“spiritual purity”. Here you attack and degrade the speaker because she is not spiritual enough, because she “thinks too much” or “tries to force her intellect upon the world”. The problem with this is of course that the speaker can never prove her spiritual value to you (this being a subjective quality). You force upon her your own vague definitions of what you “sense” in her. This means that you feel empowered and superior to her and morally entitled to cut past her message, to stop listening to her. If she insists on trying to explain her point, you view it as further evidence of your own
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