Daniel

@stirling, Yesterday at 04:51 PM - I posted "Propaganda 101: The Target is a Good-Hearted-Person". It has nothing to do with you. yesterday at 05:14 PM - You asked me, " what this post is in reference to, and to which propaganda you are referring" yesterday at 05:17 PM - I answered: "Facts vs. Whispers in general" ( You didn't read or understand this, it's GENERAL ) yesterday at 05:20 PM - You asked: "Which post(s) in particular blah, blah, blah, ... " ( you ignored, that I said, GENERAL ) I laugh, because I can tell you're imagining yourself as the center of my attention yesterday at 05:25 PM - I tell you: "not yours" ( I think it's funny that you reacted so strongly to this, I take note. ) I send you a Private message: "I ask you, Do you honestly want to talk about my post. If so, we can chat about it." You read it, I wait, I wait, I wait. 12 minutes pass. You don;t reply. You don;t honestly want to talk about the post, or understand the context. You don't want to talk about it. You want to argue with me in public. i take note. You're not being honest. It's not about making sure I'm not attacking anyone. If so, you would have had a conversation in private like any other staff member. yesterday at 07:07 PM - You reply and ask why I can't answer? But I did. YOU IGNORED IT, because it didn't give you what you wanted to read. You were assuming IT MUST BE AN INSULT. I have no clue what you are talking about in this thread. Were you whispering? Were you fluffing up facts to exaggerate them, or something? I have no clue. yesterday at 07:43 PM - I showed you the answer, again. You still didn't read it. yesterday at 07:46 PM - I tell you, I'm not spending any of my energy to find new ways to write something that you're going to ignore. yesterday at 08:14 PM - I show you: You're asking for Particular, I answered you, It's general. By my count, it took you 4 tries to read the word GENERAL and stop the witch hunt.

OK. I'll go check. Since you deny it.

In your dreams, bro. I don't ask you anything other than to illustrate an error in your cognition, faulty thinking, and illogic when you PUSH it at me. If you were not on staff, I would ignore you.

I told you: "not yours". I do not read anything you write. I scroll past them. I told you my posts had nothing to do with you. You had kittens. You kept going, and going, and going. There was nothing insulting. You were over-reacting.

Of course I can. But your behavior discourages me. The question is: "What is ... ?" The question is not: "How do I ... ?"

OK. Good. You can't explain it. You don't have the words. Thank you. You had an experience. You decided that the experience is what ALL koans point to. Clearly. Got it. You found a quote somewhere that resonates with you. OK. No one taught you. No discourse. No text. No teacher. No words to explain it. Right. You don't have words for it. You had an experience. Now you talk about it. But you can't explain it. But you can't teach it. Whatever you learned, you can't explain it. Stirling, can you give me one good reason to take any of this seriously?

And start quacking like ducks...

Stirling, We aren't supposed to be interacting. It's in the best interests of the community. I thought you knew that. Yesterday, you broke the silence to poke me in the chest about some mysterious 'particular post' that had you doing backflips. How about this? Leave me alone. I have zero interest in what you have to offer. Zen is a tiny little curio among all the others in my knowledgebase. You do realize that your experiential understanding can be taught in about 5 minutes or less to anyone under the right conditions? Your lineage does not OWN these practices. They don't belong to you.

I feel you're being obstinate.

You said : Nothing to do, no where to go. That's solitary confinement. Not a gateless-gate, or anything relating to the topic It's nothing. Literally.

That doesn't answer the question. You "learned" it? Why the quotes? Did you learn it or not? So you can't explain it, right? You don't have words for it? No one taught you the right words?

Good for you Which is it? Did you learn it, or did you experience something that you cannot explain?

I missed it then. Oh well.

That's your answer? It's meaningless.

How do you describe "choosing indifference"? When is it useful? When is it dangerous? I'll give you a hint: it's taught in SERE.

Not true: choosing indifference is a bad paradox. It's in contrast to agnosticism ( the good natural version ) ( Few consider the distinction , especially if they deny all distinction. It's an ugly, bad-bad paradox. )

What's stopping you?

Bittersweet

Let me help you, A gateless-gate: do it, or not. It's open. There's no gate. The door is off the hinges.

Nope. That a cage, dude

The first koan I learned. Also the password on my wifi-hotspot.

Ah. Thank you. I have edited the post. LINK

You have my sympathy

I want to, but, I don't know how without influencing the answers in a negative way.

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