE TROLL-MOVE, THEN WHAT IS???
but luckily, this time I have the Deity on my side
and hopefully he will make a profound and profuse, puerile postulation


:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

By the looks of it, dixie is holding nothing back in an attempt to win the troll poll!

[AquaGyrl]

Professor Lumplump? Didn't you forget to add your credentials in linguaphlebotomy?


As a professional entomologist, and a hymenopterist to boot, I can assure you that the phiant is a wholly mythical creature despite its purported close relationship to the extant upsilonant and the chiant.

[AquaGyrl]

And hey, Professor LumpLump? There’s a humpologist in need of your linguistic skills over in WaccoTalk. Look for post #19 under “Vote for who is the King/Queen Troll of the Wacco Community”.

You can't miss him. He’s posing as Satan.



Professor Lumplump? Didn't you forget to add your credentials in linguaphlebotomy?