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Do you agree no spiritual advancement has broken thru here since you've been a regular, Swami?

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Swami's more (in my eyes, hence a forum) the spiritual LEADER of this board, and not the other way around. Most people who preach about spirituality on this forum say very little of actual substance. Swami may speak down to earth but I'll be god damned if most of what he says isn't deep and enlightening as hell.

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That's a pretty bold claim since the rest of your post is in reply to a post directed at Swami. 

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You should take creative literature next year. Almost every high school in the country offers it! 

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I'd like to agree but that's just ridiculous.

Adversity makes strength but barriers don't.

If the adversity is inflexible it isn't adversity, it's a barrier.

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I find that view to be incredibly narrow-minded -- at least as narrow-minded as you would paint the opposing view, and quite possibly a great deal moreso.
Spiritual growth does not always mean gluing more macaroni onto your plate, or using more gold spray paint.
It can as often mean stripping the paint and removing the decorations.

If I were to post something and recieve responses detailing to me the how's and why's of angelic intervention in my situation, or why the goblins are angry with me, or exactly which type of aliens are responsible for whatever I was discussing -- I would not be OFFENDED by such responses, though I may not agree with them.  If I'm reading things right, though, it seems you are offended by views expressed contrary to your own -- or at least contrary to what you deem to be 'spiritual'?  A bit further, would it be accurate to say that you take umbrage to the suggestion of disbelief?

Now, as this is a forum for the open discussion of beliefs, how would you presume to be the one to decide which beliefs -- or disbeliefs -- are valid to be discussed?  Is that not pride, your ego telling you that you know better than another?  Or perhaps the ego's fearful self-preservation -- often it acts similarly, as was demonstrated in that thread you mentioned, swami's thread about the PM he recieved in which a gentleman's ego caused him to attribute marijuana, not his sister's choices in life, for the mistakes she has amde.

I tweaked your nose just now;  I'll own up to that one.
Point is..
I'm not so proud as to claim that certain views should not be freely expressed here.  To do so would STIFLE spiritual growth.  All beliefs are valid -- for discussion.

How would you feel if I told you that you posting your beliefs was interfering with my spiritual growth?

Anyhow, the sin birds* are calling, the beer's long passed into mere memory, so I must be asleep.

*i hate those birds -- the ones that herald in the dawn.  though I don't exactly believe in any sort of 'sin', I found it an apt term for those noisy squawkers who let you know you've been up too late doing something you shouldn't have been. 

ok, ok, i admit it.  the term's something I came up with walking back to my dorm room after my first acid trip, and I've been using it ever since.  some things stick