--- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Emily are you saying that I prayed dear God, please break Judy's Comcast?! > Let's fantasize for a moment that I knew she has Comcast and I did. Then my > bad. But God's bad too. Right? And or reality's bad. And Comcast's > bad too. And maybe even Barry's bad because in the Now he expressed > gratitude about it. How about Judy's bad? Any of that in the equation? > > And by the same logic did my alleged prayers cause Hurricane Sandy?! Wow, > I didn't know my prayers were so powerful. And according to your buddies > aren't I supposedly out of touch with reality? Then how could reality > possibly answer any prayers of mine?! > > Going deeper, if reality or God did answer my prayers, does that mean > something positive about me or does that mean something negative about me? > Your post implies the latter. But supposedly it means that my personal > ontology is well aligned with reality. In this Context it can't really have > both a positive and a negative meaning about me. Right? But perhaps in > this regard I've not properly understood the Context. > > dear FFL, this is exactly the kind of twisting of ideas that makes me > question the so called honesty of those who are so negative towards me. > It's not that they're negative. It's that out of their bias, they twist and > distort even simple logic and even their own ideas. > > > And yes, I sent up 2 or 3 one liners to God that Judy would post out. Why > wouldn't I?! Now return to the sentence Then my bad in the first paragraph > above and simply continue reading.
Dear Share, Emily's post was not, strictly speaking, serious. And while you didn't (it turns out) pray that Judy's comcast would break you later admit you hoped (prayed?) she would post out. Is there a difference? Not that this makes you a bad person by any stretch, but one minute you are protesting mightily and the next admitting to virtually the very thing you thought Emily (in jest) was conjecturing. I think in order for you to stop feeling so put upon you need to separate irony/joking/fooling around from serious statements. This will eliminate about a third of the things you think people are attacking you with. I think it may be called a sense of humour but I could be wrong. It could also be handy to laugh at yourself once in a while and at the same time have a good chuckle at everyone else because in this crazy farce we call life (let alone FFL) we have to know that the things we take seriously are often the very things that should be allowed to tickle our funny bone and the things we think are comical are the very things that could be deadly serious. So no rules, just play it Share. Forget the techniques, the principles, the teachings and figure it out on your own, on the fly. It's the only way to go in my estimation. But then that is usually why I am sporting at least half a dozen bruises and a few cuts at any given time. Flying by the seat of your pants does this but boy is it fun a lot of the time. See ya. > > PS to Emptybill: I tried to apply the so what sutra to this. I failed. My > bad again.   > > > > ________________________________ > From: Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 1:33 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] from Judy > > >  > Judy sent me a private communique - to thank me for supporting her in full > wts style (she has, of course, badly misinterpreted me as I am fully engaged > in refuting this phenomenon and I will be the first to call her on this > egregious misinterpretation on her part) - and to ask me to let ya'll know > that her Comcast is on the fritz and she will be quiet until it is restored. >  Share, reality has answered your prayers.  Judy, the non-existent wts > crowd wishes your internet a speedy recovery.  >
