Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-22 Thread nablusoss1008
Right. Seems he never did any practice for very long. That's what Rajas does to people. It looks like the Truq didn't follow up very much on the study part either, or the practice, although he has said he has tried mind-fullness meditation. Go figure. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread TurquoiseBee
From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 12:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities   I see what you mean about entities, or components And yes, you are right, introducing rebirth, or reincarnation does

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread nablusoss1008
So Goddess Tara isn't a God :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 12:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities I see what you mean about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread steve.sundur
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... And I'm saying you sound kind of desperate, as if -- as you admit -- forcing an imaginary atheist to be uncomfortable is your real goal. Well Barry, IIRC, your answer to this possibility

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread steve.sundur
Oh, and by the way, the whole impetus behind my post was that I didn't understand the way sal was using the term entities. Once he said it was comparable to components, it make more sense to me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : --In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread steve.sundur
And you know what else. I gotta say that at first blush, your view and evidently the view of Buddhism sounds an awful lot like Classical Theism, in the broadest sense of word. I'd love to hear you address that. And no, I am not trying to sell it. I'd like to know how you see it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread steve.sundur
or anyone for that matter ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : And you know what else. I gotta say that at first blush, your view and evidently the view of Buddhism sounds an awful lot like Classical Theism, in the broadest sense of word. I'd love to hear you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 12:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities I see what you mean about entities, or components And yes,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/21/2014 5:40 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Millions of Buddhists feel the same way -- they believe in reincarnation and don't believe in God. You are incorrect. Traditionally Buddhists throughout the Buddhist world consider that the universe contains more beings in it than are normally

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
This sounds like one of Barry's paranoid fantasies--that Steve, by his own admission, wants to force atheists to be uncomfortable. There's zero indication of that in what Steve wrote. He lists some possible future scientific developments that he speculates might make an atheist uncomfortable

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/21/2014 6:44 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: So Goddess Tara isn't a God :-) This is where followers like Barry get really mixed up. The White Tara in Vajrayana Buddhism is Sarasvati in Hindu Sri Vidya. According to Blofield, White Tara counteracts illness and thereby helps to bring about a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/21/2014 9:55 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: So he projects his own discomfort onto Steve, who hasn't been showing the slightest degree of discomfort in this discussion. Now this is funny - according to Barry he was in a cult himself, so he projects that everyone else here must have been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread nablusoss1008
So TheGoddess is important in Buddhism yet The Turq, a proclaimed Buddhist, denies God exist. What a mess. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 4/21/2014 6:44 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: So Goddess Tara isn't a God :-) This is where followers like Barry get really

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 4/21/2014 2:30 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: So The Goddess is important in Buddhism yet The Turq, a proclaimed Buddhist, denies God exist. That's because Tara is not a Hindu god, but a Buddhist siddha. The gods may bring boons in the form of material wealth, but they cannot bring one into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread steve.sundur
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Doncha think you're being kinda silly to try to make someone feel uncomfortable just because you can't conceive of reincarnation being an automatic process that requires no intervention or supervision? I guess I missed this. I am