XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   Noah wrote:   
   > ansaman wrote:   
   >> Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> So humans tell themselves.  As an entire town burns down in summer   
   >>> fires in Calif a couple of years ago and now another this year in BC.   
      
   Wars, earthquakes, drought, famine, disease, pestilance.   
   Business as usual on the surface of a sphere.   
      
   >>> And the ocean rises, and storms are more frequent and more severe.  If   
   >>> you want to notice, that is.  It might help ameliorate things a little   
   >>> if humans could learn to be a little less disruptive.   
      
   Frequently what frequents the surface are dwellers who   
   dwell on how much changes and when. When empires rise   
   and go marching in, from time immemorial on through to   
   the last millenium people saw how bad events were.   
      
   To place blame on agriculture, one could.   
   If only the species remained without industry on scales   
   that were before the eyes of those who saw the writing   
   on the wall, things would not be as they are now.   
      
   >>No more important than one of those little globes.   
   >>Shake it up and there is a terrible blizzard in   
   >>that little world.   
   >>   
   >>Take the longer view. You will be less troubled by all this   
   >>change.   
   >   
   >Unfortunately you and I are inside that little globe and the forecast   
   >(from those who know) is that those flakes aren't going away any time   
   >soon.  I can be untroubled.  That is simply a choice I make.  But I   
   >refuse to believe untruth for any reason.   
      
   A truth could be, the one who shakes the little globe is   
   like the scientist who stirs milk or cream into a cup of coffee.   
      
   See, says the scientist to a friend sitting across the table. See   
   how in the coffee is what is like a galaxy, swirling naturally.   
      
   Yes, says the one to the scientist, and who is doing the stirring.   
      
   To shake a little globe in one's mind, to select which view is   
   mine to mine, is possible. Carving what is Uncarved chips fly.   
      
   - pieces of peace may scatter at sunrise ... ore knots   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)