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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   halfawake :   
      
   > If cat were a social psychology experiment, it would be to see if people   
      
        If these threads were a social sciences experiment, they'd   
   be testing the reply of religious believers to elements in   
   their religion they prefer to dismiss or ignore -- in this case   
   Buddhism's world-rejecting, life-denying teachings.  The   
   result is unsurprising:  instead of freely agreeing Buddhism is   
   in part what they'd rather deny, the locals have shifted   
   between defending their narrow view and claiming that it's been   
   misdescribed.  Example:   
      
   > continue to become increasingly more engaged in response to continued   
   > misrepresentation and misunderstanding of what they say.  The answer is   
      
        Here the subject called "Rob" lashes out by saying that he   
   was 'misrepresented' and 'misunderstood.'  He doesn't show   
   anywhere that was the case, so this demonstrates the anger he's   
   feeling over being confronted with the ideas that his   
   belief-system excludes.  Colloquially speaking, "Rob" is trying   
   to shoot the messenger, although to a psychologist it's   
   obvious his target is the information he didn't want to receive.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)