Whatever PSEUDOmouth, whatever.

You're the one who keeps pretending to be something you're not.

... pseudo-intellectual.
Mr Opinion,
I'm starting to regret having coined the above term in various posts on OLO. I could not have foreseen you turning into a Parrot & a pseudo-intellectual one at that !

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Once upon a time in the city of Shravasti, there were many brahmans of varying sects, opinions and beliefs. They argued over doctrine and Dhamma, criticizing each other for variations in viewpoint. One morning, the brahmans encountered the Blessed One (Buddha) and asked of his opinion regarding their quarrels; he told them this story:

Once, in the city of Shravasti, there was a king who asked a servant to find all the men who had been blind since birth. After all the blind men had been gathered in one area, the king further instructed the servant to present the group of blind men to an elephant. The servant introduced each of the blind men to a different body part of the elephant, saying, “this is what an elephant is like.”

The king then went to the blind men and asked each man to describe to him what an elephant is like.

The first blind man had been shown the elephant’s head, the second had been shown the ear, and, in turn, he presented the rest of the blind men the tusk, trunk, body, foot, hindquarters, tail and tuft of the tail. Each blind man answered according to his experience, saying the elephant was like a jar, winnowing basket, ploughshare, plough pole, granary, post, mortar, pestle and broom, respectively.

The blind men then began to fight and to argue over what the elephant was like, which pleased the king. The display was entertainment for the king, who knew that the clashing of views and beliefs would incite the primitive instinct to defend what belongs to oneself and to attack what is regarded as belonging to others.

The Blessed One turned to the brahmans and said, “with regard to these things, you’re attached. You see only one side.”

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A moral is easily extracted from this parable: a singular perspective is insufficient when attempting to come to a conclusion regarding the nature of reality. Since individual perspectives cannot hope to grasp the whole alone, difference and variation are required if we are to understand anything at all about the nature of our existence.

It is natural that most issues are complex, that people will have different perspectives derived from their limited range of experience, and that people will express these opinions through dialogue and debate. The secondary moral the parable teaches is that such differences should not escalate into anger or aggression in an attempt to defend ourselves and injure what is in disagreement with ourselves. In a world where diverse opinions exist within family units, let alone the diversity that spans our globe, this parable teaches us that the key to harmony is to learn to differ in opinion gracefully, without succumbing to the instinct to claim, “only this is right; all else is wrong. ”

http://abstractelephant.com/our-mission/

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individual,

If you're going to get jealous about it then I'll let you be PSEUDO-individual.

There, happy now?

O, I dare not use Mr, if you want to be accepted on these pages as an adult stop behaving like a spoilt child. Demonstrate you are educated and can intelligently contribute to the subject.