Nice post. I wasn't really suggesting you examine your surety (although, IME
that's rarely a bad thing). I was just using it as a segue to a classic bit of
satire that the question reminded me of.
I'm sure the Worms would take a live and let live attitude to your view. Or eat
and let, or be eaten... or something.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" <turquoiseb@> wrote:
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> > A gracious approach, and a wise one. Pointed out
> > only because you are on a forum with others who
> > are not nearly so gracious. They'd have us believe
> > that their subjective experiences -- or the equally
> > subjective experiences of the people who wrote
> > things they consider "scripture" -- are Truth,
> > and *must* be seen as Truth by everyone.
> >
> > Personally, I just like the name Arrogant Worms.
> > Sounds like a description of the human race. :-)
> >
> Ha! Yes, and I was thinking the name is a nice description too of one of the
> paradoxes of "Brahman" or Life as lived by humans, being simultaneously
> exalting and humbling, infinitely large and infinitesimally small.
>
> As to fundamentalists, I used to find myself constantly plagued by them; I
> mean fundies of every stripe would frequently seek me out and try to convert
> me to whatever crazy Reality-poem they subscribed to. One of my biggest pains
> though was the fundamentalists in my "own" TM movement -- how embarassing,
> frustrating and infuriating they often were!
>
> And then I did some soul-work and to my surprise found I had a tiny little
> Inner Fundamentalist -- a part of me who, deep-down, was quite sure that I
> was *right*, even when it turned out afterward I almost always wasn't -- my
> inner "decider" or George W. Bush, if you will. Finding that part of me, and
> making my peace with him/me, miraculously healed my painful relationships
> with all the fundamentalists that it turned out had only been a reflection of
> my denial of him/me.
>
> Now I find I interact with fundamentalists far less often than before, but
> when we do converse we actually have heartfelt discussions; I am almost
> always stunned and exalted/humbled by their pure devotion and love and
> spiritual wisdom, by the white-gold light which pours from their lips as they
> cite their favorite scripture, and we more often than not find deeply
> rewarding common ground across our distinctive langage-imagery and
> world-views.
>
> So once again I find that my world is as I am...who would have thought it!?
> :-)
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