--- In [email protected], "pileated56" <trunkp@...> wrote: > > I read the intro to what the message board is all about > and I find it difficult to imagine why the author of this > post is writing on FFL. Maybe he/she should seek another > avenue to express your thoughts? Just sayin'....
What part of "Pretty much any topic is fair game" did you not understand? If you have trouble parsing that statement, I can see why you might believe that discussions of language and why some people overreact to simple words might have nothing to do with spirituality. Based on your cumulative total of four posts here, it would appear that you have had some exposure to TM. Do you remember Maharishi talking about "Line on water...line on stone?" That was a talk about the nature of attachment, and of sanskaras. In his view, an *unevolved* person reacts strongly or overreacts to something, as if that something has drawn a "line on stone," one that cannot easily be erased or forgotten. A more evolved person may perceive exactly the same stimulus, but not feel the need to react, let alone overreact. To them, the stimulus is a "line drawn on water." It just passes through, leaving no trace, and no need to react in a sanskaric kneejerk fashion. I am merely making the point that on this forum a great number of the posts strike me as being based in "lines drawn on stone." People say the smallest, most piddleyshit things, and someone goes berserk over them, blowing them up into Big Deals and then obsessing on them interminably. Often these obsessives try their best to draw other people into their obsessions, so that they can obsess on them, too. Does this strike you as "evolved" behavior, the result promised by a lifetime spent practicing TM? I wrote a rap about two tiny words that have a proven track record of being overreacted to on this forum. I posed some theories about WHY those over- reactions take place. Do you have alternative theories to suggest, or are you just taking a pot shot at someone because one or more of these words provoked a sanskaric overreaction in you?
