06-28-2012, 04:40 PM
Thanks for posting this, βαθμιαίος. I had read this before somewhere but don't remember.
I don't find anything inherently odious about ranking. We do it collectively and individually and moment by moment, determining where and how and with what intensity to expend our time, energy, and thought depending upon any number of shifting systems of ranks of importance and priority. In fact I would argue that ranking is a necessity in many instances, though certainly it can be used with negative intent for prejudiced discrimination, segregation, and subjugation.
My Rolling Stone subscription has included many issues of "Top 500 songs" or "Greatest guitarist of all time" or "Most influential artist", each issue containing a disclaimer that, were you, the reader, to make your own list, it would likely be different.
One can make a case that a particular athlete, or musical group, or food, or book, or philosophy, or nation-state, or cute animal picture is the greatest, and something may indeed be the "greatest" depending upon the particular criteria used. If one says that the greatest NBA player is he who consistently scored the most points in a game, or won the most MVP's, or led their team to the most championships, then Michael Jordan fits that bill. (I don't know if he does, actually.
) But if another argues using different criteria, then the "greatest" shifts.
Channeling is obviously less statistic based and less subject to objective analysis, leaning more in the direction of art, but fact-yielding criteria can certainly nonetheless be applied here as to other life domains.
In my own personal, subjective system of ranking, I think that she who served as the instrument for the only contact of its kind that *I* am personally aware in recorded history fits the bill of "greatest channeler of all time", though I won't force that on anyone who thinks otherwise.
I like the part as well where Topper saw the work of the three (Don, Carla, and Jim) to live together in harmony and to sustain the contact as a message in and of itself, an expression and fulfillment of the information they worked so hard to bring through.
Love/Light, GLB
I don't find anything inherently odious about ranking. We do it collectively and individually and moment by moment, determining where and how and with what intensity to expend our time, energy, and thought depending upon any number of shifting systems of ranks of importance and priority. In fact I would argue that ranking is a necessity in many instances, though certainly it can be used with negative intent for prejudiced discrimination, segregation, and subjugation.
My Rolling Stone subscription has included many issues of "Top 500 songs" or "Greatest guitarist of all time" or "Most influential artist", each issue containing a disclaimer that, were you, the reader, to make your own list, it would likely be different.
One can make a case that a particular athlete, or musical group, or food, or book, or philosophy, or nation-state, or cute animal picture is the greatest, and something may indeed be the "greatest" depending upon the particular criteria used. If one says that the greatest NBA player is he who consistently scored the most points in a game, or won the most MVP's, or led their team to the most championships, then Michael Jordan fits that bill. (I don't know if he does, actually.
) But if another argues using different criteria, then the "greatest" shifts. Channeling is obviously less statistic based and less subject to objective analysis, leaning more in the direction of art, but fact-yielding criteria can certainly nonetheless be applied here as to other life domains.
In my own personal, subjective system of ranking, I think that she who served as the instrument for the only contact of its kind that *I* am personally aware in recorded history fits the bill of "greatest channeler of all time", though I won't force that on anyone who thinks otherwise.
I like the part as well where Topper saw the work of the three (Don, Carla, and Jim) to live together in harmony and to sustain the contact as a message in and of itself, an expression and fulfillment of the information they worked so hard to bring through.
Love/Light, GLB
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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