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   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   absentia obscuria :   
      
   > every irony meter on the planet just dissolved into dust.   
      
        If you had better judgement you wouldn't have to depend on   
   breakable devices.   
      
   > great mirror work. too bad you're not listening.   
      
        I'm listening more closely than you'd have liked:  closely   
   enough to notice that Jigme's statement Buddhism "does not   
   comment negatively on life here" and his notion it doesn't make   
   any critical judgements are nonsense in light of teachings   
   like the Four Noble Truths, which describe life in the world as   
   suffering and reject "the craving that leads to rebirth."   
   Apparently this makes you uncomfortable, but there it is.  Deal.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)