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.   
      
   Now, time to go on my weekend break, see you guys on Sunday evening   
   Beijing time.   
      
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