XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   > Ummmmmmm wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
   Sometimes people think, or know, the world is in a pickle.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Holding fast to the center, seeing the world as sacred,   
   some people eat a pickle for breakfast.   
      
   Other people don't like pickles.   
   They wish the world were a different place.   
      
   Perhaps they don't think they're in a pickle   
   jar of their own flicker-rate making.   
      
   They know what they know   
   how they know their pickles, picks and peppers.   
      
   Just how many when they picked   
   their jar of pickled peppers is a silly question.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)