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From: tim@unc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A burden both ways
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Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 22:41:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 10 22:41:43 1983
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	A challenge to non-believers.  Disprove	the Nirvana of Buddha,
or admit that in fact all that lives is	Illusion, and the veracity of
the Four Noble Truths.

	That's right, friends, Larry has converted me to his way of
seeing things!	I now see that the people who were reported to be
witnesses to His miraculous processions	were not, as I had believed,
simply something made up by later commentators!	 I see that there is
no way that such a thing could have occurred: the TV network news
magazines would	have jumped all	over it!  And everyone living then was
a bright, educated person, not easily taken in by big-talking Prophets
of the Truth who claimed to have witnessed miracles!

	After all, what	possible personal gain could there have	been
for the	early Buddhists?  They saw how they were scorned by the
Hindus.	 It would have been much easier	to just	go back	and become
good little worshippers	of their pagan deities,	but NO!!  They STUCK
with their difficult course, STUCK I say, and WHY DO YOU THINK THAT
WAS, my	friends?  I'LL TELL YOU	WHY IT	WAS!!!	The only reasonable
explanation, and this has been supported by many Buddhist lawyers, is
that they WITNESSED THE	NIRVANA!

	Let the	heathen	try to disprove	that, my friends.  Remember
that as	you walk through this hideous, atheistic pit we	call
net.religion.  Remember	that Buddhism STANDS OR	FALLS solely on	YOUR
BELIEF IN THE NIRVANA!

	And to those who keep their heads in the sand, refusing	to
recognize the consequences of Avidhya (primal sin) and their own
delusions of selfhood, you will be born again and again, EACH TIME FALLING
INTO A LOWER CYCLE OF REBIRTH!!!  Let's	see those Christians match
that, my friends.  Why,	there are documented cases from	reliable
witnesses that tell of people having hot lead poured in their ears,
sexual abuse by	vast and hideous demons, and things more grisly	even
than that.

	It doesn't matter if you believe this or not.  You will	be
judged by your own illusionary self and	thrown into those fiery	lakes,
so far from Nirvana, unless of course you can disprove this.  But you
can't.	Nyah nyah nyah.  So choke on it.

Tim Maroney

P.S.  My girlfriend has	bet me five dollars that Paul Dubuq
	will reply to this and say that	I am a Buddhist.