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RE: Welcome – Striving after truth
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baandje
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Jul 17, 2005 06:07 PDT
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PK wrote: “I both agree and disagree. I think what Steiner was saying,
of course, had do do with truth versus untruth in one's inner life. But
I think there was an implicit expectation that included a warning that
this should be *especially* true of teachers - that teacher should
attain this inner truth, more importantly that it should, perhaps, be a
prerequisite to teaching. I don't believe Steiner took the role of
teachers lightly - he expected a lot of them…”
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That’s what I’ve observed, sure. Now, from what I’m reading, your taking
all that in a different direction, and implying Steiner approved of
‘deceit in the name of anthro truth’ or something – which of course
anthros (some I’ve met and worked with, anyway) would rephrase and term
‘truth of the sort the uninitiated are unable to fathom’. Maybe if you
could list some quotes where Steiner specifically stated that it was
appropriate to say one thing while meaning another, or something…?
And even then, the anthro position with that would no doubt be – and I
would tend to agree – that Steiner wasn’t condoning untruth. He would
have been recommending that some things are simply better left unsaid,
until others are capable of ‘spiritually hearing’ or what have you. And
all of us do that every day, already. We don’t blurt things out without
taking into account what’s appropriate in the given situation.
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