[FairfieldLife] Apostates

[Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

I hear our moderator, a TM apostate now, was up visiting one of the 
non-approved Indian saints up in Chicago. As one of FFL's biggest spammers and 
generally non-interactive complainer, he has been relatively silent now that he 
holds the moderator button. In particular with that complete lack of 
transparency as far as TuquoiseBee was concerned. The few glimpses he gave for 
reasons to press the delete button on him were absurdly implausible, 
considering things that have gotten by subsequently. I mean, if a single poster 
negatively impacts your view of spirituality, and you cannot stand up to that 
person while in the relative safety of online discourse, it only shows that 
whatever spirituality you have got is meaningless and in a practical sense, 
ineffective, and have a need to resort to secrecy and subterfuge to achieve 
ones goal.
Spirituality, and most other disciplines are laced with all kinds of absurd 
beliefs which followers seem to have a need to maintain. Some of these absurd 
beliefs are temporary necessities on a spiritual path because they provide a 
soft landing for the passage of various experiences (TC, CC, GC, UC, 
experiences like that), but in the end they all go if you find what you were 
actually seeking. Yet it seems inevitable that spiritual teachings are adopted 
not because they are true, but because they provide an axe with which the human 
ego can justify its carnage in the world by acting as if those ridiculous 
statements about reality were true, hiding the doubts that surround such 
beliefs from itself.
There is a certain humour in the human condition here, well stated by Andy 
Borowitz:
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – Scientists have discovered a powerful new 
strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to 
sustain life, a sobering new study reports.
The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent 
strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, 
leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
'These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process 
information,' Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the 
study, said. 'And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all 
intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.'
More worryingly, Logsdon said, 'As facts have multiplied, their defenses 
against those facts have only grown more powerful.'
While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the 
fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may 
have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from 
the auditory nerve to the brain. 'The normal functions of human consciousness 
have been completely nullified,' Logsdon said.
While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope 
that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future. 'Our 
research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more 
receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or 
oxygen,' he said.