--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11
> <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <yifuxero@> 
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ---Why does he have Woody Woodpecter on his hat?:
> > > > http://www.tinyurl.com/5dqnn9
> > > 
> > > Buddhists love to pick on others. It's an inferiorcomplex due 
> > > to the inferior nature of their meditative straining. Just 
> > > watch Vaj here on FFL - he does this constantly, year after 
year.
> > >
> > in general, i've met very few ( ok, none... actually) normally 
> > adjusted people who are heavily associated with a religion, be 
it 
> > buddhist, hindu, christian, etc., because their heavy 
involvement 
> > with the external group is a symptom of areas in which they are 
> > lacking.
> > 
> > and the more involved they are, the more unbalanced they become.
> 
> While I cannot disagree, I have found that the 
> same imbalance and *lack* is seen in those who
> are strongly anti-religion, to a greater degree.

that makes sense.
> 
> Do you actually believe that Nabby's obvious
> hatred of things Buddhist (something he is 
> repeating as rote from the Shankaracharya trad-
> ition) is *balanced*?

nabby strikes me as a pretty religous person.

> 
> The only balance I've seen in the world of religion
> and belief is in those who can take it or leave it,
> and who don't *depend* upon it to define themselves.

uh-huh, or anything else to define themselves.

> I've met Catholic priests who would be equally happy
> if the Catholic Church disappeared tomorrow, and all
> they had to define themselves was the lifestyle they
> were already leading. I've met Buddhists and Hindus
> who had the same sense of balance in their lives.

makes sense. 
> 
> But I've never met a strong True Believer whom I 
> could describe using the word "balance." Not one.
> Nor have I ever met a strong "anti-belief" activist
> or whiner whom I could apply that word to. 


As Vaj
> pointed out, the extremism of the points of view
> that *you* have expressed here on FFL reveals a
> great deal more about you than I think you realize.
>

no problem. Thanks for the reply B.

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