XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: zen102422@zen.co.uk   
      
   "Silas Dollar"    
   wrote in message   
   news:neq7q75sosrds0d2dbn8fc8ioj2506gtc5@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 04 May 2012 05:12:28 -0600, noname   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 05/03/2012 01:14 PM, Silas Dollar   
   >>wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>What it goes to show is that whether   
   >>you're "enlightened" (fuckever that   
   >>means) or not, you still don't have an   
   >>understanding of the way the   
   >>world works, and you can't take its hint   
   >>to STFU instead of forcing the   
   >>issue.  Having forced the issue, you must   
   >>now contend with its   
   >>repercussions, whereas had you taken the   
   >>hint you'd be done with   
   >>dropping shoes instead of wondering when   
   >>they'll get done falling.   
   >   
   > Here's the thing, y'all... If the world   
   > was a giving me a hint, it was   
   > doing it by not having the spell-checker   
   > work on the field where I   
   > typed in the newsgroups that I wanted to   
   > post to. I was relying on   
   > that spell-checker to warn me if I was   
   > making any errors. Wasn't even   
   > worrying about having to get the spelling   
   > right. But it turns out the   
   > darn thing don't work except down here in   
   > the window where you write   
   > in the body of the post. So I crossposted   
   > to talk.religion.buddism -   
   > which is a newsgroup that don't even   
   > exist.   
   >   
   > Now you come along and tell me the world   
   > was giving me a hint to shut   
   > up and stop dropping shoes. What kind of   
   > causality is that? If I got   
   > to drop the shoe before I get the hint,   
   > what good is it? On the other   
   > hand, if you're trying to tell me that I   
   > should have learned how to   
   > spell when I was a young-un in school, why   
   > not just come right out and   
   > say it instead of all this round-a-bout   
   > talk about shoes?   
   >   
   > Back three or four days ago, before I was   
   > enlightened, I might just a   
   > took your word for it and said, "Yeah,   
   > that man is right. There ain't   
   > no sense going around dropping shoes when   
   > all I wanted to do was get   
   > some advice on how I should tell pastor   
   > Bill that I'm enlightened now   
   > and don't need nobody preaching at me   
   > anymore." But that was before I   
   > was enlightened, so right there you got   
   > another problem with cause and   
   > effect.   
   >   
   >>> On Thu, 03 May 2012 11:04:56 -0700,   
   >>> Silas Dollar   
   >>>   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I was up in the hills the other day,   
   >>>> paying my respects at the old   
   >>>> mountain cemetery when I looked up and   
   >>>> saw this big old buzzard   
   >>>> sitting on a boulder. He give me this   
   >>>> beady-eyed look that was like to   
   >>>> make my skin crawl and then he flapped   
   >>>> them scruffy old wings and   
   >>>> flapped off.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I guess it might a had something to do   
   >>>> with all them neglected and   
   >>>> overgrowed graves, but right of a   
   >>>> sudden I was enlightened. So I sat   
   >>>> myself down on a rock and said to   
   >>>> myself, "Silas... you has always   
   >>>> been a good Christian, but now you're   
   >>>> enlightened just like one of   
   >>>> them heathen Buddhists. What are you   
   >>>> going to do with yourself?"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Well," I said to myself, "for   
   >>>> starters, it don't do no good to talk   
   >>>> to myself like this. And besides, now   
   >>>> that I'm enlightened I don't   
   >>>> have to do a blasted thing with myself.   
   >>>> I just have to let myself be."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "You gotta do something," my self   
   >>>> insisted, "What you going to tell   
   >>>> folks come a Sunday when they want you   
   >>>> to go to church?"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Well, being enlightened, I know that my   
   >>>> self ain't my real self anyhow   
   >>>> and don't have all that much wisdom,   
   >>>> but I been getting this notion   
   >>>> that I ought to go down to the church   
   >>>> and let Pastor Bill and the   
   >>>> flock know I'm enlightened and don't   
   >>>> need nobody preaching at me now.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I figure Buddhists must run into this   
   >>>> kind of thing all the time, so I   
   >>>> was wondering if anyone had any   
   >>>> suggestions.   
      
      
   <<>>   
      
   you could tell him you don't need him   
   preaching at you anymore, whether or not you   
   are enlightened.   
      
   i'm not sure what your problem is.  you sure   
   you have one?   
      
      
   possum   
      
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