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XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
From: allendotelldotbarker@gmail.com
On 09/06/2010 01:35 AM, glitch wrote:
> On 09/06/2010 01:33 PM, Allen Barker wrote:
>> On 09/06/2010 12:56 AM, glitch wrote:
>>> On 09/06/2010 10:22 AM, halfawake wrote:
>>>> glitch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 09/05/2010 04:38 AM, ՀͼℵψᏫℜത wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 4, 10:37 am, glitch wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 09/04/2010 10:33 PM, Jigme Dorje wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sep 4, 7:54 am, "absentia obscuria" wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "???????" wrote in message
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> news:b9bbfb40-6c7f-4943-970f-73470370059a@l20g2000yqe.
ooglegroups.com...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sep 4, 3:05 am, Catawumpus wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> zenworm:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> today Halfawakes' sword is very sharp leaving no room to wriggle
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> He impaled himself?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -- Catawumpus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Welcome back.
>>>>>>>>> Did you bring your microscope?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ^~`````````````````````````````
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> it's attached lens to lens
>>>>>>>>> to his telescope. what a
>>>>>>>>> view!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It brings to mind Mister Mxyzptlk, a trickster, in the classical
>>>>>>>> mythological sense, who appears at the mention of his name. If he is
>>>>>>>> tricked into saying his name backwards, he will return to the 5th
>>>>>>>> dimension. Likewise, in the world of usenet, simply not
>>>>>>>> acknowledging
>>>>>>>> or engaging his ego causes it to look elsewhere for fulfillment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Such an entity cannot listen to others or carry on meaningful
>>>>>>>> communication with them. It can only feed its false sense of
>>>>>>>> identity
>>>>>>>> by creating a sense of specialness, separation and superiority in
>>>>>>>> comparison to others. For such an entity to exist, others must be
>>>>>>>> "wrong" and "stupid" or otherwise inferior. It exists in a reactive
>>>>>>>> state, completely dependent on the world of form.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For this god is a jealous god that can bridge no other gods
>>>>>>>> before it;
>>>>>>>> that is how precarious its illusory existence is. What it
>>>>>>>> requires to
>>>>>>>> survive is for the possessed person to be lost in thought, and to be
>>>>>>>> thereby rendered incapable of severing its complete identification
>>>>>>>> with it and thereby dwell in the stillness that is its very source.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But it is a paper tiger because, while dysfunctional. it is
>>>>>>>> illusory.
>>>>>>>> A simple shift in perspective from subject-object conscious voice in
>>>>>>>> the head to the observer of this trickster is sufficient to send it
>>>>>>>> back into the 5th dimension (which, fittingly enough, is an abstract
>>>>>>>> thought construct). You can't fight fire with gasoline. You can only
>>>>>>>> starve it by no longer feeding it with fuel.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> what's my name bitch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "twitchy"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ^~
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> i get that way around lots of words.
>>>>
>>>> because you're such the quiet type.
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>> = = = =
>>>
>>> i am. it took me a long time to adjust to the internet again. it truly
>>> spins my mind compared to the
>>> peace i had without it. it takes will.
>>
>> Ummm...
>>
>>
>>
>
> well it did. it becomes easy after a while. or
> maybe my brain has just got used to having you in it.
>
> ummm what?
Ummm, if you had more peace without the internet, why
stick with it?
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