XPost: alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan, alt.zen   
   From: lrudolph@panix.com   
      
   Peter Terpstra  writes:   
      
   >For many people internet had many advantages.   
   >   
   >There are also people as i know who have gone lost on the internet and   
   >wander around in their own lonely mind addicted to the distractions that   
   >internet has to offer. Social lonely because "they" have lost trust.   
      
   So, then, the internet is like life (except maybe, but   
   only maybe, on an unusual scale in some respects)?   
      
   I am thinking of the following passage from Philip K.   
   Dick's note at the end of _A Scanner Darkly_.   
      
      Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision,   
      like the decision to step out in front of a moving   
      car. You would call that not a disease but an error   
      in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it,   
      it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular   
      life-style the motto is ``Be happy now because tomorrow   
      you are dying,'' but the dying begins almost at once,   
      and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a   
      speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human   
      existence. It is not different from your life-style,   
      it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks   
      or months instead of years. ``Take the cash and let the   
      credit go,'' as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake   
      if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.   
      
   _Mutatis mutandis_...   
      
   Lee Rudolph   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)