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|    crazyrainbow to All    |
|    Re: Telepathy    |
|    12 Oct 16 07:31:17    |
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: robert_smrdelj@gmx.de   
      
   Am 12.10.2016 um 07:27 schrieb crazyrainbow:   
   > Am 12.10.2016 um 06:53 schrieb {:-]))):   
   >> crazyrainbow wrote:   
   >>> Am 11.10.2016 um 15:00 schrieb {:-]))):   
   >>>> noname wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> The world does need fixin. Why does the world need fixin if it's   
   >>>>> perfect?   
   >>>>> It's continually generated by a perfect machine. Its operators   
   >>>>> don't know   
   >>>>> how to run the thing so they've brought it around to where its   
   >>>>> product,   
   >>>>> called the world, needs fixin. How do you fix that? Show folks   
   >>>>> how to   
   >>>>> work the machine so their fingers don't get cut off and the present is   
   >>>>> better than the past, for a start.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sounds kinda like the living Master pickle jar in a way.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As for me, personally, when I see what needs fixin   
   >>>> and I can fix what my needs tell me it needs, I fix it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...   
   >>>   
   >>> Maybe when they now start to drop the so "needed" atomic bombs! Maybe   
   >>> tehn you'll probably see the need of fixing, but maybe when you survive   
   >>> and the tumors start to grow on you, maybe thewn it is to late to fix   
   >>> anything! (no need to mention environnmental destruction. if you maybe   
   >>> think it doesn't concern me only maybe the next generation, because now   
   >>> everything is still(!?) under control, isn't that kind od selfish   
   >>> thinking?)   
   >>   
   >> When the Sun expands and consumes Earth,   
   >> all who remain as surface dwellers shall be consumed.   
   >>   
   >> The end of Earth as it now is does not bother me.   
   >>   
   >> Sooner than that, when the next ice age's glaciers crush cities   
   >> that many of the Earthlings live in, if climate change did not   
   >> slow the pace of the ice, by then it will be too late.   
   >>   
   >> Climate change does not bother me.   
   >>   
   >> I do not fear atomic bombs.   
   >> I lived thru that era, in the 50s.   
   >>   
   >> There are millions of things that can be fixed each day.   
   >> I fix what needs fixing when I am able. And if I can't,   
   >> if it bothers me, then it bothers me.   
   >>   
   >> I have had cancers removed.   
   >> And yet, quite often I'm full of joy and not in fear.   
   >>   
   >> When I am concerned, I am concerned.   
   >>   
   >> When I am at the center of a center, I remain   
   >> unconcerned and simply respond.   
   >>   
   >> I used to ride on a see-saw, as a kid.   
   >> We had one in the back yard.   
   >>   
   >> Going up and down is not unusual for me.   
   >>   
   >> Cycling occurs.   
   >> Sometimes on two wheels.   
   >> At times with no hands.   
   >>   
   >> Normally I walk to get around.   
   >> Without shoes. As if that makes a difference.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Do you consider yourself some kind of (pseudo and selfdeclared)   
   > enlightened (selfcentered) "egomaniac", or what should i read out of   
   > your selfcentered posting? Because that's what i read out of it: pseudo   
   > and selfdeclared enlightened selfcentered egomaniac.   
      
   And your pseudo arguments like, that with climatechange, that don't   
   affect me, cause it's far far in the future, shows your selfcentered   
   worldview because you don't think about other human beings at all wether   
   they live now or in the future!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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