XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   noname wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
      
   Ever tried to laugh at a tragedy?   
      
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