XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen
From: niunian@ymail.com
On Thu, 03 May 2012 22:06:26 -0700, Silas Dollar wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:47:14 +0000 (UTC), 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.
>
> What's the point if Usenet is dying? Couldn't you go do something useful
> and just let it die by itself?
Actually, that is exactly what I have been doing. I only post when I have
something to say. I don't fool around wasting my time in here. And it's
all for my personal pleasure.
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