[Buddha-l] Cultivating Cults

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 5-4-2010 18:41, Richard P. Hayes schreef:
> On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 08:38 -0600, Jim Peavler wrote:
>
>    
>> Do I require intervention?  Can Professor Hayes save me?
>>      
> Given that you're even farther into advanced geezerhood and anecdotage
> than I, Dr Peavler, I suspect you're pretty much used to being confused
> by now and require neither relief from that condition nor further
> considerations to exacerbate it.
>
>    
The urge to be saved is a highway to any cult, in this case Hayesism.
It came to me last week that the ataraxia that overcame the old sceptics 
might not be very much different from the joys that appear to come from 
belief in a cult. In both cases you just stop wobbling about truth and 
that kind of ridiculous things.
Richard increases the wobbles in his students, basically because of 
sadist motives I presume. The ancedotes of Jim however are not much 
better, because students must decide what they mean. Ages of Bible- and 
other textstudies reveal that in this process belief is postponed 
indefinitely.
In Hollywood they know better: no wobble, no anecdote, no Phd, just 
Namyoho rengekyo!

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Erik

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