That's a very worthy list, Eric, but at the end of the day you're still alone behind your eyes, right where you've always been, right where you'll always be. And that can't help but be prejudicial. (I think you and Mike are both right -- perhaps with a small quibble in the middle about the definition of prejudice.)
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Mike: How could any human being not be prejudicial in anything she thinks, believes, wants, values?Eric: By struggling to expand the circle of things one loves, by struggling to keep an open mind, by opening a window, by taking a chance, by self-questioning, by seeing oneself as a character in a fiction of one's own devising, by giving the other guy a break, by empathy, by imagination, by learning how to listen, by reading fiction and poetry, by humility and the acceptance that other people know more than ones does, by refusing self-parody, by prayer or meditation, by looking at motivation first, by finding a way to enjoy the happiness of strangers, by paying attention .... just for starters.------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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