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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   tri cycle wrote:   
      
   > On 15/08/2010 11:38 AM, halfawake wrote:   
   >   
   >> tri cycle wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 14/08/2010 11:20 PM, Jigme Dorje wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Aug 14, 10:40 am, Lee Rudolph wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> oxtail writes:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Tang Huyen wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>> In a certain religion, it is asked: what good is it to win the   
   >>>>>>> world and   
   >>>>>>> lose your soul? In the case of the above people, it is possible   
   >>>>>>> that all   
   >>>>>>> their soul is wrapped up with the Church, even in ostentatious   
   >>>>>>> rebellion. Can they get away from it and live in independence from   
   >>>>>>> it?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Tang Huyen   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Not even close.   
   >>>>>> I bet they are much more attached   
   >>>>>> to Money than to the Church.   
   >>>>>> How about you?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I gave away my Church to the churchless!!!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Lee Rudolph   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Churches are good for something.   
   >>>> Someday we may figure out what.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> future rock concert venues?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> in the right church it can be a present rock concert venue, as long as   
   >> you don't mind the elevated lyrics. try a vineyard or other youth   
   >> born-again congregation if they still exist. best rock concert I   
   >> attended was at a New York church with a bunch of ex-hippie ex-druggie   
   >> jesus freak rock musicians. they could really fucking play too. and in   
   >> the pews everyone but me was standing on the chairs. it was bizarrely   
   >> breathtaking.   
   >>   
   >> Robert   
   >>   
   >> - - - - - - -   
   >   
   >   
   > sitting down behind standing asses one might stop.   
      
   I wasn't sitting right behind their butts or anything.  Shit.  Actually   
   I was standing in an aisle when all the hand-waving started.  But   
   seriously, I wouldn't have minded standing behind some of the young   
   female ex-hippie born-again butts.  Now that's something I could really   
   stand behind!       >=)   
      
   Robert   
      
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