How about stage diving? Putting trust in the collective mass that surrounds one.
________________________________ From: TurquoiseB <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, 17 May, 2010 1:48:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Observations on Buddha at the Gas Pump --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > wrote: > > > > I wonder, if he's being so obvious about it, if maybe > > it's some kind of a set-up. I mean, I could really see > > Shemp trying something like this out, and then saying... > > "See? I was right! All you liberals really are phony > > hypocrites..." > > Nah, it's more like a rennaisance dance over there. The > interactions are all pretty polite, and follow a somewhat > formal structure. First you nod or curtsey (acknowledge > the worth of the person you are addressing). Then you take > their hand, and engage in the first steps of the dance > ( begin the content of your post), take a few twirls (most > of their posts tend to be brief), and pass your partner on > the next person, ( acknowledge that you have enjoyed the > chat, and that, more importantly, some insight has been > gained). I think you've been hanging around here too long. Pretty much in a nutshell why I gave up on the place after one quick read-through some weeks ago, and haven't been back since. It struck me as a place full of people who (with some exceptions) had mistaken lack of ego for lack of personality. It was far too much of an "Aren't we special" circle jerk for me to participate in. I don't know about you guys, but the folks I've met on this planet whom I suspect of really being Realized Or Close To It are just *brimming* with personality, energy, and life. The posts I read there were not; they were brimming with what their authors seemed to feel was the "proper" personality for Someone As Realized As Themselves. YMMV. Your analogy of Renaissance Dance is apt, and brilliant. I have done English Country Dance before, and know the metaphor and the subject fairly well. It's very technical and formal, a set of prescribed dance steps that everyone must follow to make the whole thing work out and avoid bumping into one another. But *left* at that, it can be joyless and uninspiring, a bunch of people "following the steps" with no apparent life or energy or enthusiasm. What transforms the dance into joy is knowing the steps but then *relaxing* into them, *flowing* with the other participants in the dance, adding flourishes and subtleties where appropriate, and turning the whole thing into a kind of group Artform. The difference between a beginner's English Country Dance class and a dance done by masters of the art is astonishing. BATGAP strikes me as a beginner's class.
