[Buddha-l] FW: Bourgeois Buddhism

[Federico Andino]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Jo <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:
> This thread has become ridiculously a scene of incompatible views because
> various contributors are talking at cross-purposes. It is you folks who are
> not being consistent.
>
> anthropology, then do that.  Anthropology is descriptive and relativistic.
> Today it has nothing to do with metaphysics, or truth with a capital T.
>
> merit, which in the 20th c. has been transformed into a gambling game, a
> veritable merit casino.
>
> Anyone with an ounce of compassion for animals or the environment should
> hang their heads in shame at the papanca to which this alleged merit making
> has gone.
>

Either this is a major unconscious response or the best metalanguage skit ever.

F