
Posted by Butch on 5/7/2008, 8:30 pm, in reply to "Re: With Friends like you who needs an enema?"
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--Previous Message--
: Nothing new there. Ennui gas has been
: around
: for thousands of years, emitted from the
: rear ends of countless gurus, prophets,
: priests, masters, and gods.
:
: It goes something like this:
:
: "I know something you don't know. Your
: pleasures and happiness are illusions.
: There's something really really pleasurable
: and happy out there, but you don't see it
: because you're not enlightened.
:
: To be enlightened, you have to do things and
: work hard. You have to leave everything you
: know behind. What you've been doing up
: until now has been wrong.
:
: But--if you get very sick or very old or
: very tired--or say you develop Alzheimer's
: Disease or move somewhere where there are no
: books, Internet, gurus, prophets, priests,
: or masters--you're out of luck. There's no
: hope that you'll ever be enlightened or know
: happiness, because you won't know what to
: do."
:
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:
: Friends?,
:
: I find your words depressing. I hope you are
: happy.
:
: Butch
:
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:
: Butch,
:
: I've always honored and respected your
: honesty, something you may have found is not
: always honored and respected on these here
: Internets. lol.
:
: What is it that you find depressing, friend?
:
: Steve
:
:
:
Steve,
I was just trying to enlighten things up a bit.
Dimitri: I've got to admit, Tasso, this epistemology stuff is good to know.
Tasso: Good? In what way? What do you mean by "good"?
Dimitri: Before I answer that, I have a question for you. Do you know what "pain in the ass" means?
Butch
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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