XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   Noah wrote:   
      
   >It depends on what a person needs to learn.   
      
   Aye, asked my friend who was restoring a car,   
   when he said he needed something for it,   
   if he needed it or wanted it.   
      
   He said he needed it because he wanted it.   
      
   >  Certainly growing up   
   >around water helps, but many people do need to be taught to swim.  And   
   >if you are drowning, you probably won't figure it out in time.  Best   
   >bet is to learn before, and if necessary, get a teacher.   
      
   Growing up, there were backyard swimming pools and   
   across the street three boys about my age, two a little older.   
      
   Learning to swim, I was told, hang on to the side of the pool   
   and go under the water. And so it was I learned to swim   
   under water at first and then learned to dog-paddle.   
      
   Eventually, swimming the width, then the length   
   of the pools under-water was easy for me.   
   The crawl was never my noun-thing.   
      
   Learning how to hold one's breath,   
   to walk and talk might take practice.   
      
   Tao Chia has several tales of how practice makes for a Tao.   
      
   To think an education is part of the equation, a university   
   education, with walls, a room full of students and professors   
   who profess what they learned, a thinker might.   
      
   I liked going to school as an adult.   
   It was fun. And so it went.   
      
   - for a time being ... as an eternal being ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)