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   daletx to Ned Ludd   
   Re: An Odd Situation   
   04 May 12 12:32:11   
   
   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: daletx@gnusguy.com   
      
   On 5/3/2012 10:53 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
   >   
   > "daletx"  wrote in message   
   > news:jnvj2001jb6@news6.newsguy.com...   
   >> On 5/3/2012 4:03 PM, Silas Dollar wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:29:44 -0700, Silas Dollar   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>> On Thu, 3 May 2012 13:23:47 -0700, "Ned Ludd"   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>> "Silas Dollar" wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:ltl5q7p2obpekh549tbbib2olh3rl1hdie@4ax.com...   
   >>>>>> I'm posting this as a response to my own previous post on account of   
   >>>>>> the fact that I crossposted it wrong. I was going to tag   
   >>>>>> talk.religion.buddhism on to the newsgroup field thing, but I left   
   >>>>>> out   
   >>>>>> the 'h' that goes in 'buddhism.' So the post didn't show up in that   
   >>>>>> group.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I guess it just goes to show that there's still room for improvement   
   >>>>>> even when you're enlightened like me.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yeah. Tell the church folks that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Thanks for the suggestion, but it's too complicated. I got to tell   
   >>>> them something simple so they'll understand the situation. What did   
   >>>> you tell folks when you was first enlightened?   
   >>>   
   >>> I should change that answer just a bit. It ain't complicated that   
   >>> there's always room for improvement, but you got to understand that   
   >>> these folks is Baptists. They ain't going to look at that answer in   
   >>> the same way as enlightened folks like you and me. They is gonna look   
   >>> at it like it means that I'm trying to tell them to follow some other   
   >>> set of rules than the ones the Lord handed down. Or they're gonna see   
   >>> it as like I'm trying to tell them that all rules is wrong. Before I   
   >>> got halfway through trying to explain, they'd have me run out of town.   
   >>   
   >> Baptists, eh?   
   >> In that case, what you need to do is get yourself a copy of a good ol'   
   >> tune called "Zen Gospel Singing".   
   >> DT   
   >>   
   >   
   > Oh, absolutely perfect!...   
   > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrrlmBmzXs   
   >   
   > Ned   
   >   
   > ("Can't get them singing, more than one note a day.")   
      
   Hey, Bryan Bowers!!!  The last time I went looking, he wasn't up there.   
     And with lyrics on the screen, too.   
      
   Gotta send that to all my old Methodist friends before it disappears again.   
      
   DT   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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