Thanks to some recent feedback from posters, the list has grown:
Classic Defenses of the Six-Year Old:
1) My Dad is (WAY) Stronger than your Dad.
2) My Swiss army knife has 23 gizmos, your shitty little pieces of trash only
has 17.
3) a "You are so stupid (and thus I am not going to say more)"
4) You are too lazy and inezperienced to talk to me. The nerve of you! ('ll
continue to interject when I want, as I feel appropriate. It's not my job to
educate you or make up for your own lack of experience!"
5) You are too (stupid, lazy, uneducated, imature, feeble) to figure out whats
GOOD for YOU. Stand aside knave, Mighty mouse is bow here!
I was thinking to append these to the bottom of posts, and then just cite
numbers for each such defense used among posters using these age old
techniques, passed down from a stellar lineage.
FFL is such a rich environment for research into Classic Defenses of the
Six-Year Old.
Like the prison / joke joke -- where jokes are numbered, and yelled out ("5")
-- having been told so many times.
--- In [email protected], grate.swan <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> There appears to be a huge amount of energy spent on two types of arguments
> popular among kids around 6:
>
> 1) My Dad is (WAY) Stronger than your Dad.
>
> 2) My Swiss army knife has 23 gizmos, your shitty little pieces of trash only
> has 17.
>
> The first is acclaim by association. If I cam argue (even with out much
> substance) that my dad (or tradition/path) is better than yours, by
> association, I am (WAY) better than you.
>
> The second is the claim to "new and dazzling stuff" that while it may have no
> practical value, and perhaps is rarely used, still makes my thing, and thus
> me, (WAY) better than you.
>
> Aside from having allegedly way better Dad's and gizmos, what specific
> non-abstract, non-subjective personal benefits have you had from:
>
> 1) the "authentic" knowledge from THE yogic tradition
>
> 2) breathless samadhi
>
> 3) your favorite EEG pattern
>
> 4) practice of the agamas
>
> 5) Mindfulness meditation
>
> 6) yagyas
>
> 7) ayur veda
>
> 8) TM
>
> 9) your choice
>
>
> Not what books or teachers tell you are the benefits (perhaps) experienced by
> others, but rather, how have any of these things have actually and concretely
> improved your personal daily life in terms of clearer thinking, better health
> and performance, improved social behavior?
>
