XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Ummmmmmm  wrote:   
   > On 11/10/2016 9:23 AM, noname wrote:   
   >> dagnabit  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> "Ummmmmmm"  wrote in message news:ntf0lj$qe5$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>   
   >>> On 10/10/2016 4:53 AM, dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Ummmmmmm"  wrote in message news:nt6l7a$6c2$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>>> absfg is so full of angels that it needs an idiot or two to redress   
   >>>>> the cosmic balance.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> doubtful that absfg has either or, but might   
   >>>> you expound on "cosmic balance"  for all of   
   >>>> the kids in the cheap seats? thanks !   
   >>>   
   >>> Sorry, no.   
   >>> I'm not an expounder.   
   >>> It sounds like a joke to me.   
   >>>   
   >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
   >>>   
   >>> well you did mention "cosmic balance" and   
   >>> to me I think that that sounds like a joke. can the   
   >>> cosmos be unbalanced, and can an infinitesimal   
   >>> slice of the cosmic cookie like man actually have   
   >>> the power or the wherewithal to balance it somehow?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Yes, the cosmos can be unbalanced, in fact if it ever stops rebalancing   
   >> itself, it might very well cease to exist.   
   >>   
   >> In an instrument of very high precision, like reality, it takes an   
   >> extremely fine adjustment to keep the whole thing from grinding itself into   
   >> a lump of slag.   
   >>   
   > I'm with you on that one. 100%   
   >   
   > And I would add that a human being, too, is an instrument of very high   
   > precision.   
   > Designed to interface with reality at a very high level of resolution.   
   >   
   > Sometimes whole cultures drift out of sync with reality. They become   
   > lost in a fog of myths, beliefs, fictions, concepts, fairy stories. Then   
   > the individuals that make up the society start to feel anxious,   
   > confused, despairing, frightened, angry.   
   > Each one, individually, needs to be retuned, recalibrated - brought back   
   > into sync with reality. There are experts who can do this.   
      
   Everybody wants to be an expert.  Sometimes none are present, or all the   
   wrong ideas of the experts don't work, and the world has to make a change.   
   Dinosaurs die.  Shit happens.  Ready or not.   
      
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