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Posted by Butcho on 4/20/2009, 5:19 pm, in reply to "I can't escape the imperfection"
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--Previous Message-- : Just kidding Steve. I have provisionally come : to the conclusion that I don't understand : anything. : : My guru (a red frog) assures me that I am : one step away from despair, and she claims : when I reach that point I will be in the : kindergarten of wisdom. She further claims : that if I am smart enough, I will learn how : to stay there as long as I breathe. : : If I fail, she says, I will be doomed to : think that I am wise. To tell you the : truth, it scares the hell out of me. : : I told her I knew nothing, but she says that : is no different from a person who brags that : they do know something. I guess I am : s.o.l., but yet I have a six pac in the frig : and some matzo ball soup that I got trading : away some Costco lasagna. So maybe : everything is perfect after all? : : love, : rat : : --Previous Message-- : At the risk of coming across as a : psychoanalyst and (worse) a snob, allow me : to suggest that you simply don't get it, : Butcho, when it comes to the view you : characterize as 'Everything is Perfect.' : : As a theist with mystical insights, you : struggle to reconcile the competing impulses : of obedience and freedom. You want to honor : and pay homage to a 'greater force' (what : you call 'The Creator') while at the same : time you sense a unitive oneness in all that : there is. : : I don't envy the path of the Christian : Mystic. It's a hard and rocky road to : navigate. : : "And as such some argue that since : this is the case that there is nothing that : needs to be done for everything is perfect : as it is for nothing is separate. Yes and : no." : : Yes and no, indeed. And that's the part I : think you don't get. Or don't feel. : : Everything is indeed perfect as is. Even my : longings are perfect. Even my confusion is : perfect. Even my not-knowing is perfect. : : I cannot escape the perfection. I cannot be : outside of the perfection. : : Some are able to juggle the two competing : views. To keep them up in the air at the : same time. : : The view that holds that all manner of thing : is well. That there is nothing fundamental : or essential 'to do.' And the view that : holds that there are things to do. Places : to be where we are not. : : And here's the best part: Even this sense : of mine of a 'juggle'--however artificial a : construct it may be--is perfect. : : I cannot escape the perfection. : : rat, Yeah, I have pretty much came to the same oonclusion as well. You don't understand anything at all. I don't know how you keep your hat on. Tape, some of Stevo's unitarian duct tape wherein your head and your hat become a unitive one. Thank god for duct tape. Speaking of warts. How do you get rid of 'em? Of course it goes without saying that Stevo loves his, his warts that is. Come to think of it a big hairy wart hanging from the end of his nose would be perfect. Butcho

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Message Thread: "Faith in the Heart". - Butcho 4/18/2009, 10:51 am Re: "Faith in the Heart". - Butcho 4/20/2009, 7:55 am Re: "Faith in the Heart". - Steve 4/20/2009, 12:21 pm I can't escape the imperfection - rat 4/20/2009, 12:55 pm Re: I can't escape the imperfection - Steve 4/20/2009, 1:07 pm Re: I can't escape the imperfection - Butcho 4/20/2009, 5:11 pm a rat gets froggy - Butcho 4/20/2009, 5:19 pm Re: "Faith in the Heart". - Butcho 4/20/2009, 4:39 pm Re: "Faith in the Heart". - Steve 4/20/2009, 5:02 pm Duct Tape and other Unitive Things. - Butcho 4/20/2009, 8:00 pm « Back to thread

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