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Christopher Li wrote:
Actually, I meant it in direct response to the supposition in the original post - that we don't know and can never know. Once you go there you stop, IMO, really trying to form an opinion - it's just some inscrutable mystery.
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Oh, sorry I misinterpreted! So...don't you think there's room for "I don't
know, but I
think that..." An opinion, but one that admits the possibility of being wrong?
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Christopher Li wrote:
Sure, there were toss-off remarks. OTOH, a pervasive characteristic of O-Sensei's text is the repetition - all of the basic themes and principles are repeated over and over, in the same way and in slightly different ways. It makes those things very hard to ignore or write off as casual remarks.
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That is indeed a fair point.