---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote:

 The paragraphs would be just as stirring, Buck, if you credited them properly, 
along with a "paraphrased from" notation (as with the verses from Matthew we 
discussed earlier). 
 

 In this case, though, the lack of such a credit line makes it appear you are 
hoping everyone will attribute the stirring rhetoric to your own writing skill.
 

 

 

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:

 Om ha, ha, ha, ha. Xeno, evidently I struck your nerve. Classic. Typical ad 
hominem response to hit back at the messenger and not deal with the message. 
Would seems you are just one so sad no account sorry quitter himself for having 
fallen off the wagon as it drove on leaving you behind. I like these paragraphs 
for the study of how they can stir people. Worked even for you now. Thanks, 
 -Buck 
 

 Now you sound like Barry, Buck - like you meant to push buttons and get a 
reaction that hit back at you. You did not. You meant to do what you always do: 
regurgitate some lame-brained and, may I say, very boring outdated kind of 
spiel on the merits of good works (meditating) and the meritorious rewards 
(support of nature) that will result. Not a soul here feels any of this as 
having an iota of flesh and blood behind it. It is all emptiness and very 
hollow. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote:

 And in addition Buck -
 

 You posted this last year as well. Your repetitious plagiarism, spamming, and 
typical lack of original thinking here rather ill suits communicating to those 
on this forum. There is a spark in there somewhere Buck - it shows very 
occasionally - why not work on letting that come through instead of this 
ponderous Bible thumping approach which was better suited to a previous age. 
You are making it appear that meditation has zero effect on a person's life. 
The dinosaurs disappeared 65,000,000 years ago. Time to catch up!
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote:

  Buck wrote:
 
 > It is not that these meditators have lived, but that they have so 
 > lived...that they offered 
 > themselves willingly in a cause vital and dear to humanity; and what is 
 > more, a cause they 
 > comprehended as such, and looking at it, in all its bearings and its 
 > consequences, solemnly 
 > pledged to it all that they had and were.... This comprehension of the 
 > cause, this intelligent 
 > devotion, this deliberate dedication of themselves to duty, they suffered in 
 > testimony of their 
 > loyalty, faith and love, make these meditators worthy of honor today, not 
 > merely that the cause 
 > was worthy but that they were worthy. 
 

 Excerpt from Civil War Brigadier General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's 1884 
Memorial Day Address:
 

 It is not that these men are dead, but that they have so died...that they 
offered themselves willingly to death in a cause vital and dear to humanity; 
and what is more, a cause they comprehended as such, and looking at it, in all 
its bearings and its consequences, solemnly pledged to it all that they had and 
were.... This comprehension of the cause—this intelligent devotion—this 
deliberate dedication of themselves to duty—these deaths suffered in testimony 
of their loyalty, faith and love, make these men worthy of honor today, and 
these deaths equal to the lauded deaths of martyrs. Not merely that the cause 
was worthy but that they were worthy....
 

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