I noticed the change in what you are ‘quoting’ as if it was what you said to me, but here you changed it a bit, taking out the ‘we’. (though the substitution was actually ‘need’ for ‘mean’, you ended up taking a bit more responsibility for having a person desire, rather than reporting a universal need.) Hard, for you, to actually concede anything openly. isn’t it? Still using that word need however. Can’t quite come down to the human level and say you want a certain kind of context and for this context to focus the discussion in the way you want it. These are wants/desires not needs. But I appreciate the implicit concession while noting the lack of maturity to openly acknowledge the concession.
As far as my post, my post was not a general intellectual contraption, it was a pointing ouf of a very specific set of actions you took, using words, here in this thread. It could not possibly have been more grounded as far as context, and contained, very clearly in quotes, the specific actions I was commenting on.
Earlier in this thread and in other threads I have given extremely specific ideas about what specific actions you could take to approach Buddhism if you were truly interested in it. You have shown no interest in that. So that set of specific suggestions and that context was something I did not repeat.
So, in regard to what I wanted to focus on, your mindfucks, there was no lack of context or specific concrete references.
As far as what you want, I am not interested in what you want. So, while you characterize my post as a general intellectual contraption and it was not…yes, it was certainly not trying to solve those issues that you want us to focus on and deal with.
But that’s obvious. There is nothing there that could possibly mislead you into thinking I was trying to resolve those issues of yours.