I am usually textbook-style assertive.BlackBird wrote:While I think you've made a decent case, and I'm sorry because I feel like I'm nitpicking: I was hoping for an actual example, given the fact you stated categorically that one of the core problems is something existent, and yet you gave no such existent examples of such things happening - Just hypotheticals. That'd be perfectly fine if your previous post hadn't been so definite in saying:
I think a better phrasing might have been 'one of the core problems people might faceI think that one of the core problems around these jet-set monks (or the radical Buddhists in Burma etc.) actually has to do with the doubts that the critics themselves have about the Dhamma - but which they refuse to face and deal with, so they take out their frustration on those they perceive as "underperforming Buddhists."
Or 'actually has to do with the doubts that the critics themselves might have about the Dhamma.
Again I'm sorry, because I get the sense that I'm acting like a bit of a prick here calling you out (especially after our tango in the other thread), but I have taken exception to the way you tend to speak quite categorically of your thoughts as if they are solid truths when they are by no means a definite thing, but are 'potentials' and hypotheticals as opposed to concrete things that are occuring.
But as I've been noticing, some people don't see this, and instead tend to interpret the "I think," "In my opinion" etc. that introduce my sentences, either as claims of superiority or some such, or simply don't see them at all (and then jump to conclusions).