06-10-2012, 12:00 AM
quantumshaman wrote
ongbird wrote:
quantumshaman wrote:
No, but what DOES indicate NOT being on the path is spending more hours every day on forums or in chat rooms (the latter in particular - which are the breeding ground of conflict and gossip-mongering). Can't serve two masters. Either one is DOING the path, or one is sitting addle-brained in a chatroom TALKING about what one is NOT doing, creating and dispensing rumors, and generally wasting tremendous amounts of time and energy that can never be regained.
I disagree. I don't think you can really tell if someone (say a colleague or acquaintance) is on the Path (or not) unless you know them intimately. What we, as warriors -- do with our free time or as folly really may not be much reflection of our Path or inner (spirit) Work.
I think you know what I'm talking about. There are a LOT of persqueeters hanging out in Toltec chat rooms who have been there for years, pandering the same old rhetoric. And actually, I DO know some of them more intimately than I would like, and see no change in their status since I first made their acquaintance years ago. Nothing has changed. Real warriors have precious little time for that kind of folly - certainly not on a daily basis.
Maybe I see it somewhat differently than some due to some recent brushes with mortality. Heh. Hard to find much of value in a chat room when one knows for a fact that any moment may be her last. Somehow, at that point, all the gossiping and sniping and bullshit seem to be nothing more than the prattlings of phantoms.
Yes... I think you can discern that I've "had it" when it comes to chat rooms, and would strongly encourage any real warrior to avoid them like the plague. No good comes of it.
Unless I'm mistaken, one of your favorite mantras has to do with direct experience. To my knowledge, you have no direct experience of the chat I host. Therefore you are making assumptions about which you know nothing. You're still welcome to join if you would like some first hand experience and perhaps cease with the innuendos.
ongbird wrote:quantumshaman wrote:
No, but what DOES indicate NOT being on the path is spending more hours every day on forums or in chat rooms (the latter in particular - which are the breeding ground of conflict and gossip-mongering). Can't serve two masters. Either one is DOING the path, or one is sitting addle-brained in a chatroom TALKING about what one is NOT doing, creating and dispensing rumors, and generally wasting tremendous amounts of time and energy that can never be regained.
I disagree. I don't think you can really tell if someone (say a colleague or acquaintance) is on the Path (or not) unless you know them intimately. What we, as warriors -- do with our free time or as folly really may not be much reflection of our Path or inner (spirit) Work.
I think you know what I'm talking about. There are a LOT of persqueeters hanging out in Toltec chat rooms who have been there for years, pandering the same old rhetoric. And actually, I DO know some of them more intimately than I would like, and see no change in their status since I first made their acquaintance years ago. Nothing has changed. Real warriors have precious little time for that kind of folly - certainly not on a daily basis.
Maybe I see it somewhat differently than some due to some recent brushes with mortality. Heh. Hard to find much of value in a chat room when one knows for a fact that any moment may be her last. Somehow, at that point, all the gossiping and sniping and bullshit seem to be nothing more than the prattlings of phantoms.
Yes... I think you can discern that I've "had it" when it comes to chat rooms, and would strongly encourage any real warrior to avoid them like the plague. No good comes of it.
Unless I'm mistaken, one of your favorite mantras has to do with direct experience. To my knowledge, you have no direct experience of the chat I host. Therefore you are making assumptions about which you know nothing. You're still welcome to join if you would like some first hand experience and perhaps cease with the innuendos.