#170- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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Is There Such a Thing as a Capital T Truth?
Everybody has to believe that there's such a thing as a real live objective capital T truth. They also have to believe that it's accessible to anybody and you don't have to have the secret recipe. If somebody won't allow you to use your words, they're interfering with that process. You can't dictate what the other people in the groom say. The rhetoric has two pieces. Speaking and listening. So you want to practice speaking so that you get good and efficient and lovely with the skill of communicating the contents of your mind to other people. And then the other people have to practice listening honestly, hearing actually what you said and taking it for what it was said.
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