XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   On Thu, 03 May 2012 21:06:46 -0700, Silas Dollar wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 4 May 2012 02:58:54 +0000 (UTC), niunian    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>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.   
   >   
   > Nobody? Not a single one of you is enlightened?  Maybe some of them is   
   > enlightened and just pretending not to be enlightened so as to avoid   
   > attention.   
   >   
   > Well, I guess if usenet is a dying Internet relic, there ain't much need   
   > to avoid attention. But then why the heck is you folks here acting like   
   > you is doing something meaningful? Do you figure it's doing you any kind   
   > of good? It don't make no sense as far as I can see otherwise. Maybe you   
   > ought to check your calculations. They look like they're off the mark   
   > somehow.   
   >   
   > Thanks for the advice, though. I may pretend that I ain't enlightened.   
   > Or I may just skedaddle out of town. No reason to try to change folks   
   > minds about religion and such like, except for them going around killing   
   > each other and destroying the planet.   
      
   I am not enlightened, and that is a fact. However, that does not mean I   
   have not learned enough to spot a fake and expose him. That is why I'm   
   here most of time to clean up this stupid cesspool. I'm sure people who   
   have something to hide would find me irritating or even threatening. I   
   honestly don't know how to make it nice when the words just seem to come   
   out all by themselves.   
      
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