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   "brian mitchell"  wrote in message   
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   On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:35:31 -0700, Tang Huyen    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 8/21/2016 12:53 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   >   
   >>  "Ned Ludd":   
   >   
   >>>  Frankentang!  Get out the pitchforks and torches!   
   >   
   >> Not at all, not at all. It's the Miracle of Transfiguration   
   >> for the modern age.   
   >   
   >I can to some limited extent remake   
   >myself and reinvent myself, but only so   
   >much and not any more. It is like   
   >pressing an inflated doll: you press   
   >some place in, and another pops out.   
   >One can turn out to be a monster,   
   >unawares.   
   >   
   >"Form is not-self. If form was self, this   
   >form would not lead to affliction, and   
   >it could be had of form: Let my form   
   >be thus, let my form not be thus. And   
   >because form is not-self that it   
   >therefore leads to affliction, and that   
   >it cannot be had of form: Let my form   
   >be thus, let my form not be thus." SN,   
   >III, 66 (22, 59).   
   >   
   >So, everything being not-self, I know   
   >that I should not try too hard to bend   
   >myself to what I like to be, though it   
   >does work to some limited extent.   
   >Given such limited malleability, I   
   >hope that you folks can take me.   
   >   
   >Tang Huyen   
      
   "Out of nine lives, I spent seven   
   Now, how in the world do you get to Heaven   
   Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in ..."   
      
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
      
   "a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."   
   >up on cripple creek   
   >the band   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)