Corrections below: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > No brag just fact. I'm pointing out that the "fact" you're so proud of is something that most people worth knowing got over a long time ago -- being "deadly serious" about something as silly as religion. Just to offer a contrast, "Buck," my father was raised in a Quaker household, too. But he lived his entire life without ever saying a word about it to any of his kids. It wasn't that it didn't mean anything to him. Quite the contrary. It meant enough to him that he kept it to himself and never talked about what he thought or what he believed to anyone else. What they believed was their business, and what he believed was his business. Now *that* is doing Quakerism justice. Trying to sound more holy or more evolved or more *anything* because of some shit you do that you call religion? That's just posturing and ego-masturbation and embarrassing. Being "deadly serious" about it? Even more embarrassing. Just as you think what Buck does, feels and says is embarrassing so you need to take a look at how seriously you feel the need to put down those who actually believe in some greater force in their lives. Just because you gave up on any redeeming reason for why we all bother to get out of bed in the morning doesn't mean you need to poo poo others who have a larger vision than you do. You just became disillusioned and bitter at some point in your seeking - you came across too many charlatans or those you came to lose faith in, for faith you did once possess. But now at 70 years old you've come to the realization it all means squat and you will die and stay dead - forever. Fine, but before you go, why not set yourself out a little test, you like tests, and see if you can stop feeling so agitated every time you come across someone less jaded than yourself. > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@ wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > > > Turqb, my people are old Quaker and I too am Quaker and by experience I > > take that very seriously and even deadly seriously, which is why I am in > > Fairfield, Iowa as an attender of the large group meditations in the Golden > > Domes of the Fairfield meditating community. > > Well, if you want to brag about something (being serious) that many people > would perceive as a weakness or a failing, that's your business. > > "Seriousness is not a virtue." - G.K. Chesterton >
