Sebastian Ortiz Duran Gochicoa wrote: > LOL > > > > Fudo, AC, Anjin:
> > It's obvious these people are "fragile", why keep doing something that's obviously > hurting them? These people are leaving the group. You're never gonna hear from them > again! Why bother!? Dear Sebastian, ***chuckle*** these people cannot be as fragile as the pretend to be and have survived to an age of majority. Many of them whine about how rough it is and then pretend to leave and lurk about reading responses hoping to find someone who will be sad they are gone. It is a pathetic attempt at some sort of external validation. They need it so badly they come on and pretend to be great zen thinkers, and when their wisdom is questioned they pout. They threaten to take their ball and go home..the problem is it isn't their ball. They wind up stomping around in circles hoping someone will come in and save them. They cannot even manage to unsubscribe to the dang list...come on! no one is that pathetic in real life for long. If your delusional "spiritual" path cannot stand a rough and tumble email list, how is it going to fare in a hurricane, typhoon, or a earthquake?..how about a war, famine, or violent crime? If your way does not support you when the going gets rough it is better you quit it now than go somewhere truly dangerous and find out there it is useless to you. The day someone can show me how to click a button and make a hurricane go away, or stop the accident that is about to happen to my family, or stop the bullet that is exiting the barrel of the gun that is pointed at my chest, then I will agree that this list has a chance of being just as harmful or dangerous as real life. Until then I will let the people who pretend to be fragile go. It is better they leave than continue pretending that putting their fingers in their ears and chanting "I can't hear you, I can't hear you" makes the storm go away...or anything better. These tempests in a teapot are not really threatening to anyone. To pretend they are is stretching credulity beyond all reason. If this is too rough..then get something, anything that works for you in the real world, because baby this is a piece of cake compared to a real love relationship, a real loss of a real job, a real death in a real family, or a real natural disaster. If if does not work for you here, it won't work for you much of anywhere. I do not consider it compassionate to coddle a whiner, to take care of someone pretending to be an invalid, or to let a delusion of having an anchor in a storm let someone wander into a real storm armed with only a delusion. Real zen works in a real storm. Tranquility in a storm is tranquility indeed, tranquility in a safe harbor is only the illusion of tranquility. I am not about coddling somebody's illusion of tranquility. I have worked with enough differently abled people in my life to have a pretty good idea when someone is really hindered, or only pretending to be. As Jody often points out, a person who really cannot see does not want to be treated like they are not able. Someone who wants to be treated like they are not able has another agenda entirely. Whether they can see in real life or not. Even a perfect storm on an email list is only a tempest in a teapot. To even think this should be compared to a person being bullied at work, or harassed by thugs on the way home from school is pure excrement of the male of the bovine species. No matter what the credentials of the academic who preaches from his ivory tower are. Be Well Fudo ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
