--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:18 PM, maskedzebra <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > RESPONSE: Admittedly it is "a desperate situation to be in", but you know > > how we missionaries think: maybe only one of the natives converts to Jesus, > > but think of that: ONE SOUL SAVED FOR ETERNITY. So I must push on here, Tom, > > hoping that something equivalent to the One Percent Effect will eventually > > kick in, and people, without knowing why, will find themselves in accordance > > with everything I say. Sure, it seems like a pipe dream right now; but as > > Maharishi says, even if you have to drain the ocean one drop at a time, you > > still must go on. I shall go on. I am the Don Quixote of FFL. > > > > > Your short (I hope) stay here is not for naught. When you came here we were > all pagans. Now you have spoken THE WORD to us. Now we're all heathens.
RESPONSE: if the truth be told,Tom, I am posting here in order to LEARN something, to GO THROUGH something, to TEST OUT my post-enlightenment beliefs. Should I encounter a point of view which creates vertigo inside my soul, then I will know: HEY MASKED ZEBRA: you be stupid, or blind, or naive, or out of itin some way. Then the tension and reaction produced by these conversations WILL DO ME SOME GOOD. I really mean this. When my subjectivity starts to infiltrate my reasoning faculties such that I find myself on the defensive, then I will know that reality is trying to teach me something, It seems on this hard-hitting blog I have every chance of becoming a better personor at least more humble before the terrifying mystery of existing inside this universewith the power of choosing what I do (and write). You hope my stay here is short. If you think my posts merit this harsh adjudication, then either you are lining up on something that deserves this assessment, or else my posts are a little too much of that adage: Sweet are the uses of adversity". It is my belief that entering into the fray here will strengthen me, open me up, and bring greater clarity to my way of processing the experiences that are being dished out to me by whatever created me and the universeand you. Could I be mistaken in this presumption, Tom? >
