--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> From: [email protected] > > >>> I'm with Lawson on this one - it would not make any sense for > > >>> MMY to be celibate for 46 years, and then not celibate for two > > >>> weeks, and then celibate till age 90. > > > > > > > > Who said anything about two weeks? The alleged affairs span > > > > a number of years. From the early 60's, according to Joyce > > > > Collin-Smith > > (http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/Call%20No%20Man%20Master/) > > > > 'till La Antilla, about a decade later. > > > > > > EVen so, it's decidedly odd behavior: celibate (one assumes) > > > for a good long while voluntarily, then not, then again. > > > > Lawson, all I can say is that it sounds like you > > have talked to as few theoretical celibates as > > Judy has talked to homeless people. If you'd > > spent any time around them (Buddhist monks, Hindu > > monks, Catholic priests and nuns, etc.) you'd know > > that THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENS. Celibate for years > > or decades, and then bam! -- screw yer brains out > > for a while, then back to celibate for a few years > > or decades, and then bam! again. It's just how > > things work in the real world (as opposed to the > > fantasy world that people who have never *lived* > > that lifestyle dream up about it). > > Yeah, but... > > MMY was allegedly celibate when he started hanging with > Gurudev, and it wasn't until he was in his mid-40's that > he suddenly needed to sew his oats. > > That is NOT typical.
Lawson -- read a book. Learn something. Or better, talk to people who have tried to live a celibate lifestyle before you make assumptions *about* that lifestyle. What you describe is the *most* typical situation in which fooling around by celibates happens.
