--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" <shukr...@...> wrote: > > "There is no heavier burden to carry than a grudge" > -seen on the sign board of a local Shul.
With all due respect, I think there is a greater burden, and it's one that pretty much *defines* Fairfield Life lately -- "Being so bored with life that the only thing that gets you off is arguing." Yeah, the "carrying a grudge" thing is surprising in 30-year meditators, and given that Shukra has spent the majority of his posts lately doing just that re Vaj, he is in no position to bitch about it. But it's the *consistent* content of FFL lately that has been surprising me more. I haven't been post- ing much because it's been rare to find a single post to reply to that *wasn't* either an attempt to start an argument or an attempt to perpetuate one. WHAT IS IT that renders people so attached to their selves and those selves' transitory beliefs that they feel they have to "defend" them, or argue about them, or prove them "superior" to other people's attachments? I think it's boredom. It's almost as if the majority of posters to FFL think of it as a place that they can come to at any time to alleviate the boredom of their lives by starting or participating in an argument. Think I'm wrong? Point out to me a dozen posts in the last week that do NOT into this category. I'll wait. Doug posts things from time to time that are more "speculative questions." Rick posts about *actually doing something* with his talk show. Hugo finds interesting things and shares them with others. And a few others make posts from time to time that do not reek of boredom. But most stink to high heaven of it. Raunchy tries to avoid dealing with the boredom of her life by fixating on women as victims, and by try- ing to draw people into arguments about that. Shemp does the same with global warming. Any number of people run the same number with Maharishi. Judy's so desperate for an argument that she'll pick one over a 43-year-old pop song or the caste system she knows nothing about. Climate change, politics, TM, even enlightenment -- lately no subject seems to hold any actual *interest* for the majority of FFL posters. One rarely gets the impression that any of these subjects are anything for most posters *except* an excuse to argue. If that's what gets people off, so be it. I just think that something that would be more productive in the long run than arguing is looking into why they're so bored with life that the only thing that gets them off is arguing.
