You said nothing whatsoever about the usefulness of emptybill's information, which was that anger is said to be the fastest route to God-realization. That's what you thanked him for and said was useful to you, and what Ann was asking about.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Judy, you are wrong. Here is the post wherein I answered Ann's question: Rasas and bhavas are all about emotions, which in another thread you said you have (-: I don't think we have 100% control over our emotions. And now that I think of it, I wouldn't want to. OTOH, I also think that the so called negative emotions release damaging chemicals into the body. If these emotions are continually experienced, quite a lot of damage can occur. Conversely, I think certain behaviors can facilitate having positive emotions more of the time. For example, getting a good night's sleep and eating healthy food. I also think a key factor is taking responsibility for our emotional experiences. I don't think anyone can help the thoughts and emotions that come and go all the time. But I think most people can at the very least, be committed to an intention to focus on the positive and attend to what's negative only for as long as it takes to deal with it. I don't think we're responsible for the thoughts and feelings that come and go. But we are responsible for the thoughts and feelings we "entertain" and "feed." This is what rasa and bhava is about. On Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:32 AM, "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Share, no, you didn't answer Ann's question. The post you cited as having done so wasn't about how the information was "useful" to you. It was just a rundown of the information itself. But even so you left out emptybill's point, which was about anger being a means to God-realization. I wondered myself how that could possibly be useful to you, since it seems so contrary to your personal philosophy. You didn't say a word about that. And there was not a thing wrong with the "tone" of Ann's post. WTF! indeed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Ann, you initially wrote: I can't imagine in what way this information could possibly be "useful". Information on how to operate your washing machine or directions on self administering an anema are useful. Please enlighten me. Given the tone of your post, I think I did pretty good responding civilly to you, several times. And I even answered your question! As the FFL guys might say: WTF?!
