XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   > {:-]))) wrote:   
   >> Ummmmmmm wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> At any given moment   
   >>> there is just as much good news as there is bad news.   
   >>   
   >> Probably a whole lot more good than bad.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Maybe there is none of either.  Maybe it's just a horse and a broken leg.   
      
   Such a view sounds very Taoist to me.   
      
   Yet, just for kicks,   
   it could be said that if a horse has a broken leg, it sounds bad,   
   but the other three legs are ignored at the same time.   
      
   There are just as many unbroken legs as there is a broken one.   
   In fact, there are three times as many, which sounds good.   
      
   In any given city, going to work each morning, accidents happen.   
   Some may say, there are no accidents. And yet people usually   
   don't crash their cars on purpose, nor have flat tires, etc.   
      
   Of all the thousands or millions of cars on the road in the city,   
   one accident can slow down traffic in two or more directions.   
      
   That can mean as much good news as bad, or more, or less.   
   For the thousands who left home in time to get to work on time,   
   even if there was a traffic jam, the bit of slowing didn't matter.   
      
   If there were 10,000 who got to work without crashing,   
   and only one who got a flat tire, that's good and bad news.   
      
   Having the flat might have been a good thing, as you suggest,   
   maybe, assuming the might and the maybe of the driver, or   
   it could have meant nothing at all, and was just a flat.   
      
   Perhaps the guy was going to Hiroshima that day.   
      
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