From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-04-05, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
      
   >>> Oh, man, I sympathise with that.  Can I join you in   
   >>> Buddha's garden? He's usually depicted sitting amidst   
   >>> flowery nature; looking very contented in his Nirvana   
   >>> state.   (:-   
   >>   
   >> Illusory individual "I" can't join, being the impediment.   
   >>   
   >> Genuine I Am That I Am (i.e. not "I") has never not been.   
   >   
   > Well then, do you recall the version of you when you were   
   > 21, with everything before you? If you can't give me the   
   > today's self give me yesterday's. You might find that   
   > better to live with.   
      
   -OR- perhaps you could find others who meet your   
   interaction criteria instead of insisting others become   
   previous versious of themselves, or otherwise change to   
   become someones who meet your interaction criteria?   
      
   --   
   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)