--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I'm more comfortable with dudes like the Buddha, who > made the point over and over and over that he *wasn't* > special, and that neither were his followers. They > were all equal -- cut from the exact same cloth -- no > differences between them at all except that one of > them had realized what had always already been present > for all of them, and the others hadn't...yet.
Too bad that didn't last long. You might have been a Buddhist otherwise. > In one of my earlier raps on this subject, I asked if > anyone here could *explain* to me why they enjoy this > process of putting the teacher up on a pedestal and > considering him or her "more than human," "special," > an avatar. You all *know* that it's going to happen > with Maharishi, and soon. Already has. > I'm still waiting. Your patience is superhuman, Barry. But maybe you should just figure nobody here actually enjoys that sort of thing. If anyone feels like giving it a > shot, I'd really appreciate it, because I still don't > understand the phenomenon, and the desire to do this. > I've *never* understood it. That's 'cause you're so Magnificently Ordinary, Barry, so special, so far beyond the rest of us in your Exalted Ordinariness that what seems perfectly normal to us, even if we don't enjoy doing it ourselves, is simply too debased for its normalcy to even register on your highly developed synapses. I mean, the tendency to put people on a pedestal, in virtually every sphere of life, because they were perceived to be extraordinary has been part of human nature ever since there *was* such a thing as human nature. But you have Evolved Far Beyond mere human nature. You are not just More Than Human, you have transcended humanness altogether. We should be worshipping at your Divinely Ordinary Feet, in the sure but poignant knowledge that we will never be as Supremely Ordinary as you are.
