XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen
From: oxtail@nowhere.org
noname wrote:
> 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.
Isn't it wonderful?
Thanks to him,
I can laugh at the CCP all I want.
Much better than laughing at people,
don't you think?
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