XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:23:12 +0100, Rosie Lea wrote:   
      
   > "niunian"  wrote in message   
   > news:jo5pqm$cl2$3@dont-email.me...   
   >> On Fri, 04 May 2012 09:37:44 +0100, Rosie Lea wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "niunian"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:jnvgld$qch$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> ra ra ra lets start a campaign RETRO USENET, the PLACE to be, forget   
   >>> all that  FACEBOOK Hegemony come to USENET a haven of free speech and   
   >>> democracy.... lets celebrate with possums and cats and mango pie....   
   >>> SPREAD the word..... :-)   
   >>   
   >> That would be nice. It sure gives me the chance to find out how   
   >> enlightened they actually are.   
   >   
   > Didn't you hear 'enlightenment' doesn't exist, it's been abolished !   
   >   
   > :D   
      
   How interesting. I see I will have a lot asses to kick to make things   
   right again.   
      
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