--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
  I might be
> tempted to have a little "Let's poke at the supposedly
> enlightened person and see if there's really no self
> in there or whether there's a really BIG one waiting
> to lash out in defensiveness and anger" fun with them.
You know it does get a little old, but evidently not for you.  Having
spoken your "peace" you might just want stand back and let things play
out.  But, you seem to feel a need to keep on keeping on.  When I think
everyone else would wish that you would sometimes just STFU.
> Like blastedactresses, I do not buy that anyone can
> extrapolate from their subjective experience something
> called truth. In my view, whatever they experience is
> nothing more -- or less -- than subjective experience.
> As such, there is nothing that I or anyone else can say
> to prove or disprove it.
>
> When they cross the line from relating a subjective
> experience to making pronouncements about what that
> experience "means," and calling those pronouncements
> "truth," I might try to remind them that what they're
> saying may be nothing more than opinion, and thus no
> more "truth" than anyone else's opinion. ANYONE
> else's opinion. And that includes supposed holy men
> from the present or past. I don't swing behind the
> idea that ANY of their opinions is "truth."
>

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