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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:58:16 -0400, "Evelyn"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"niunian"  wrote in message   
   >news:i0id66t0sknp7kn6phkenn3jnmi7sgi70p@4ax.com...   
   >> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:11:57 -0700 (PDT), Jigme Dorje   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Aug 14, 12:05?pm, Tang Huyen    
   >>>wrote:   
   >>>> Lee Rudolph wrote:   
   >>>> > tri cycle:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > >Jigme Dorje:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > >> Churches are good for something.   
   >>>> > >> Someday we may figure out what.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > >here they do charity work the government doesn't.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > Which is (effectively) paid for by those taxpayers   
   >>>> > who have to make up, with the taxes they pay, for   
   >>>> > the tax exemptions enjoyed by "churches" and   
   >>>> > "charities" (when recognized by the government,   
   >>>> > when of course only in those cases--which are,   
   >>>> > however, by far the most numerous--in which the   
   >>>> > tax exemption is claimed).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > In effect, "charitable exemptions" (and, much   
   >>>> > worse, tax exemptions for not-even-colorably   
   >>>> > "charitable" religious instutions) are--like   
   >>>> > "foundations" with other ostensible purposes   
   >>>> > (like "education") are a way of letting   
   >>>> > persons and institutions who are not even   
   >>>> > *formally* instructed by the general populace   
   >>>> > choose how taxes paid by the general populace   
   >>>> > shall be spent. ?Fuck it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In a certain religion, it is said that divine wisdom is   
   >>>> folly to the world. So from the point of view of   
   >>>> divine wisdom, f*ck the world's judgement.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Tang Huyen   
   >>>   
   >>>The world's judgement is really not the issue. Your own is what   
   >>>matters. Can you say f*ck my own judgement?   
   >>   
   >> What a stupid question. Why do you want to do that?   
   >   
   >   
   >To be free.   
      
   Unfortunately, it is no freedom by being stupid.   
      
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