--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@...> wrote: > > On Jun 24, 2011, at 1:10 PM, sparaig wrote: > > --- I > > > > n [email protected], maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote: > > [...] > >> RESPONSE: Admittedly it is "a desperate situation to be in", but you know > >> how we missionaries think: maybe only one of the natives converts to > >> Jesus, but think of that: ONE SOUL SAVED FOR ETERNITY. So I must push on > >> here, Tom, hoping that something equivalent to the One Percent Effect will > >> eventually kick in, and people, without knowing why, will find themselves > >> in accordance with everything I say. Sure, it seems like a pipe dream > >> right now; but as Maharishi says, even if you have to drain the ocean one > >> drop at a time, you still must go on. I shall go on. I am the Don Quixote > >> of FFL. > >>> > >> > > > > So, what would you say to this Catholic Priest who teaches TM to children? > > Are they his children? If so, I'd say, "Right on!" > There's got to be some normal ones out there. > > Sal
RESPONSE: I may have misconstrued your comment here, salsunshine, but I am getting a little worried about how many times I have to point out that I reaching into my irony survival kit. I was doing this here. Therefore, any question that is being (ingenuously) asked of me based upon what you have quoted, is misplaced. I am mocking the assumption that I aim to judge or teach or convert anyone. Because that is not what I am about at all. In order to continue in the ordeal and miracle of being alive in my self-consciousness I find I have to respond to people according to what keeps the show on the road. Certain bloggers here seem to believe I am out to persuade or convince them that I am right and everyone else is wrong. That's not it at all. I am just defending my own belief system and subjecting itdeliberatelyto the test of being challenged by ideas and beliefs that are different from my own. I always have a sense of balancing between two poles: utmost sincerity, all-purpose irony. As I have said in a previous post, in this post-modern world you have to have both these things going for you simultaneously. If I didn't, I would't dream of taking on the bright, earnest, and serious (and sometimes hilarious) persons who post on this blog. >
