XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: noname@no.email   
      
   On 05/05/2012 06:37 AM, oxtail wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   I think that if all you can do is ridicule then you are in sorry shape.   
      
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