Me three. I usually disagree with Boddhi, but I've seen worse -- much of it on this list. Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks to me like Boddhi is being thrown off for intellectual disagreement rather than behavior. At least I don't remember him having to apologize for personal attacts on anyone, or being warned to change x, y, or z behavior or risk being expelled. Les Schaffer wrote: > > >>>>> ">" == Rob Schaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Just a couple of words on Boddhi's proposed 'resignation'. I > >> don't think he is disrupting the list, > > >> The bloke is clever, articulate, quite brave, and often funny. > > i dont know if the input of a lurker counts on this list, but i mostly > agree with these 2 points of Rob here (not so much on the content of > what Boddhi says) and yeah, the heat has ratcheted up a couple notches > recently, but then the d(elete) button works wonders if i grow weary, > and the responses to him, even though also heated, have good content > to them. > > in any case, if you survey the overall trend of pen-l posts during > this latest boddhi-war, you find enough variety that clearly the list > behavior has not been entrained by the individual ratcheting up... > > anyway, and this is apropos of nothing, really, but to those that > recoil at the smugness of bevans nickname: > > 'boddhisattva' DOES NOT MEAN 'enlightened one'. > > in the buddhist world-view a boddhisattva delays his/her (final) > enlightenment and works in such a way that all other 'beings' are > enlightened first. > > and don't ask me what THAT means.... > > les schaffer
