XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   On Thu, 03 May 2012 14:03:00 -0700, Silas Dollar wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:29:44 -0700, Silas Dollar   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Thu, 3 May 2012 13:23:47 -0700, "Ned Ludd"    
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>"Silas Dollar"  wrote in message   
   >>>news:ltl5q7p2obpekh549tbbib2olh3rl1hdie@4ax.com...   
   >>>> I'm posting this as a response to my own previous post on account of   
   >>>> the  fact that I crossposted it wrong. I was going to tag   
   >>>> talk.religion.buddhism on to the newsgroup field thing, but I left   
   >>>> out the 'h' that goes in 'buddhism.' So the post didn't show up in   
   >>>> that group.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I guess it just goes to show that there's still room for improvement   
   >>>> even when you're enlightened like me.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>  Yeah.  Tell the church folks that.   
   >>   
   >>Thanks for the suggestion, but it's too complicated. I got to tell them   
   >>something simple so they'll understand the situation. What did you tell   
   >>folks when you was first enlightened?   
   >   
   > I should change that answer just a bit. It ain't complicated that   
   > there's always room for improvement, but you got to understand that   
   > these folks is Baptists. They ain't going to look at that answer in the   
   > same way as enlightened folks like you and me. They is gonna look at it   
   > like it means that I'm trying to tell them to follow some other set of   
   > rules than the ones the Lord handed down. Or they're gonna see it as   
   > like I'm trying to tell them that all rules is wrong. Before I got   
   > halfway through trying to explain, they'd have me run out of town.   
   >   
   >>> Ned   
      
   Actually, a person who is enlightened would pack up and run out of town   
   like he has robbed the bank. Or he may continue to do what he has always   
   been doing just to avoid the attention. When you see people insisting on   
   posting to this dying internet relic called usenet newsgroup, you know no   
   one is enlightened here.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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