Just a correction, I said I thought Gold's was on the opposite of the
road to where I expected it to be--I thought it was 8 O'Brien Street,
rather than the 9 it was in actuality.
On Apr 9, 5:50=A0pm, dolf <dolfb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> (repost with some grammar corrections)
>
> -- Has buddhism lost its centre of faith?
>
> Archbishop Joachim Meisner of the western city of Cologne, made a
> broad attack on modern culture in a speech to inaugurate a local
> museum on Friday 14 September 2007: "When culture is disconnected from
> divine reverence, the cult descends into ritualism and culture
> degenerates. It loses its centre," he said, shocking Germans with the
> Nazi term, 'degenerate'." [Copyright and Courtesy: The Australian
> newspaper, by Madeline Chambers in Berlin, September 16, 2007]
>
> To illustrate this point, I'll brief convey my experience of going to
> the Gold's World of Judica as bookshop situated at O'Brien Street,
> Bondi.
>
> O'Brien St is particularly difficult to navigate precisely because it
> takes several unusal dog's leg twists and turns from Old South Head
> Rd, you have to turn left at the 3rd roundabout and then you find at
> Hall Street, it again makes a deviation. =A0Gold's bookshop ends up
> being on the opposite side of the road where you expect it to be.
>
> Suffice to say I got lost yesterday and telephoned the bookshop for
> directions. =A0Oh you are very close she said, Hall Street intersects
> with Campbell Street at the beach. =A0We're near the beach just off Hall
> Street in O'Brien Street. =A0That this women was in fact being haughily
> unhelpful to strangers but actually failing to give precise directions
> as I have done, in order for a person to get from A to B. =A0That the
> directions she had conveyed were of no value and she might as well
> have said, 'GO TO HELL!'.
>
> Its a long way to walk from Kings Cross out to Gold's World of Judica,
> and I was already tired so I went home.
>
> The next day I made the journey again.
>
> Upon entering the bookshop, I asked the male shop assistant if I could
> pick his brains with respect to directing me to the most suitable
> books that he had in the obtuse field of interest that I had.
>
> I explained to him that I was researching Martin Heidegger's 1931/1932
> lectures on Being and Time (one can easily see that if he did not
> regard the Sabbath of the Jews, how a Nhilistic mind and attitude
> could possess such a culture) and his summation of the philosopher's
> Hegel and Kant.
>
> That I was able to harmonise such philosophical rhetorical form with
> Jewish Torah and Kabbalistic semantics--that I often write in empathy
> with Torah Scholars from an American Jewish www-site known as
> Torah.org.
>
> The man at the bookshop was not interested in providing any assistance
> to me--he displayed all the empathy of a Nazi death camp Commandant.
>
> I conveyed to him that I thought he might be better acquainted with
> the books as stocked within his shop. =A0I further conveyed that I was
> not happy with the less than benevolent attitude conveyed by the
> female member of staff. =A0That it was a long walk from the city, and
> her directions were not at all helpful.
>
> I then left the shop because it was apparent to me that there was a
> pathological hatred towards me being directed by the bookshop
> owner.
>
> In fact I formed the view, that given the Australian Jewish
> Community's lack of outrage at the Federal Government's 2004 passage
> of the Marriage laws: 'marriage means the union of a male and female
> to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life'
> made to the Marriage and Family Law Act, together with the a lack of
> concern relating to Heidegger's conceptions of 'Logos as Infinity and
> its logical grounding in Chronos', 'Contradiction of a thing' relating
> to the autonomic transformative prototype and 'finite and absolute
> cognition' with respect to marriage laws and the Sabbath, that these
> representatives of Judaism have indeed lost their centre of faith--
> that they are a cult which has become disconnected from Divine
> reverence--and descended only into ritualism as a degerate culture.
>
> I had with me a copy of my current chapter titled 'Big Bang In Theory
> and Practice: Allahu Akbar or Ali BaBa Magic?' which I had every
> intention of bestowing upon them--but as there was exhibited a
> palpable hostility and a singular lack of helpfulness, I refused.
>
> On my return walk at the Bondi Mall, just prior to the Bondi central
> trans****t hub where there was an emergency services, bomb evacuation
> exercise the night before, I saw a magician performing his tricks.
> There was a Jewish man standing there. =A0I approached him with my
> chapter sealed in a plain envelop and said, I went to the bookshop
> just now and they didn't have any books I needed for my particular
> interest. =A0And then gave him the do***ent.
>
> Now back to the consideration that Buddhism too has lost its centre of
> faith. =A0That centre of faith which is conveyed by its various statues
> is an autonomic right represented by an anthropic figure. =A0That the
> centre of its faith is the Dalai Lama, who's relation****p with his
> people can be described in the same way as the relation****p between a
> centre of a circle and its cir***ference.
>
> That his being in exile is a betrayal of that autonomic right--that
> the most effective action he can take, is to cease the emotional
> manipulation of the people's autonomic right which is held hostage by
> him whilst he is in exile. The effect is like wagging a pencil, a
> small tenuity as action at one end causes massive swing and disheval
> at the other.
>
> Australians are deceptively dishonest about an adequate contest
> against Dutch colonialsim. In all other respects Australia's
> aspirational goals towards establi****ng a Commonwealth--as notionally
> the product of German Intellectualism, and which in routing the
> Indigenous Dutch Australian population into a Territory is absent of
> any underlying unifying autonomic anthropic cosmological principle
> such as the Sabbath or the Septet mathematical form implicit to the
> GRAPPLE HOMOIOITC NOUMENON. By the manifest of an Irish presence with
> its own agenda for a national identity, which has been historically
> bestowed as pestilence upon this nation as a product of British
> Imperialism, its culture is indistinguishable by its essential
> character from German Fascism.
>
> Do we see Indigenous Dutch Australian's engaged in hostility towards
> their fascist Irish task masters--or for that matter the lack of human
> rights which exists under British Imperialism. =A0Certainly there is
> impatience at their haughty indifference, but it does not lead to
> riotous and irrational hypomanic behaviour due to hyper activity as
> the manner in which Free Tibetian protests are made.
>
> Its all to simplistic to renounce China. =A0A far better approach is for
> Tibet to regain its dignity related to the autonomic right--but so
> long as the Dalai Lama remains in exile, the Tibetians have lost their
> centre of faith.
>
> - dolf
>
> http://www.grapple.id.au/
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