[Ailist] Re: Connecting with Others

[Harry Bury]

Dear Appreciative Colleagues,

I appreciatiate Steve's, Jane's, and Lionel's recent comments, and I find them
indeed interesting, Jane.
It occurs to me, we would be more "appreciative," Steve, if we could "reconstruct"
our worldview and  instead of assuming  we can know the truth, assume knowing absolute
objective reality is impossible. We could assume just as well all we have is perception;
 studied perception or studied opinion, but not absolutely true reality.( In other words,
what if we did not assume that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were correct in assuming
humans could know truth and assumed Pythagoras was not correct, but on to something
in assuming truth was unknowable? Then, the word "skeptic" would not be a pejorative term,
 as it seems to have been down through the ages.

 It has been my experience when I believed I was right
and you seemed to disagree with me, I concluded you were automatically wrong. As a result,
my mind closed and it was difficult, Jane, to even find what you said to me to be
interesting, let alone encourage my appreciation. I have come to assume no one knows
THE Truth. It enables me to APPRECIATE what others say with an open mind which
results in dialogue and greater creativity and greater APPRECIATION for one another.

Living in Thailand, Lionel,it is much easier to now APPRECIATE the cultural norms of this nation
which results, not in frustration because they do not do things the way we do( which I use
to think was the Right and True way to behave), but results in peacefulness of soul.

Warm Regards,
Harry J. Bury
Chair, Doctoral Program in Business Administration (DBA)
Graduate School of Commerce, Burapha University
Silom, Bangkok 10500 Thailand
AND
Professor Emeritus
Baldwin Wallace College
Berea, OH  44017 USA
440-826-2395 Office
440-336-2801 Mobile
Explore Dr. Bury's website http://homepages.bw.edu/~hbury
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Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:09 PM
To: kervick at comcast.net; ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Re: Connecting with Others

In a message dated 3/12/08 9:37:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
kervick at comcast.net writes:

Yesterday, a political surrogate for Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, a past  Vice
Presidential candidate in the US, made a statement about Obama that  many
people would agree is true.  Many people believe it is not  true.  But the
ensuing debate was not whether or not it was true but  whether it was racist.
If it is true then it cannot be racist, by  definition, so that would end the
argument.  But defenders don't even  challenge the veracity, they throw
daggers at the  implication.



Regarding the above unfortunately we are getting to the point where we  can't
have discussion without someone labeling it either racist or sexist. Now  we
have some going after Obama's minister and a number of statements he made.

Its a shame because instead of appreciating the fact that we have a woman
and a person of color running for the President we spend time labeling people's
comments.

Stan Capela



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