--- In [email protected], new_morning_blank_slate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > > > <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I am for the full legalisation of drugs, as I've posted > > > > here many times. > > > > > > > > But there's nothing -- absolutely no reason -- for > > > > participants on a spiritual site to have any suggestions > > > > in their minds that drugs are a good thing. > > > > > > The editors of Tricycle, probably the most > > > respected Buddhist journal, disagreed. A few > > > years ago they devoted an entire issue to a > > > discussion of the relationship of drugs and > > > spiritual development. It was a wonderful > > > issue, very ballsy, and presented viewpoints > > > from all sides, but without any of the rancor > > > and moralism we're starting to see here. > > > > > > Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. New York: > > > Buddhist Ray, Inc. Vol. VI, number 1, Fall, 1996. > > > > > > > I'm right; they're wrong. > > > > But, of course, they're entitled to their opinion...just as that > > Dutch group of pedophiles who are trying to start their own > > political party because they feel it's okay to bugger teenage > > boys...and they put up a good argument for it: > > > > http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread210052/pg1 > > > > Without reading it, I am guessing that the Buddhists who wrote the > > above tract are on a par -- at least rationally -- with the > > pedophile party. > > Oh my. Equating spiritual use of ganja with pedaphiles. This has got > to be the lowest form of Non Sequitur on FFL yet. And its amittedly > not even based on reading the article. Pure specualtion. Oh my. We are > not working with an unbiased, clear, free inquiry kind of mind here.
But shemp clearly has his reasons even if he didn't read the article, just like the kids who killed and tortured the kittens at Noah's Ark shelter several years ago had their reasons for doing so. I just don't happen to agree with either of them. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
