Guest guest Posted February 15, 2003 Report Share Posted February 15, 2003 As a Xaoist, this sounds as if Quakerism is being presented essentially as a kind of Zen, then? On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 10:50 AM, wrote: > My history teacher, at a Catholic school, once turned a class into a > question/answer session about Quakerism (for the life of me, I can't think > why) and the other girls had real trouble understanding what I was saying. > " Who tells you what to do? " was a question I remember quite clearly. They > really couldn't grasp that there is no " on high " authority who decrees > stuff. In other conversations, I have been told that Quakers are clearly > hedonists (hmmm - that would come as a shock to many of the Quakers I > know) > and people have got bogged down in how the decision making process works > or > the whole question of discerning the movement of the Spirit without > grasping > the whole and I don't think that Quakerism can easily be dissected that > way. > " I reject any role that puts me as a representative of a group of people. " --Günter Grass, German writer & artist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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