--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 26, 2007, at 7:08 PM, peterklutz wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > > > This is: "What is your Freemasonic lodge's version of
Gnosis?"
> > > > >
> > > > > It's a simple question.
> > > > >
> > > > > Why can't you just answer it? :-)
> > > >
> > > > In the experience emblematic of light, as the sun rising in
> > > > the east. Universal Light.
> > >
> > > Translation: Vaj doesn't have a clue.
> >
> > Remembering my "gang of ducks" analogy this morning,
> > doesn't it give you pause sometimes how the desire
> > to "pile on" and beat up someone they don't like is
> > more powerful in some of the quackers here than the
> > desire to disassociate themselves from someone that
> > even *they* know is crazy?
>
> Apparently the inference Barry wishes to be drawn
> from his rant is that if one holds a particular
> opinion, and then discovers that a person with
> whom one wouldn't choose to associate onself turns
> out to have the same opinion, one should immediately
> resolve *never to express* that opinion lest somebody
> like Barry attempt to put forward a "guilt by
> association" charge against one.
>
> Sure, Barry, that makes a lot of sense. I hereby
> withdraw every opinion I've ever expressed that
> happened to be in tune with one of yours. I will
> never again say anything against George Bush or
> the Iraq war, for example.
>
> <belly laugh>
>
Barry is just slowly reaching the conclusion that the tide has
turned here on FFL, and just like his early morning reality that he
doesn't want to face in France, he doesn't want to face it here
either. Karma's a bastard, ain't it? :-(
