Pructus Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
For the sake of
Hello, members and gurus!!
Our journey is to master our mind and indeed to master our bodies. You do not want to create reality for the sake of an emotional rush. You do not want to create reality for the sake of your image, your sexuality, the way you look, your religion, your economics. You don’t want to use this brain for your image except for its resources, its frozen thoughts, its frozen memory. You want to make that brain fire that memory without any emotion. And if you can do it without emotion, you won’t have any judgment.
1. The underlined part seems to be interpreted in two ways.
(A) Because of you care about your image, your sexuality, the way you look, your religion, your economics, you don’t want to create reality.
(B) You do want to create reality but that is not for your image, your sexuality, the way you look, your religion, your economics.
Which is the correct understanding?
Or maybe it can be interpreted in both ways?
Below is some more context....
2. And the blue fonted part....
“You don’t want to use”, “You want to make “ can interpreted to mean either as (A) some kind of a command or direction, as in “You do not want to fight with me”, or (B) it is simply stating a fact. Which is the correct understanding, (A) command, or (B) simple fact?
Our journey is to master our mind and indeed to master our bodies. You do not want to create reality for the sake of an emotional rush. You do not want to create reality for the sake of your image, your sexuality, the way you look, your religion, your economics. You don’t want to use this brain for your image except for its resources, its frozen thoughts, its frozen memory. You want to make that brain fire that memory without any emotion. And if you can do it without emotion, you won’t have any judgment.
1. The underlined part seems to be interpreted in two ways.
(A) Because of you care about your image, your sexuality, the way you look, your religion, your economics, you don’t want to create reality.
(B) You do want to create reality but that is not for your image, your sexuality, the way you look, your religion, your economics.
Which is the correct understanding?
Or maybe it can be interpreted in both ways?
Below is some more context....
2. And the blue fonted part....
“You don’t want to use”, “You want to make “ can interpreted to mean either as (A) some kind of a command or direction, as in “You do not want to fight with me”, or (B) it is simply stating a fact. Which is the correct understanding, (A) command, or (B) simple fact?
Top answer
The text is from Ramtha's School of Enlightenment or RSE. _Knight [the founder of RSE] claims that in 1977, an entity named Ramtha began channelling through her. " This should give you a clue that you can't figure out what any of the text means by examining its vocabulary and grammar.
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The text is from Ramtha's School of Enlightenment or RSE. From Wikipedia: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Z._Knight [the founder of RSE] claims that in 1977, an entity named Ramtha began channelling through her. Ramtha, it is claimed, is a 35,000-year old ascended entity from an ancient civilization who has b
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Thanks deadrat~~
How about in the native's sense of English?
Is the passage still vague?
How about in the native's sense of English?
Is the passage still vague?
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It's worse than vague; it's nonsensical. It has no meaning using the standard definitions of words. "Creating reality" may have some meaning within the dogma of RSE, but we cannot find it by without RSE's own dictionary.
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