On 17 May, 00:48, MariannaKaripi...@
gmail.com wrote:
> On May 16, 3:21Â pm, HG wrote:
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>>> On May 15, 7:16Â pm, HG wrote:
>>>>> On May 14, 12:58Â pm, "Tom"
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>>>>>>> I Â know nothing about the tooth fairy or tooth-fairy pinata. What
>>>>>>> is it?
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>>>>>> The tooth fairy is an American folklore figure who trades a child's
>>>>>> baby teeth as they fall out for a small amount of money or a small
>>>>>> gift.
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>>>>> I was not sure if you were talking about that..., Sometimes all of you
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>>>>> secrets codes (or slang) and I get confused).
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>>>> They are neither secret codes, nor are they slang.
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>>>> It's just that you are way, way, way too stupid to follow our
>>>> conversations.
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>>> Â I'm sorry, "Sister HG", you can't do that ( i.e. you can't think).
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>> Your attempts to insult me are as stupid and useless as anything else you
>> write here.
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>> Calling me "Sister" does not insult me at all, since I don't think women are
>> in any way inferior to men.
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>> Â *anyone* with half a brain can read what you and I write to this newsgroup.
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> "Sometimes" all of you use some secrets codes (or slang) and I get
> confused).
The agenda of some people is to confuse rather than comunicate. It
makes them feel superior, strokes thier ego, and doesn't require much
more than formula thinking.
Some are so far gone with this self serving monkey talk that they are
woefully incapable of communcating any insightful criticism they may
stumble across.
Whilst saying the above, this direct way of criticising is probably
not the best way to communicate. It's not a skillfull way to
communicate. Already, most people have adopted the attitude of
'that's not me', and 'who is she to criticise?' :) A person shouldn't
use accusitory language in order to make a point, so the above is an
illustration of this.
A recent talk by Ajahn Munindo illustrates how the Buddha advised how
skillfull criticism should be made in order to effectively get a point
across. It comprises right mind, right time, right place and right
motivation. A skillfull criticism should not increase the suffering
of others of for yourself.
Munindo had put up a sign in an area of the monestary built for people
to stay on retreat. It said "Contentment is not the goal of practise,
contentment is the way". He did this because people were falling into
a B&B mode, and it is very easy for people to fall into
discontentment, even in a buddhist monestary. However, if you're
going to deliver criticism then you should do so from a perspective of
personal contentment, and this is something that needs to be
practised. If conscious contentment is not practised then we can fall
into habitual discontentment and the worldly tendancy towards
discontentment can spoil the good things in life. When people use
personal discontentment with others to criticise then it's not the
right motivation, and what tends to get communicated is not the point
they want to make - that get's lost, because other people hear thier
personal discontentment first. If someone else is coming from a
viewpoint of habitual personal discontentment, it tends to disqualify
them from communicating a meaningful point or criticism.
> I said SOMETIMES, sister HG, SOMETIMES...
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>> Â Then they can easily deduce which one of us
>> has a working brain
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