XPost: talk.religion.misc, alt.religion, alt.folklore   
   XPost: alt.native   
   From: a202010@lycos.com   
      
   David Dalton wrote:   
      
   > Tonight I edited the Summary of key features of my cycles,   
      
   i hope you don't mind my injection here; but   
      
   it seems as if at some time, you had some sort of religious experience   
   which may very well have been a genuine religious experience, whereupon   
   you saw fit to appoint yourself as some sort of guide to bring other   
   people   
   into this same religious experience, placing your self on a pedestal of   
   sorts,   
   and in so doing, have managed to lead your self astray into meandering   
   wanderings   
   in a wilderness of self worship coupled with self doubt where you seem   
   to need   
   more help than you can be or are being to anyone else.   
      
   yes, i realize that David Dalton is not one of your stated "main   
   deities"   
      
   but it seems as if you spend a great deal of time and energy seeking   
   to maintain and justify your own importance, all the while drawing   
   a picture of your self as one who is in a state of utter confusion   
   and not as one who is actually leading anyone, including your self,   
   in to some state of higher conciousness.   
      
   believe it or not, i mean this, not as a denigration of your efforts   
      
   but, as a constructive criticism from someone who is a total stranger to   
   you,   
      
   but not a total stranger to religious experiences.   
      
   believe it or not, i realize that i am just a tiny speck of dust   
   on the cosmological balance, but, that i am on that balance,   
   nonetheless.   
      
   maybe, just perhaps, if you would refrain from seeking to elevate   
   yourself   
   to such lofty hights, you wouldn't keep crashing and burning and finding   
   yourself in a pit of disillusionment and would simply walk amongst   
   the common folk, many of whom, have already had meaningful   
   religious experiences without your guidance.   
      
   "gibbous this day our daily crescent roll"  <=== (Timothy Sutter)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)