XPost: talk.religion.misc, alt.religion, alt.folklore   
   XPost: alt.native   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article <512DA4F1.C7B@lycos.com>, Timothy Sutter    
   wrote:   
      
   > > >  Timothy Sutter  wrote:   
   >   
   > > > > "gibbous this day our daily crescent roll"  <=== (Timothy Sutter)   
   >   
   > > David Dalton wrote:   
   >   
   > > > Thanks for the feedback, Timothy.   
   > > > By promoting my own religious experiences   
   >   
   > Timothy Sutter wrote:   
   >   
   > > are you taking drugs to make it go away?   
   > > was your self described experience a bad one?   
   >   
   > so, this is my difficulty here;   
   >   
   > you claim to have had or to be having some sort of   
   > "religious experience," and that you seem to feel that   
   > this experience is one that you would like to share with   
   > other people in the hopes that other people may gain access   
   > or share in the same sort of religious experience as you   
   > claim for yourself, and then you seem to be seeking help   
   > to make this experience go away.   
   >   
   > people usually go to see doctors because they feel ill   
   > and want remediation of discomforting symptoms.   
   >   
   > so, which is it?   
   >   
   > a good experience that you want others to share in   
   >   
   > or a bad experience that you want others to run like hell from?   
   >   
   > you might be interested in this;   
   >   
   > ===   
   > Acts 26:24-25   
   >   
   > While he(Paul) was making this defense, Festus exclaimed,   
   > "You are out of your mind, Paul! Too much learning   
   > is driving you insane!"  But Paul said, "I am not   
   > out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am   
   > speaking the sober truth."   
   > ===   
   >   
   > which are you?   
      
   Once again I am in (and hopefully near the end of) a period   
   of low/wilderness/foresaken/cremation ground/trial/ascetic   
   years, which for many past figures lasted 7 years   
   but for me have lasted slightly over 17 years so far.   
   At the end (hopefully soon) of these low years I   
   may, like the Buddha at the end of his ascetic years   
   or Finn when the Salmon of Wisdom is caught, attain   
   wisdom/enlightenment/awakening which I would then   
   share with my readers.  I do not want my readers to   
   go through what I have gone through but they may   
   reap the benefits at the end of my journey.  For now I   
   list twelve main deities which I am not pushing on my   
   readers, and some messages which I am pushing.   I plan   
   to edit those messages soon but I expect I will edit them   
   even more when I come out of the low years.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
      "Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)