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   Noah Sombrero to one   
   Re: I came to the conclusion   
   12 Jul 21 09:19:11   
   
   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 05:02:30 -0700, one  wrote:   
      
   >Noah wrote:   
   >> % wrote:   
   >>> Noah wrote:   
   >>>> % wrote:   
   >>>>> Noahwrote:   
   >>>>>> % wrote:   
   >>>>>>> ansaman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> % wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> it don't mean anything if you can't show it to anyone ,   
   >>>>>>>>> you could know everything and no one would ever know   
   >   
   >Reminds me of the old man, the young man and a star-fish.   
   >   
   >>>>>>>> You are correct. I am a super genius just like   
   >>>>>>>> Wile E. Coyote. I even have a business card that   
   >>>>>>>> says so, but alas, nobody listens to me. That is   
   >>>>>>>> why I turned to joking. It is even OK if they   
   >>>>>>>> laugh at me instead of with me since they are   
   >>>>>>>> still laughing.   
   >   
   >Road runners could be Taoists.   
   >Compared to chickens, who cross the Road,   
   >those who go with the Road, may go farther and further.   
   >   
   >>>>>>> see , here's an example , if he didn't tell us ,   
   >>>>>>> we would never know so he believes he will be read   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Of course, ansa call tell us all kinds of things.  But we might not   
   >>>>>> agree.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> but if he never told then we wouldn't know ,   
   >>>>> there would be nothing to know , he has to ,   
   >>>>> state his knowledge or its useless ,   
   >   
   >Knowing nothing, emptiness, the void, the zone;   
   >in more than one place; what is useless is viewed   
   >as being what is essential for being, being nonbeing,   
   >given: Taoist philosophy texts.   
   >   
   >>>>> its not what you know its who you tell it too   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Oh, no knowledge is never useless.   
   >   
   >Knowing how words work without working, how jnana yoga   
   >is able to be as an other-yoga is, how enlightenment cans   
   >can a strange phenomena and are sold, at times, one is.   
   >   
   >Being free, entirely, from all cares, one wonders   
   >does Mother Nature care. Does the Universe matter   
   >with intent or does such an it simply do as it does.   
   >   
   >Water nourishes all forms of life, without intent.   
   >So may suggest a Taoist text. Utility of the useless   
   >information waves, like a pebble in a pond, reach.   
   >   
   >Without reaching a near to here, skipping stones   
   >without being stoned, for the sake of its own,   
   >one may own forms of knowledge ore knots.   
   >   
   >>>>  It's use is in the use I make of   
   >>>> it.  If I tell you, I gain no usefulness from any use you might make   
   >>>> of it.   
   >   
   >This morning, aye, learned how birds are more than lizards are said   
   >to be dinosaurs on account of their hip bones are connected to their   
   >thigh bones in the same Way. Semantics pertaining to extinction   
   >varies and vary, depending on how a word is used changes   
   >a meaning ever sewn slight a bit in horse's body-p'art.   
   >   
   >>>if you don't tell it you get nothing and i get nothing   
   >>   
   >>So I do share what I have.  Maybe you will get something.   
   >   
   >Once upon a time there was one   
   >and only one single cell. That very one   
   >was the first one, naturally. Until it divided.   
   >   
   >Now, trillions and trillions speak to each other using language,   
   >some known only to their selves as if they had or were, selves.   
   >Private languages vary, naturally, unless they are artificial ones.   
   >   
   >At times, language flowers flower.   
   >Consciousness flowers flower.   
   >   
   >To suppose a necessity exists, that a knowledge flower needs   
   >to be shared, on or off the plant or vine, one could. Yet to know   
   >how the flower flowering for no reason,   
      
   Actually flowers do flower for a reason, if you are the plant doing   
   the flowering.  The fact that flowers seem like simple ornaments for   
   pretentious houses, if the owner feels like ornamenting, is hubris on   
   the part of humans.  Flowers are the way flowering plants do sex.  A   
   very necessary purpose, humans seem to think concerning themselves.   
      
   The dog in your back yard is there for his own reasons, even though he   
   might wag his tail, and lick your hand.  The cat sunning in your   
   window owns you if it decides to do that,  rather than you own it, if   
   you notice carefully.   
      
   Humans are not the center of the universe, which exists for its own   
   purposes.  Humans are allowed to go along for the ride.  Not that the   
   humans know what those purposes are.   
      
   >s one simply does, and   
   >is not separate from an entire universe one may sail to see how   
   >an it is the universe its own self that flowers.   
      
   Humans not being mindless (when they are not mindless) can decide to   
   purposefully do.  Humans exists for their own purposes too, like the   
   dog in your backyard.  You get to decide.  Do you want to purposefully   
   do, or simply do?   
      
   >   
   >- being pointless ... given: aWay ...   
      
      
   Noah Sombrero   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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