--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> wrote: > > > > On Jun 24, 2011, at 1:10 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > --- I > > > > > > n FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@> 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. > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > So, what would you say to this Catholic Priest who teaches TM to children? > > > > Are they his children? If so, I'd say, "Right on!" > > There's got to be some normal ones out there. > > > > Sal > > RESPONSE: I may have misconstrued your comment here, salsunshine, but I am > getting a little worried about how many times I have to point out that I > reaching into my irony survival kit.
Actually, my comments above were in response to Lawson's question about the priest. But as long as I have you on the phone, MZ...as far as you're being the Don Quixote of FFL~~well, I'm afraid there's a few that got there before you. But hey, there's lots of windmills to tilt at. So welcome aboard. I was doing this here. Therefore, any question that is being (ingenuously) asked of me based upon what you have quoted, is misplaced. I am mocking the assumption that I aim to judge or teach or convert anyone. Because that is not what I am about at all. Duly noted. In order to continue in the ordeal and miracle of being alive in my self-consciousness I find I have to respond to people according to what keeps the show on the road. Certain bloggers here seem to believe I am out to persuade or convince them that I am right and everyone else is wrong. That's not it at all. I am just defending my own belief system and subjecting itdeliberatelyto the test of being challenged by ideas and beliefs that are different from my own. Great. In that case you're in the right place. > I always have a sense of balancing between two poles: utmost sincerity, > all-purpose irony. I would personally suggest leaning more towards the irony side, but maybe that's just me. As I have said in a previous post, in this post-modern world you have to have both these things going for you simultaneously. If I didn't, I would't dream of taking on the bright, earnest, and serious (and sometimes hilarious) persons who post on this blog. Yes, well, you have to actually post here for a week or 2 in order for us to decide if your sincerity level is up to par. Utmost may not be quite good enough. But we'll decide all that in our next meeting of the Supreme Council of FFL. Sal
