--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Tom says his politics leans more towards those of > > > > the Aryan > > > > Brotherhood. It's bad to be a racist. You put > > > > someone in a category > > > > that in your eyes they can never, ever redeem > > > > themselves from. Being > > > > a racist is bad. Diagnosing someone from posts and > > > > heaping derision > > > > upon them on the other hand, is good. Right? > > > > > > Yes to all the above...now what? ;-) > > > > > nice aikido move, Peter > > > > Enjoy yourselves, guys. You haven't reached enlightenment yet and > Laura Calvert, so full of life, innocence, joy, optimism and happiness > both went on to a better place, as the post said, and died. You may, > too, before you reach enlightenment.
To say that anyone *reaches* enlightenment is presupposing it as a linear extension of self-development. It isn't. To move from self to Self has been described as a ripening or an implosion, an extinction, or an expansion. These are closer descriptions than to say we *reach* enlightenment. As you rip, so shall ye sew. We > don't remember the joy of the last life during the current one. I respectfully disagree with you. I regularly reap the benefits of joys experienced in lives past, and regularly am confronted by past challenges too. > Perhaps you will have the great honor of living the life others like > Tom endured. Why was that painful, horrible experience an honor in your view? Perhaps you'll have the honor of remembering the joy > while you're being ripped to shreds in your next life. Then again > maybe not. > Absolutely not! ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AQDrNC/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
