XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname requested:   
      
   >Somebody write a definition for "serious conversation" ...   
      
   Serious conversation is   
   what does not occur in newsgroups.   
      
   Except on rare and medium rare occasions.   
      
   Those who subscribe to newsgroups can't be serious.   
   If they were serious, they wouldn't subscribe to newsgroups.   
      
   Yet, seriously, to be less than serious is far less than being totally   
   without being serious.   
      
   Know that no extreme sustains a bridge   
   that Tang builds across the virtual vast nets of Usenet.   
      
   When Zz and the gang went to stop for dinner   
   they had not gone far when a honkless goose got cooked.   
      
   The son asked the father how much to cook it.   
   The father said, son, until it is well done.   
      
   Zz had to laugh.   
   After all, it was Tao.   
      
   Yet the story evolved and revolved around being gnarly.   
   And, to be seriously gnarly can be very good.   
   Since the gnarly tree is good for nothing   
   it is able to grow to its full measure.   
      
   Tao is funny like that.   
      
   - seriously   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)