Re: Barefoot anger issues?

Ya know, MH, there is a somewhat mixed message here that might contain some really good or helpful information for anyone that is able to see through some of the fog to get to it. Mixed, foggy messages tend to confuse. For instance, you often tell of how, over the years, a Doctor Schulze or Davide Christopher has ascended to their heights of present day success in large part from having sold-out some of their traditional principles in favor of commercial $$ interests. This might cause a thinking person to wonder - where does the interest of the money-making man in the suit stop, and the interest of the helpful advice giving doctor in regular clothes begin? Looking beyond their rationale, to hear/see that these guys are also known to be impatient with some of their patients seems to go hand in hand with the money-making side of their personality. From reading old Doc John's accounts from years ago, I see the principle of Doc John not "charging" or demanding lots of $ for the time & effort he gave to those he helped. Maybe this explains why I find no stories of Doc John exhibiting the habit of behaving like a spoiled, angry parent whenever he observed a former patient who had strayed from Doc's advice.... or maybe I just have not gotten to that part of the book yet where Doc John also became this way after getting older or more successful. I would agree that part of what Schulze/David say is true - the nature of how some sicknesses affects people is that it turns these sick people into energy drains that seeks to suck the energy out of anybody else who comes close enough. On the other hand, just because Schulze and Christopher have sold out to $ does not mean they immediately stopped having good advice to give, but it might make some other people wary enough to maybe sometimes be not all that interested in what they say.

This "don't ask if you don't wanna hear" should work both ways, but people have grown to accept that it generally does not. Coincidentally, this also looks/sounds like it goes hand in hand with the idea put forth in a conversation recently. Several people, including me, were talking about the idea of whether or not people should feel that it is okay for them to ask questions of their clergy/pastor/priest/rabbi pertaining to any one of the numerous contradictions portrayed in a bible. The answer / idea given was - oh, sure, it's fine to ask some questions every now and then, but do NOT question the answers given. Tweet