XPost: talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen, alt.philosophy.zen   
   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > zenworm :   
   >   
   >> Perhaps you are terminally ill?   
   >   
   >      Perhaps zenworm speculates about me because he's unable to   
   > address what I've said.   
   >   
   >> The emotional anguish of refusing accepting. is sometimes displaced   
   >> into argumentativeness...   
   >   
   >      Those who refuse to accept they've lost an argument may in   
   > some cases displace their emotional anguish into pseudo-analysis of the   
   > person they argued with, for instance by guessing wildly about his   
   > history.   
   >   
   > Catawumpus :   
   >   
   >>>         About half-a-dozen posts here attacking   
   >>> me personally, none with any ammunition better than name-calling, and   
   >>> all dodging the topics.  You folks are firing blanks.   
   >   
   >      Zenworm confirmed my point re: name-calling, topic-dodging   
   > replies by offering more of the same.   
   >   
   >> Catawum(puss*) seems to think that this example of badgering and   
   >> baiting is how he:   
   >> On Aug 13, 7:32 am, Catawumpus  wrote: "handed   
   >> you the last word in roughly half-a-dozen places and returned to   
   >> politely ignoring you"   
   >   
   >      Zenworm is being even more than usually stupid.  Evidently   
   > he's unable to grasp the difference between noting the half-dozen places   
   > where I gave Jigme the last word and replying when he resumed   
   > hostilities.   
   >   
   >> There is also the possibility Catawumpus wants a job offer from the PRC   
   >   
   >      Seems unlikely the PRC would bother with Usenet, but if by   
   > any chance it does then the most logical candidates for a paycheck are   
   > Tang and Jigme.  They both preach accepting things as-is:  ideal for   
   > discouraging dissenters.  Tang adds occasional attacks on Tibetan   
   > Buddhism, and Jigme throws in the notion that anyone who complains is to   
   > blame for having non-conforming expectations, an Orwellian principle   
   > that nearly any nasty dictator could love.   
   >   
   >> * (puss   
   >> - the effluent infection commonly found festering and leaking-"weeping"   
   >> from unsanitary wounds.   
   >   
   >      More contentless name-calling.  Pitching a fit seems to be   
   > the limit of zenworm's abilities.   
   >   
   >> - a product of incessant mentational fermentation propagated by the   
   >> 'illness' of mind referred to in the four noble truths which gives rise   
   >> to suffering.   
   >   
   >      According to the Four Noble Truths, suffering reaches from   
   > birth to death -- "Birth is ill, decay is ill, sickness is ill, death is   
   > ill," etc. -- and originates in "the craving that leads to rebirth,"   
   > which the Buddha suggests extinguishing. A highly negative perspective   
   > on life in this world and apparently a personal offense to many of the   
   > worldlings posting in these newsgroups.   
      
      
   Are we here to boast how we suffer?   
      
   --   
   Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)