On May 30, 2010, at 8:12 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> >> And also along these lines, Rick--didn't anyone else >> find it a tad odd that Dan was spending much of his >> free time, between the satsang group and the Buddha >> chat group--with people much older than him? I get >> the feeling, after reading some of the posts there, that >> people were so flattered that someone young wanted >> to spend time with them, that perhaps they weren't thinking >> of Dan's best interests--like why someone who was 25 >> was trying so hard to be "wise" or "deep." I agree he comes >> off as more mature than his years might suggest--but is >> that supposed to be a good thing? The whole >> situation sounds profoundly unhealthy. > > When you think about it, that does seem a little odd. At 25 you likely have > a girl friend.
He did have one, somewhat older than himself (I think) who I believe had just ended the relationship. > You're thinking about work. He was in law school, so again I don't understand where he found the time to do all the postings he did, go to meetings, etc. > Unless you are positioning yourself for something different. The postings of > his I have read, sound like so many new age figures like Tolle, Lady Ga Ga, I > mean Gangaji (sorry about that). At any rate, the situation does sound a > little incogruous. But that may just be a silly bias. I don't think it's a silly bias at all--I think it may go right to the heart of the matter. Sal
