Ego competition, of course. There are a couple of people on here, always ranting and raving against others, who, they insist, are involved in all things spiritual, ONLY because, "it makes them feel special". I have always thought it was the mightiest of assumptions to know what someone else is thinking.
Nonetheless, I am curious, not about what drives a person's feelings of "specialness", but why another person would bring this up as some kind of personal sin against *themselves*, for years. On and on - ranting and raving, for days, weeks, months and years. Pretty funny when it becomes clear, the one denigrating others for feeling special, is doing so, because, they don't like the competition. Who cares if someone else feels, "special"? Seriously, who cares? And if someone is feeling inappropriately special, what is the alternative being proposed? Oh, right, there isn't one - simply a case of jealousy, and ego competition. No alternative is ever proposed, except that the perceived special one, STFU. SO if you see anyone around here, getting down on anyone who might feel "special", ask yourselves why. The answer is because the one making the accusation, is feeling *extra* "special", and doesn't like the competition, from those who are not seeing this critic's self-righteous view of the world, as they bloody well should. What a spiritually unenlightened viewpoint. Such thinking is the antithesis of this forum. Someone who criticizes others, strongly and regularly, for being special, or for believing in God, or for not seeing the world as they do, or for speaking too much about enlightenment - It appears such a person continues on a forum like this, because their differing opinions are strongly outweighed by their loneliness. There is no attempt to provide alternatives - just bash, bash, bash, as if they are saying, "All of the negatives I am pointing out, are to turn you attention back to me". What lengths some of us will go to, simply for a little attention, and love.
