XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen
From: noname@no.email
On 05/04/2012 07:08 AM, oxtail wrote:
> niunian wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> You are not what you say you are.
> You are not even what you think you are.
> You are a hate-monger paid by the CCP.
If you really believe that, it gives you a means of affecting the CCP
from the inside.
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