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I am a member of an Elite Family who you despise...ask me a question
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[quote:Logos666 660118:MV8xNjEwODVfMTE5MDEyOTlfOTNDMDlDNUU=] Nobody taught either Ramana or Bernadette Roberts or Eckhart Tolle or Douglas Harding to any degree worth mentioning and relevant to their realizations. We know Ajahn Chah's sources as well, there is no msytery regarding that and they certainly did not come from some mystical source. This, BTW, is a point well exposed by Jiddu Krishnamurti who in fact had a lot of inluence from higher beings. But regarding his final realization, he claims they are irrelevant, he calls those "incidental". In the case of Bernadette Roberts, her sources are well known since she never read or heard anything else than catholic sources, and having been a Carmelite nun during her teenage years, that was mainly St. Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and maybe some Meister Eckhart, sources she openly admits and which she claims leave hardly any indicators of how to reach beyond unio mystica to the complete transcendence of even a "self"-in-union-with-the-divine (into "divine only"). The influence she experienced from the spiritual guides in the monastery certainly did not add one jota to the progress to the no-self stage which she experienced only after 20 years after leaving the monastery. I could go on for ages, but it appears excepting silent onlookers, you are not really interested in the truth of such matters - especially if you (implicitly) claim ignorance and gullibility to be a quality without which you can't find (your idea of) truth. You haven't even been reading "Insider" well since he openly claims that the Divine can influence such people completely beyond an bloodline's influence. Of course gullible folks at GLP will know exactly whom the Divine influences exactly in which way. Yawn. [quote:Logos666 659902] '535' ... While [b]I am not convinced of either of the two[/b] [/quote] [quote:Logos666 659902] For the obtuse in short: Typos are no indicators for a lack of education, but [b]this is:[/b] Those would have only been typos, not examples of [b]a systematic ignorance of correct spelling[/b] [i][untypical of an educated Indian as well][/i]. [/quote] ______________ Pretty much all that was said as a reaction to what I said was either irrelevant to my points, wrong or [b]both[/b]. Given the level and emotionality of the replies, I will follow Insider's example and disengage from this thread soon and here only name one more example for the [b]third case mentioned[/b]. [quote:Anonymous Coward 659936] [i]"I exemplarily corrected some of my errors myself to point out that I am aware of my own typos."[/i] [b]Exemplary[/b], correct that word next time, you'll stop [i]looking like a twat[/i]. [/quote] "Exemplary" is an adjective, "exemplarily" is the corresponding adverb. "to correct" is a verb, hence... [quote:Anonymous Coward 659936][i]your intelligence. Which I might add seems way below mine.[/i] [/quote] These replies were loaded with this kind of ad hominem stuff, andother name for this: [quote:Logos666 659902] This logical fallacy is called "argumentum ad personam", even if it were true. [/quote] No matter how much I doubt that Insider is genuine, I believe he would feel ashamed to be "defended" on this kind of level. Sorry for busting another idol. People like "Insider" are always attractive to people who harbor the hope that things are simpler than they are and that empower ego (not Self) as the sole arbiter of truth and allow one to to proliferate adolescent anger anything that is beyond an uneducated ken. Bye. [/quote]
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