--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Anybody else identify with this?  I ask because
> > > some on this forum have characterized those of us
> > > who have had such experiences and talk about them
> > > openly here as somehow presenting ourselves as
> > > authorities on or representatives of enlighten-
> > > ment.
> > 
> > Maybe it's because you say things like this--
> > 
> > "[Enlightenment is] *just* like ignorance. Before
> > enlightenment, ignorance; after enlightenment,
> > ignorance. But still, enlightenment is there. And
> > the funny thing is, at that point you realize it
> > was *always* there."
> > 
> > --and then have a hissy fit when someone whom
> > *you* have determined (incorrectly in this case)
> > has never had an enlightenment experience takes
> > issue with your characterization.
> 
> Do you *never* get tired of being a grudge-
> holding bitch, Jude?  It's Thanksgiving, for
> fuck's sake.  Lighten up, have some turkey,
> hope that the L-tripophane helps you to relax.

Says Barry, unwilling, as always, to deal with 
either the repercussions of his own long-term
grudge-holding or the sloppiness in his thinking
(often closely related).

> < snip the rest of the living-in-the-past 
>   tirade without bothering to read it...

And thereby missing the point of the post.

>   life's 
>   too short and the afternoon here is too 
>   beautiful to deal with the small shit and
>   those who enjoy wallowing in it >

Except when *Barry* feels like wallowing in the
small shit, of course.






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