12-27-2018, 02:37 AM
(12-26-2018, 09:59 PM)Glow Wrote: The problem with that is that even Ra said the words were chosen specifically for a purpose. We have had this discussion in other years and you can read the same passage year after year and find nuance because of the specific if not unusual wording. To reword that would lose all the nuance, and the gradual deepening of understanding.I don't argue with that, however, the original material would never cease to exist and be enjoyed. While it sounds good and well to be able to enjoy it that way, and that is in fact how I have had my learning of the LOO. It was impossible for me to get through the first time I encountered it and took literally years of percolating for it to begin to make any sense. It does now. It's simply impossible for some people to get anywhere into it due to its writing style. It is highly over-written, with extensive run-on sentences which use complex vocabulary. I love that the new edition defines troublesome words in the footnotes.
The words were also chosen to specifically answer the questions, which means that there was distortion, though not from Carla. I believe there is a significant amount of the material in the LOO which is unimportant due to the questioner's bias. I imagine such a reader would use a simpler resource to enter, to come to understand the language and then in time read the original as the vocabulary and storytelling begins to make more sense to them.
Yes. That's correct. Me condensing material does add my own distortion and reduces from the whole. That's something I would be inclined to acknowledge up front. In this incident it was requested so I assumed it was unnecessary to add a disclaimer that obviously, me doing a "tl;dr" version would be my interpretation of the channeling in a simpler fashion. If I were to create abridged material, I would place along side it a disclaimer indicating this was my personal summary of the session, and make sure that the original material was easily accessible right beside it to compare for the learning.
Sometimes other people's filters are desirable. If that were not so we would not be here discussing anything at all.