--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <buttsplicer@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" > > > > <nelsonriddle2001@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > ++ This doesn't play well with the people who recall > > > > > past lives and, others to whom it has become obvious. > > > > > Give it some time and keep looking and, being a wise > > > > > individual, it will become obvious to you. N. > > > > > > > > I had a Mormon tell me the same thing on a long road > > > > trip after he told me all about how my personality > > > > will live forever in heaven reunited with my family. > > > > > > > > People who recall past lives have predictable results > > > > to source monitoring tests. > > > > > > > > http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070406_past_lives.html > > > > > > > > Past lives are as fantasy based on "hard wired" > > > > predilections of the mind. > > > > > > Stu, as much as I'm enjoying your hard-core skeptical > > > reaction to being treated like a peon because you don't > > > believe in stuff that others took as a given the first > > > time they were told about it :-), > > > > Just to keep the record straight, the only person > > who has come anywhere near treating Stu "like a > > peon" is Nelson, in what Barry quotes above. > > > > "Like a peon" is a rather odd characterization; a > > "peon" is "2: a member of the landless laboring class > > in Spanish America; 3: a: a person held in compulsory > > servitude to a master for the working out of an > > indebtedness; b: DRUDGE, MENIAL," according to Mr. > > Dictionary. I guess we can assume Barry's using it > > to mean treating Stu with a lack of respect. > > > > In fact, other than Nelson's brief comment, it would > > appear that the only person treating others with a > > lack of respect has been Stu, e.g.: > > > > "...you have a purely irrational belief on past lives, > > probably due to indoctrination of this concept by new > > age literature." > > > > Nelson's comment was in response to the above. > > > ++ I had not meant to belittle anyone and, to anyone > who saw it that way, I apologize. > I observed that the poster was well qualified to > keep on with research on the subject and, might modify > his outlook in time.
Noted. I was actually trying to give Barry the benefit of the doubt. I think many of Stu's skeptical comments have been quite overtly disrespectful, whereas yours was mild by comparison, even if it was misunderstood as a bit of return fire. I don't have any particular beef with Stu's comments. My point was Barry's misrepresentation, portraying Stu as besieged by putdowns from those who purportedly swallowed the reincarnation idea whole on first hearing. Not only was Stu not besieged by putdowns, it's not clear that anyone here who believes in reincarnation accepted it as fact the first time they heard about it. Barry simply made all that up.
