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|    Re: Is anything sacred anymore?    |
|    09 Oct 16 08:33:52    |
      XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.philosophy.taoism       From: wudao@wuji.net              Tang wrote:              >There are limits that get observed even with people       >usually taken officially to be loose and unrestrained.       >ZZ did whatever he was said to do and not do at his       >wife's death, but he did not stomp her body. That much       >was and is considered sacred, even to blatant       >non-conformists and norm-bashers like him. Jesus said:       >"Let the dead bury the dead", but he did not preach the       >stomping of their bodies.              ... snip ...              Jesus said something about Caesar and rendering.       And about some other people, at the Temple.              Zz spoke of being useless.              Sometimes I wonder about people, what they say,       and why they might form an impression or apply it       to what someone else said at any given time.              When Zz's wife died, he spoke a bit.       What he said might have something to do with Taoism.              He also spoke to some emissaries about a sacred tortoise.              Go and do likewise, might have been what Jesus said.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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