The narrower you draw the scope of your connections, the smaller the possibilities of your being holistically nourished by social interaction shrink. On the other hand, should you choose to expand the range of your connections above and beyond identifications and defenses rising from particular belief systems, the specifics of which are not all that essential in the grand scheme of things, you would effectively maximize your interactive potential in life.
Unfortunately beliefs and mythologies don't function as a straight procedural equation. People can get highly emotional and irrational over their beliefs, and particularly so when they feel their particular existential framework is under expressed, implied or assumed threat from contradicting views. Crossing through a number of religious communities over the years has shown me just how temporary, frail and superficial many relationships based on religion have been.
Should anyone wonder with my often pointed critique of common beliefs, I'm as a matter of fact against endorsing any given view as the final and ultimate word in metaphysics, including my own. All beliefs are subjective, inasmuch as experience itself is a subjective phenomenon. One pet future utopia of mine is a world where the humanity at large has evolved to a point where metaphysical relativism is so widely taken as a self-evident value that the mere concept of religious friction is a barely intelligible oxymoron.
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Yea wow your such a radical!
LOL
Familiar with Paul Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement? Where would you say your comments fit, overall?
Like most of the stuff you have written since leaving the cult confines, none of it really makes any sense.
It's just psycho-babble of a mind with no focus, no base or concept that there are higher beings than himself.
You did a good job of masquerading as an intelligent guy for a while, but since leaving the Gaudiya sect you have definitely shown yourself to be a mental midget with an extremely exaggerated estimation of yourself.
Somehow, when I read your blog I feel like a voyeur living in a high rise condo watching some pervert on the other side of the street through a telescope masturbating in front of the window knowing that others are watching.
I guess as long as the curtain is open I will continue to watch, but the show is far from amusing.
It's just pathetic.
Maybe you better check the birth records of yourself.
You might have been born with Downs Syndrome.
Vegman: Like most of the stuff you have written since leaving the cult confines, none of it really makes any sense.
It does make sense that most of the stuff I've written outside the cult confines don't make much sense to someone inside the cult confines. Really. It does.
It's just psycho-babble of a mind with no focus, no base or concept that there are higher beings than himself.
And I suppose you see and chat with these higher beings on a frequent basis? From where I look at things, something like that may well be going on in your head.
Somehow, when I read your blog I feel like a voyeur living in a high rise condo watching some pervert on the other side of the street through a telescope masturbating in front of the window knowing that others are watching.
Now let me get this long sentence straight.
1. You feel like a voyeur living in a high rise condo.
2. You are watching some pervert on the other side of the street through a telescope.
3. You are masturbating in front of the window knowing that others are watching.
Hey, I'm all for tolerance with your high rise condo voyeurism. Whatever gets you going. I don't quite know yet what to think of someone reading my writings and masturbating, but I guess that's better than wanking to my likeness. Anywhoo, you may want to read up on homokaasu, just in case.
See, this proves you can't even follow a simple sentence or paragraph but will read all sorts of unintended meanings into something.
No wonder you didn't make in the Gaudiya society. You can't even read a simple sentence and understand what the writer is trying to say.
Seriously, check the birth records.
Your Dad might have been a Muslim with Downs Syndrome.
Vegman: See, this proves you can't even follow a simple sentence or paragraph but will read all sorts of unintended meanings into something.
I think your paragraphs may be so challenging because you are para-graphically challenged. Challenged way off the graph.
Seriously, check the birth records. Your Dad might have been a Muslim with Downs Syndrome.
I don't think my Dad was down with Muslim syndrome, he was equally irreverent of people from all faiths.
Oh I see. So this is what's bugging you. You're envious because I was raised by human parents, while you had to share your formative years with swamp alligators. That would explain the challenging nature of our exchanges.
See, your psychic powers are totally retarded.
I grew up in Indiana where even a little yard lizard does not live.
I moved to Florida about 14 years ago after living in California for about 12 years.
I know you are jealous because you have to live in some Hellish corner of Europe where the Sun doesn't shine.
If you ever want to come and see some real Alligators, then come to Florida and I will show you around.
I don't hate you.
I am always looking to help the mentally handicapped and spiritually disabled.
Well good for you, Mother Theresa of the spiritually derelict. Your compassion really shines through in every comment you posted. Thanks for stopping by.
Yep, Mr. Mom. You are about 3 years older than my son.
But, fortunately, he is a normal person whose mind hasn't been bent by some bizarre cult.
I did not have him indoctrinated into the Hare Krishna cult.
He went to public school and is now going to the community college to get his degree and certifications.
You would probably like him, but he is good kid.
He is a normal guy.
I certainly never wanted some mentally deranged cult fanatic like you for a son.
He is not a Hare Krishna.
He probably thinks it is crazy.
He might be right.
You are living proof how the cult can butcher the mind of a young person.
Speaking of people who enjoy exposing themselves before the public, I'd say you rank pretty high yourself in the extraordinary league of exhibitionists.
Vegman: I certainly never wanted some mentally deranged cult fanatic like you for a son.
So you didn't want to have me as a son. What went wrong? Forgot to use a condom?
Had your (other) son turned into a deranged cult fanatic, I'm sure you would have been glad, had he dropped it. Yet you seem to be very incensed by my dropping the cult. Is it that your personal failures in the cult led you to try to vicariously experience success in the cult through me?
When I was at the peak of my cult career, I recall you were a frequent fanboy and hangaround, who expected me to become the next messiah or something. It was flattering in a bizarre sort of way.
Now I seem to be some sort of a prodigal son to you. How touching. Was the "Muslim dad with down syndrome" actually something of a personal revelation from your side? Papa! I accept you the way you are!
Like most of the stuff you have written since leaving the cult confines, none of it really makes any sense.
Pardon me if I lost your trail of thoughts again. Let me backtrack.
1. I am mentally deranged (and my dad is suspect for being down with Muslim syndrome).
2. This is because my mind was butchered in a bizarre cult.
3. My writings in the post-cult period haven't made any sense to you.
It follows that stuff I wrote in the bizarre cult, when my mind was being butchered, made sense to you. Now, what does that tell about your own elevated levels of sanity?
Or, one might do well to question the basis and the need for "metaphysical relativism".
The need is the more obvious of the two, with its contribution to alleviating friction arising from fundamentalism, alongside other benefits.
And what about the basis? I suppose that's food for another write-up.
You are a prime example of why balance is so important. Vegman was very correct about your lack of focus and surplus of psycho babble.
You also do read all sorts of unintended meanings into statements, for what purpose? I don't know, because it's not getting you anywhere partner.
You speak so broadly about the hare krishna cult, and I can sense some angst for sure.
Get your mind straight and open your eyes to the world around you.
Let me get this straight before I start making assumptions, are you trying to be some sort of crusader? (and don't give me some empty answer that beats around the bush)
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