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   From: evelyn.ruut@gmail.com   
      
   "niunian"  wrote in message   
   news:45pd66db6pn3d95ipcddj2lpkgn9v4stl7@4ax.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.   
      
      
   Spoken by one who exemplifies this.   
      
   --   
   Best Regards,   
   Evelyn   
      
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   may barter the vortex of life for boundless bliss.  - Milarepa   
      
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