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"I've told you already that to be inaccessible does not mean to hide or to be secretive," he said calmly. "It doesn't mean that you cannot deal with people either. A hunter uses his world sparingly and with tenderness, regardless of whether the world might be things, or plants, or animals, or people, or power. A hunter deals intimately with his world, and yet he is inaccessible to that same world."
"That's a contradiction," I said. "He cannot be inaccessible if he is there in his world, hour after hour, day after day."
"You did not understand," don Juan said patiently. "He is inaccessible because he's not squeezing his world out of shape. He taps it lightly, stays for as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away leaving hardly a mark."

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Huehuecoyotl said:

Becoming offended is a huge waste of time and energy. Why must we be continually attached to being right or wrong. This robs us of our happiness, and hinders our ability to act. If you don't agree with this..well, fuck you.

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Fuck us all!

Let's "fucking" have a world"..."-orgie!

Huehuecoyotl said:

Consider the moral codes that you have been programmed with. Your notions of familly, friendship, love, etc... have all been defined by your social training...not by your choice. As a child this was necessary, but as an adult we can...no we should...leave this behind.

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hobbitcg said:

I disagree. Morals are morals. Logic is logic. It's universal.

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It is universal, is it? You assert it to be an axiom, but yet, the last I was aware, there was no official Moral Code hanging on the wall of the center of the universe. How can you discern whether or not your conceptions of morality are universal, for instance?

You can assert that "morals are morals", and, indeed, morals are morals (isn't that the law of identity?), but what are morals?

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I've decided and contemplated what my ideals are. I do it all the time. Like I said, you would be a fool to leave your judgement behind.

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You are using your judgement to consider what's best for you. That's fine.

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It sounds as though he is beginning to not use judgement at all. Naturally, this aspect of the discussion is mere semantics, dependant on what light you are using the term "judgement" in. The important thing that is to be recognized is that there is a distinction that is being made.

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Just don't forget that there is basic honesty and respect, which every person deserves. I'm not saying that you have. I just think that, if you took your current point to an extreme, you wouldn't care about anyone or anything unless it was directly related to you.

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Well, then, perhaps you have not taken the nature of reality into consideration when contemplating the matter. It is more of a matter of deciding exactly what constitutes oneself. One's environment is oneself. At the same time, one person cannot address all concerns that arise from one's environment. He seems to be promoting a practical approach to life, in which one is able to realize reality for what it is and to then effectively navigate reality for the benefit of oneself and thus reality as a whole.


Peace.