--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > How many of these homeless guys, if you plucked > > them off the street, dressed them up in robes, > > gave them a fancy house with lots of servants, > > and appointed them the leader of, say, a prominent > > Christian denomination, would actually end up > > fulfilling the expectations for a person in such a > > position? > > MANY of them. Judy, I have to say that it > doesn't sound as if you've ever actually > talked to very many homeless people. If you > had I don't think you'd say the things you > said above. > > Like Curtis, I've met and had long conver- > sations with a number of homeless people, > ANY of whom could pull off what you suggest > above (becoming Pat Robertson), and without > breaking a sweat doing it. > > There is as wide a range of human beings and > human characteristics among the homeless as > there is among the...uh...homed. It's yer > classic bell curve. And at both ends and in > the middle of that curve there are remarkable > people.
I doubt it's anywhere near the percentage you claim (there *are* statistics on how many are mentally ill and/or addicted), but the point is you would consider a homeless person who was elevated to, say, Archbishop and made a good job of it "remarkable," and rightly so. According to Curtis, Guru Dev was just another mentally unbalanced homeless bum, nothing at all "special" about him. I've met former Catholic priests who > are now homeless, and ministers (lots! of > ministers...I wonder what that says?) and guys > who have never read a spiritual book in their > lives, yet who were among the most spiritual > people I've met on this planet. Well, yeah, but that's by *your* definition of "spiritual."
