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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   halfawake :   
      
   > It's not the anger that cancels it out for me.  It is just that he will   
   > repeat his assertions and completely ignore anything you say to the   
      
        A shame Rob has to lie to himself that way.  Truth be told   
   I've given much more attention to what he said than he   
   appreciated and more than it deserved.  He began by   
   constructing a stawman when he argued "There's nothing negative   
   about being liberated from delusion and attachment."  I'd   
   never claimed differently.  My point was that Buddhism includes   
   among other things teachings highly critical of worldly   
   existence (a shock and a scandal to certain worldlings in these   
   newsgroups).   
      
        Rob finished, several thousand words of bullshit later, by   
   falsely claiming that my interpretation of the First Noble   
   Truth included only "physical suffering."  A plain lie.   
   Rather than insisting on the restriction Rob wrongly attributed   
   me, I explicitly listed mourning.   
      
        Hardly worth summarizing the rest of the dialogue, so I'll   
   let those examples be the alpha and omega of halfawake's   
   nattering unless he wants to go into detail on his other errors   
   and evasions.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)