You turning Republican on us Feste? You'll get an Amen from this corner.
--- In [email protected], "feste37" <fest...@...> wrote:
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> I can't believe all the New Age nonsense I'm reading in various places about
> this unfortunate young man. Someone is saying he was "not from this planet"?
> This is crazy! It is a very tragic and sad incident. This young man
> desperately needed help and he did not receive it. His much-vaunted spiritual
> knowledge did not help him, so what use was it to him or anyone? You cannot
> serve your spiritual evolution by suicide. You cannot dictate to the universe
> the place you wish to occupy in it. That is not for you to decide. Anyone who
> believes otherwise is a fool. In Dante's L'Inferno, the Wood of the Suicides
> is located in the second ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell. Read it for
> yourselves. It is not pleasant.
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> --- In [email protected], "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote:
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> > exulted & mentally ill,,
> >
> > FW,,
> > <paste>
> > "I think a lot of people are shocked and confused esp the young people
> > here. Wondering if suicide is a okay method to move on, if things are
> > rough. Rick Archer gave this moving talk of love about the depth of
> > Daniel's exp and with all the talk of how he was not from this planet etc.
> > ,,,
> > I didn't buy a lot of that last night. Jesus and Shankara didn't kill
> > themselves to get out of the body as I know I've never heard of a saint who
> > was so trapped in this realm and finished with his work he blew his brains
> > out.
> > ,,,
> > Daniel may have been a very high guy but it still seems to me. he was
> > identified with what ever pain, human or cosmic he was experiencing and as
> > long as there is a 'me' sense there , there is work to do in this realm and
> > this body.
> > okay. `no mistake'. I get that. his time was up and for me its more that he
> > did as much as he could do and couldn't bare the pain of it and didn't know
> > how to stop the flow of it thru him. or stop identifying with it. he didn't
> > know how to shift his attention to who is experiencing the pain etc.
> > a proper teacher could have helped him." <end paste>
> >
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