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Originally Posted by Jerome 
僕の書いたことでアメリカ人達がちょっとむっとしたみたいですね。笑
Amnesiac: thanks for your critique. It is partly justified, especially when concerning mistakes in my grammar (propositions!) but it is partly also uninformed or inapplicable in form and method to some quickly thrown down note on a forum, respectively too schoolmasterly and provincial in respect to poetical freedom, mannerisms, figures of speech, the general intention of my post (its telos) and the function of language as a means of communication. Furthermore, here and there, and quite embarrassingly so, gaps in your historical, philosophical and theological knowledge can be glanced through the cracks of your pedantry.*[To give only one small example: there is a difference between the common usage of the word puritan [as in: a person with overly strict morals], the influence of Puritan thought and the historical Puritans and their present representatives as a religious group]. I appreciate it, mind you, but I'm just unwilling to address every point right now because it would bore me too much. But maybe when having some more time or when being in some strange mood I'll come back to it.
p.s. (edit II) also you obviously haven't learned to generalize, then draw the insights from those generalizations without setting them as absolutes and then comparing, using and merging those theories with empirical data you have gained in your life. But don't worry- most persons (I'd say about 98%+) never learn this or even think about such basic problems of scientific and cognitive logic in their whole lives.
* to critique your way of analysis, and exemplify its shortcomings, we could for example look at my metaphors of gap and cracks above: while a provincial highschool teacher would maybe critisize them for being 'hard to imagine/picture' (gaps behind cracks) and thereby would want to flaunt his knowledge of 'what a metaphor is' that he had obendiently memorized, a true literate, a poet an artist would appreciate the interesting chiastic parallelism and its tongue-in-cheek allusions to the hollowness of someones head or (edit: this is also cool!) the sense of a limitless fall into emptiness that it could convey. (By artist I mean someone who is closing the gap between our (human) existence and the requirements of an idealized and completely realized life that we ought to be aiming at if we recognized the implications and the status of Universe (Cosm) at this very moment in history; a person of the format of a Fujiwara no Sadaie [i.e. Teika], myself or Zen master Ikkyu Sojun for whom I have great respect and who I also consider as one of my teachers (read his bio. on wiki, you culturless up-starts [not to use parvenu]!
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Amnesiac: thanks for your critique. It is partly justified, especially when concerning mistakes in my grammar (propositions!) but it is partly also uninformed or inapplicable in form and method to some quickly thrown down note on a forum, respectively too schoolmasterly and provincial in respect to poetical freedom, mannerisms, figures of speech, the general intention of my post (its telos) and the function of language as a means of communication. Furthermore, here and there, and quite embarrassingly so, gaps in your historical, philosophical and theological knowledge can be glanced through the cracks of your pedantry.*[To give only one small example: there is a difference between the common usage of the word puritan [as in: a person with overly strict morals], the influence of Puritan thought and the historical Puritans and their present representatives as a religious group]. I appreciate it, mind you, but I'm just unwilling to address every point right now because it would bore me too much. But maybe when having some more time or when being in some strange mood I'll come back to it.
p.s. (edit II) also you obviously haven't learned to generalize, then draw the insights from those generalizations without setting them as absolutes and then comparing, using and merging those theories with empirical data you have gained in your life. But don't worry- most persons (I'd say about 98%+) never learn this or even think about such basic problems of scientific and cognitive logic in their whole lives.
* to critique your way of analysis, and exemplify its shortcomings, we could for example look at my metaphors of gap and cracks above: while a provincial highschool teacher would maybe critisize them for being 'hard to imagine/picture' (gaps behind cracks) and thereby would want to flaunt his knowledge of 'what a metaphor is' that he had obendiently memorized, a true literate, a poet an artist would appreciate the interesting chiastic parallelism and its tongue-in-cheek allusions to the hollowness of someones head or (edit: this is also cool!) the sense of a limitless fall into emptiness that it could convey. (By artist I mean someone who is closing the gap between our (human) existence and the requirements of an idealized and completely realized life that we ought to be aiming at if we recognized the implications and the status of Universe (Cosm) at this very moment in history; a person of the format of a Fujiwara no Sadaie [i.e. Teika], myself or Zen master Ikkyu Sojun for whom I have great respect and who I also consider as one of my teachers (read his bio. on wiki, you culturless up-starts [not to use parvenu]!
).The one could awaken her, the other could not;
Both are completely free.
A god mask and a devil mask,
The failure is wonderful indeed.
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