Elf Baiter, I could have addressed it also to you but you seem more presumptive that you are absolutely real. Such are our certainties.
However, as some insightful person once pointed out ... we might doubt anything but we don't doubt our suffering. Such are our certainties. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wayback71@ wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@> wrote: > > > > > > Just to kibitz a bit - > > > > > > You don't really seem to vacillate between "believing and > > > non-believing". > > > After all, you seem to thoroughly believe in yourself. > > > > > > You just don't seem able to totally dismiss this fairy tale theology > > > you've > > > been told by your "betters"- probably when you were too young to know > > > it was nothing but a sales job. > > > > > > Welcome to Christian guilt obsession, even if just in latent form. > > > You enslaved mantra-demon worshiper! > > > > Yep, and whatever else I believe or don't, I do really like meditating. I get all those benefits we talk about. It is good stuff. So, when something works so well, it is easy to believe in to the other ideas tht go long with it: enlightenment, maybe reincarnation, higher states of C, the Vedas, jyotish. > > > > I heard various fairy tales growing up - mainstream Christianity, then TM when about age 19. And was always very interested in world religions and spirituality, even as a young child (interest in such things is thought to be very much due to genetics). I don't think it is guilt exactly that I feel - maybe a bit obsessed with wondering which version of Reality is the realest. And wishing I had that 100% belief in something that I once had. Being enslaved is, in some ways, easier!! > > Oh, so Bill was addressing you Susan, it wasn't clear to me. Thanks for inadvertently clearing it up for me by addressing his question. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Good to know I am not alone on this back and forth between believing > > > and non believing. Stay well. > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Thank you Susan. Â I got it. Â I will put the two responses > > > side by side. Â I have a "believing" and "non-believing" mode also, > > > and you articulate yours quite well; it's interesting to compare. Â > > > Have a nice day. Â Regards, Emily. Â > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > From: wayback71 wayback71@ > > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:20 PM > > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Is Jesus=God? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > Hey Emily, > > > > > I wrote a post in reply to you and did not send it until this > > > afternoon. Post #31992o. It was in response to your question about > > > what I believe when I am not in my "believing in spirituality mode." > > > Delayed reply, sorry. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
