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|    Ned Ludd to Venus as a boy    |
|    Re: A Koan for our atheist friends    |
|    11 Oct 24 14:28:07    |
      XPost: alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia, alt.bu       dha.short.fat.guy       XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen       From: nedludd@ix.netcom.com              On 10/11/2024 2:10 PM, Venus as a boy wrote:       > Am 10.10.2024 um 12:18 schrieb Creon:       >> On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:39:32 +0200, Venus as a boy wrote:       >>       >>> Nothing will come from nothing       >>       >> Where does that come from?       >>       >> There's a guy that posts as "Michael Christ" in alt.atheism       >> that keeps saying such things. Scratch that -- he's started       >> posting as "In the Name of Jesus".       >>       >> Clearly, he doesn't understand quantum virtual particles...       >>       >> Do you?       >>       >       > Yes probably.Do you understand the absolute and total nothing?                      fade to uncool              the elements dissolve       the arm withers the legs fail       voice is stilled       static... a buzzing...       gone... gone... gone...       goodly well and truly gone       so? ha!              does gone have marks?       what are the signs of gone?       does gone ever change?       in time all things are perfectly gone              when will gone come...?       these are the heralds of gone       chanted by the ancient gibbon...       a mounting love of show and luxury       a widening gap 'twixt rich and poor       an obsession with sex !       freakishness in the arts       masked as creativity...       these are the heralds of gone              when it ends will it end or       will it fail to end faced with       what? what mark? what sign?              whipped and beaten beatific       beyond thought catching sight       of some revelation not here       but gone somewhere gone       and unable to speak it or of it       or about it voice gone       finally gone do you hear it       or of it or about it or do you hear       nothing?       without an ear will you hear nothing       with certainty       as you fade to uncool?              - Ned              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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