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   halfawake to Tang Huyen   
   Re: Is this real? (was Re: After four ye   
   10 Feb 12 00:10:09   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   Tang Huyen wrote:   
      
   > On 2/6/2012 2:33 PM, halfawake wrote:   
   >   
   >> I came up with the idea a while back that   
   >> you could always trust someone to act   
   >> like they do - then there are less   
   >> surprises.   
   >   
   >   
   > I followed the same strategy, namely   
   > that I could always trust someone to   
   > act like they do - then there are less   
   > surprises. I but still got a surprise.   
   > I expected somebody to be incoherent,   
   > but the following level of incoherence   
   > bested my expectation.   
   >   
   > < phenomenological world, we escape from   
   > the dynamism of life - the real process   
   > by which things come to be and then   
   > pass.>>   
   >   
   > I would expect a negative in the first   
   > part of the sentence, like:   
   >   
   > < of the phenomenological world, we escape   
   > from the dynamism of life - the real   
   > process by which things come to be and   
   > then pass.>>   
   >   
   > But perhaps he manipulates some superior   
   > logic that passes my understanding.   
   >   
   > Tang Huyen   
      
   Probably just left the negative out in the sentence - that's how rumors   
   get started.  I agree it makes more sense that way.   
      
   Robert   
      
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