On Jun 7, 2009, at 3:31 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
I would like to thank Bill for encouraging me to stay.
Thanks to people like him, I will. For a while, anyway.
LOL...line of the week!
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<bill.hicks.all.a.r...@...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:40 PM, TurquoiseB
[email protected] wrote:
> >
> > From my side, to be honest, I've been trying
> > to provoke a little interest lately, in lieu
> > of bailing from FFL altogether.
> > . . .
> > So, if you'd like, consider my "high numbers"
> > a "last gasp," an attempt to see if there is
> > any life left in the Olde FFL, from my obviously
> > jaded perspective. If so, I'll stick around. If
> > not, I'll bail.
>
> Don't you realize that people have left because they have
> had enough of our resident Lord of the Flies? The one who
> lords over all, thinks "pushing buttons" is a noble thing
> instead of an ill mannered, nasty thing to do and in
> violation of the guidelines and rules of FFL?
Uh, Bill, have you ever heard of the delete
button? You don't like someone's posts, you
don't have to read them...just delete before
reading...it's what everybody does with
Barry's. :)
Pushing buttons *IS* a noble thing, in spiritual
environments filled with people who wish to
identify those "buttons" in themselves, identify
the attachments they reveal, and work on elim-
inating them. In such environments, the person
who can help you to pinpoint your own hot
button issues (and thus your samskaras and
attachments) is your friend.
Interestingly, in environments filled with folks
I tend to call "spiritual slackers," such people
are not only not considered friends, they are
considered enemies. The reason is that the
spiritual slackers are NOT working on trying
to eliminate their attachments and their sam-
skaras and their hot button issues. They *cling*
to their hot button, as if they believed that the
buttons -- and the overreactions they indulge
in when they are pushed -- are "them."
Consider me one of the spiritual slackers,
as I think what passes for most "spirituality"
is mostly a lot of boring, pompous crap,
designed primarily to boost people's self-
importance and empty their wallets.
Sal
