Andromeda:
seth tapper:
It is interesting - to thread jack again - that as my mind becomes more unified the yogi personality is merging into my ordinary life personality and instead of acting more whoo whoo and airy and sweet I am just the same old arrogant dick I have always been. The content is accurate, but the style is probably not too skillful. It feels like I am finally comfortable enough and have no doubt bubblling in the subconscious so I can just let my hair down.
"Arrogant dicks" aren't welcome here.
This is your first official warning. If you continue in this fashion, you will be permanently banned from this forum.
Kind regards,
Andromeda (moderator)
aloha (aloha, aloha) andromeda (immoderator),
Wow.
You really don't get this guy. He exercises his freedom of speech with a certain fairly consistent vulgarity, a style obviously meant to take some of the veneration and assumed holiness (prissiness) away from the dhamma, in his noble compaign of dereifying and re-expressing the Way, making it lively, present and accessible by being more insightful and wiser than most while at the same time being a regular "arrogant dick." Vulgarity should not be confused with obscenity. Yes, the man in a style of self-deprecation called himself an "arrogant dick"; but through hundreds of posts he has abundantly
proven that he is
not an arrogant dick. He is in fact thoughtful, considerate, helpful and loving, giving generously of his time to all sorts here (even you). What this man does is
art and for you to threaten to ostracize him if he doesn't alter a proven winning style - notably respectful of you throughout - is clearly an abuse of power. This forum would be significantly diminished by his muzzling or exile. I personally wouldn't ever post or visit here again. Seth is a breath of stinky air, in fine zen style. If you run him off he'll probably write a book in his inimitable vernacular, and then how would you feel?
Shame on you. Have you no sense of humor? (wink)
I didn't read the article either - slap my wrist? Try make me feel small/ guilty? (Et tu, chris?) I eventually did read seth's synopsis and that was more than enough for me.
I'm no special you-scratch-my-back-I'll scratch-yours butt buddy of seth's but he's as enlightened as anyone around near as I can tell and twice as entertaining, with the added advantages of transparent sincerity, wit and brevity.
He is, in fact, many things that I am not. Yet he strikes a chord. You are more striking discord, eh? You are annoyed and you can shake your stick at people.
Wow.
terry (ich bin ein arrogant dick) (I hijack virtually every thread I post on - not proud of it, but there it is; I used to admire how people here cut each other a lot of slack, and thought that this forum was essentially self-policing and, indeed,
not necessarily a "safe place" because free speech was respected even if occasionally vehement, vulgar or vicious... I am bewildered as to what moral "rule" seth violated in any of his posts, or how he might be expected to conform to whatever ruling is issued on the spot, in a fit of pique. Officially, no less.)
a story: diogenes (of synope, "the cynic") famously masturbated in public, at least once... called upon to defend his act, he avowed that it was a shame one could not stroke one's belly and satisfy hunger...