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   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   Jigme Dorje :   
      
   > >>> Such an entity cannot listen to others or carry on meaningful   
   > >>> communication with them. It can only feed its false sense of identity   
   > >>> by creating a sense of specialness, separation and superiority in   
   > >>> comparison to others.  For such an entity to exist, others must be   
   > >>> "wrong" and "stupid" or otherwise inferior.  It exists in a reactive   
   > >>> state, completely dependent on the world of form.   
      
   Catawumpus :   
      
   > >>      If Jigme is describing himself then he's doing pretty well.   
   > >> His reading difficulties stem from an inability to listen   
   > >> without hearing his own voice, he likes to think he's specially   
   > >> awakened, and our present discussion began with his need to   
   > >> claim I was wrong about Buddhism.  Unfortunately for him he was   
   > >> unable to address what I said, still less show that it was   
   > >> false, so my point stands:  teachings like the Four Noble   
   > >> Truths offer a highly critical perspective on worldly existence   
   > >> no matter how much of a shock that is to worldlings like   
   > >> Jigme who believe that "Buddhism does not comment negatively on   
   > >> life here."   
      
   absentia obscuria :   
      
   >> so happy that you could respond. could you maybe say something   
   >> real for a change? just wondering.   
      
   Evelyn :   
      
   > He's not capable of it.   
      
        Poor little net.buddhists:  so very offended, so incapable   
   of expressing themselves, and either unable or unwilling to   
   recognize that what scandalizes them is ... Buddhism.  They may   
   as well be Christians.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)