--- 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.