He didn't say he was rebelling against anything. You said he was.
when someone goes on retreat with you they have voluntarily delegated their own power to you, empowering and authorizing you to intervene on their behalf. it's a temporary arrangement, no? You don't claim to maintain this authority after the retreat ends.
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Only if we're in an ongoing student-teacher relationship.
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Well, a lot of religious leaders DO retain that authority. If there's anything I'm "rebelling" against it's that.
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Ok, fair enough, I get it. And what impact is your activism having? Can you point to specific metrics on the number of folks who you've helped extricate themselves from such situations? Whose benefit is it for, really?
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I'm not an activist. I work for my own benefit, and by improving myself, hopefully improve others who interact with me by being a kinder, wiser, more compassionate person.
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Ok, that's a nice and noble goal. I applaud you for it. But I do think my point has been made. This rebelling against authority is usually for our own benefit. It's tribal in-group identification, and a type of virtue signaling, at its best.
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I think I've heard the Canadian psychologist say something almost exactly like that
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