From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show Does the term 'unkindness' ever refer to a dead person?
Great opening line. It's a fine, fairly warm sunset evening here on the patio at De La Soul, so I think I'll ponder it just the opening line and snip the rest of your excellent post. No offense intended. Really. My answer to your question is "No." One can *by definition* never be "unkind" to a dead person. They're...uh...dead. Let's face it...to believe that there is someone still "there" enough in a dead person to feel that something said about them by one of the living was "unkind," then you're saying that you believe they weren't enlightened, and thus still stuck in the reincarnation cycle. If they are enlightened in the Maharishi model, at death they become the drop merged with the ocean and there isn't any "them" still around to be unkind *to*. Which is interesting in the context of all this this latest soap opera hysteria on Fairfield Life, because if people are honest, what it's really about is that a few living people became so offended at what was said in passing about a dead person that they went bat-shit crazy. Some found this stuff said about a dead person so uptight-making and button-pushing that they freaked out and ran away to form their own cliques, in which they would presumably never have to hear the dead person treated so unkindly again. Others, including many who still hold the dead person in some regard, didn't pay much attention to it, and went on about living their lives. Go figure...different strokes for different folks. And so at the end of all this kerfuffle we find ourselves in a situation in which the people who pretended that someone was unkind to *them* because he was in their view unkind to a dead person (who by definition one cannot be unkind to) are still trying to "get" the person who they feel was unkind to that which one cannot possibly be unkind to. It's all kinda Zen and weird, if you ask me... :-)
