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May I also ask why you quit?
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alan wrote:May I also ask why you quit?
I felt that my life would better lived a bit differently.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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That is a decent answer. But most of us only know you through your dog-faced personae.
Who is the real Tilt?
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alan wrote:That is a decent answer. But most of us only know you through your dog-faced personae.
Who is the real Tilt?
Actually, it is a jackal. As for for the who is the real Tilt Billings, you'd have to ask Leo Kottke.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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tiltbillings wrote:
alan wrote:That is a decent answer. But most of us only know you through your dog-faced personae.
Who is the real Tilt?
Actually, it is a jackal. As for for the who is the real Tilt Billings, you'd have to ask Leo Kottke.
:cry: And I thought your name really was Tilt. "What a cool name," I thought to myself.
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Who is the real person hiding behind that jackal?
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thereductor wrote:
tiltbillings wrote:
alan wrote:That is a decent answer. But most of us only know you through your dog-faced personae.
Who is the real Tilt?
Actually, it is a jackal. As for for the who is the real Tilt Billings, you'd have to ask Leo Kottke.
:cry: And I thought your name really was Tilt. "What a cool name," I thought to myself.
It is a cool name. I got banned from E-Sandbox because one of the moderators lied about me and doctored an e-mail. I told the him that he could not keep me out of the sandbox. I waited two months, logged back on and other than using a different name I continued to post as I always had, fighting the same battle, quoting the same quotes including quoting myself, and I had a several year career in the sandbox until it self-destructed in a fit of hyper-orthodox-inquisitorial vigil-ism. Who was before I became tiltbillings? That I think I'll keep to myself, given my actual name and whatnot can be traced from it and I have had some bad experiences with that.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Fair enough. What fight made you so passionate?
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alan wrote:Fair enough. What fight made you so passionate?
In the Sandbox I was quite willing to defend the Theravada against the unthinking application of the notion that it was hinayana, and in the process give some critique of the Mahayana, the Grandiose Vehicle, which the Mahayanist hardliners got rather cranky about, never really seeing irony of that. And for that I was accused of being a one-issue poster, but actually I had at least two other issues which I liked going on about: the nature of nibbana and the that the bodhi of the arahant is no different from that of the Buddha.

Here I tend to be a bit more general in my focus, though dhammas are not "really existing part-less particles" is one of my new favorites.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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tiltbillings wrote:That I think I'll keep to myself, given my actual name and whatnot can be traced from it and I have had some bad experiences with that.
A prudent action, I must agree.

But really, Tilt is a cool name. ;)
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You are to be congratulated for your fight against mindless Mahayana nonsense.
*edit--I'll wait and see what response there may be to this*
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It's always nice to be relieved from maintaining secrets.

:spy:

Tilt is a cool name though... it reminds me of pinball machines.

Metta,
Retro. :)
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Greetings Alan,
alan wrote:What is this new thing of which you speak? Didn't quite get that.
*here is your opportunity to explain, and build a case, for your argument*
If you've seen and followed any of Tilt's discussions with Virgo, you'll get the idea. If that answer doesn't satisfy your curiosity, do a search on the word 'reify' or 'reified'.

Frankly I hope it doesn't come up again for a while, as I'm rather enjoying the break from it.

Metta,
Retro. :)
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Just edited my post, sorry.
The mention of the word "reify" makes me sick.
It just does.
Don't even know what it means, but it must be bad.
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Oh yeah!... :thumbsup:
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